Paolo Dagomari da Prato (1282-1374), known in Latin as Paulus Geometrus, was a noted Florentine mathematician and astronomer, such a maestro dell'abbaco that he gained the epithet Paolo dell'Abbaco.
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Paolo Dagomari da Prato (1282-1374), known in Latin as Paulus Geometrus, was a noted Florentine mathematician and astronomer, such a maestro dell'abbaco that he gained the epithet Paolo dell'Abbaco. Franco Sacchetti called him Paolo Arismetra e Astrologo and Giorgio Vasari Paulo Strolago or Paolo Astrologo (astronomer). He reputedly had 6,000-10,000 pupils over the course of his life, being praised by contemporaries like Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Filippo Villani, and Giovanni Villani in his Cronica.
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