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Adelbold, like Gcrbert, was accused of magic, and though he did not make 

 a cluck, ho constructed several splendid churches with truly marvellous 

 rapidity, and it was no doubt owing 'o the jealousy of the masons that 

 this accusation was made against him. The only scientific work which 

 Adelbold left was a treatise on the Globe, dedicated to Pope Sylvester II. 



The salutary influence of Gerbert and Adelbold made itself felt in the 

 Catholic world at the approach of the year 1000 A.D., which, owing to the 



Fig. 59. Perseus and Andromeda. After a Miniature of the Fourteenth Century, "Liber do 

 Locis Stellarum Fixarum." Spanish Manuscript. In the Arsenal Library, Paris. 



superstitious ignorance of the people, was looked forward to with dread as 

 destined to usher in the reign of Antichrist. These two illustrious savants 

 protested against the threat of the millennium, and announced in advance 

 the eclipses and comets which were considered to be sinister presages of the 

 end of the world. Instead of recognising their learning and admiring their 

 genius, people believed that they were holding criminal intercourse with the 

 spirits of evil. 



