Petrus de Dacia (mathematician)

Petrus de Dacia, also called Philomena and Peder Nattergal (Peter Nightingale), was a Danish scholar who lived in the 13th century.

He worked mainly in Paris and Italy, writing in Latin.

He published a calendar of new moon dates for the years 1292-1367.

In 1292, he published a book on mathematics that contained a new method for the calculation of cubic roots.

He also described a mechanical instrument to predict solar and lunar eclipses as seen from Paris.