但那时候，在冶金、数学、天文等学科，我们被遥远的波斯帝国以及后来的罗马帝国落下了数百年的差距。

At the time we were still hundreds of years behind Persian Empire and Roman Empire in such fields as medicine, astronomy and mathematics.

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罗马的数学不值一提。

Roman mathematics hardly warrants mentioning.

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1500年，授数学于罗马，任讲师，或谓教授。1503年返回故国，任波兰佛劳恩堡地方牧师。

In 1500 he had a lectureship or professorship of mathematics in Rome, but in 1503 he returned to his native land, where he was a canon of Frauenburg.

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