Offers a biography of this mathematician and cleric who readjusted the Gregorian calendar and opposed the Copernican view of the solar system.

Outline details Clavius' work with the compass and a device for measuring the fractions of an angle. Find out about his life and his work.

First man to use the decimal point in mathematics, Clavius is mostly known for his reformation of the calendar.

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