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Johannes de Sacrobosco, “Textus de Sphaera (‘On the Sphere of the World’)”, Paris, 1230.

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Johannes de Sacrobosco, “Textus de Sphaera (‘On the Sphere of the World’)”, Paris, 1230 AD was a nonfiction science book by mathematician  and astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco. A “university” is a term from the Latin-language meaning: “community of teaching scholars”.  Johannes de Sacrobosco was a scholar associated with the University of Paris. The table below lists the oldest universities still teaching.  291 years after the first university (in Morocco) the University of Paris, FRANCE was founded in 1150 AD.  “Antiquity” is a term that
 
best describes: Johannes de Sacrobosco, “Textus de Sphaera (‘On the Sphere of the World’)”, Paris, 1230 AD as it is based heavily on Claudius Ptolemy, “Almagest” & “Geography”, 150 AD.  “Antiquity” is however, exactly what these early universities considered “learning” relative to the “God of Abraham”.  Abrahamic universities (both Muslim and Christian) in the above table continue to the present day in this modern, Scientific Age .

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