Manuel Bryennios Explained

Manuel Bryennios or Bryennius (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μανουήλ Βρυέννιος; c. 1275 – c. 1340)^[1] was a Byzantine scholar who flourished in Constantinople about 1300 teaching astronomy, mathematics and musical theory.^[2] His only surviving work is the Harmonika (Greek: Ἁρμονικά), which is a three-volume codification of Byzantine musical scholarship based on the classical Greek works of Ptolemy, Nicomachus, and the Neopythagorean authors on the numerological theory of music.^[2] One of Bryennios's students was Theodore Metochites, the grand logothete during the reign of Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1272–1328).^[2] Metochites studied astronomy under Bryennios.^{[1] [2]}

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• Book: Freely, John. Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World). London and New York. I.B. Tauris. 2012. 978-1-78-076051-3.
• Web site: NDSU Department of Mathematics. Mathematics Genealogy Project. 1997. Mathematics Genealogy Project. American Mathematical Society. 19 July 2015.
• Book: Nicolaidis, Efthymios. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization. Baltimore, MD. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. 978-1-42-140298-7.

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