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Nechay, Alexander

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Catholic geographer. Born Herfordshire, England, September 8, 1157; died Kempsey, Worcestershire, 1229. Augustinian abbot of Cirencester. Author of the "Liber de Natura Rerum," which contains the first record of the use of the mariner's compass in navigation, and a list of remarkable rivers and lakes.

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Entry for 'Nechay, Alexander'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​n/nechay-alexander.html. 1910.
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