Alexander Neckam (8 September 1157 – 31 March 1217) was an English poet, theologian, and writer. He was an abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his...

were first described in medieval Europe by the English theologian Alexander Neckam (1157–1217 AD). The first literary description of a compass in Western...

reputation that the famous Norman scholars Geoffrey de Gorham and Alexander Neckam applied for the post of Master. Geoffrey de Gorham was later to become...

of Alexander Neckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England. Hodierna is also known as Audierne. According to legend, Richard I and Alexander Neckam were...

from the Aurora. Macaulay also found borrowings "from the poem of Alexander Neckam De Vita Monachomm, from the Speculum Stultorum, or from the Pantheon...

cockerel; other authors added the condition of Sirius being ascendant. Alexander Neckam (died 1217) was the first to say that not the glare but the "air corruption"...

Munrow,(1942–1976), a noted pioneer of Early music, lived in St Albans Alexander Neckam (1157–1217), an English magnetician, poet, theologian, and writer....

works, which are enumerated by Tanner. Alexander may be confused with Alexander Neckam, also called Alexander of St Albans. Both were abbots and writers...

Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius...

pushed back the first mention of the magnetic compass in Europe to Alexander Neckam about +1190, followed soon afterwards by Guyot de Provins in +1205...