ADELM

, Aldhelmus, or Althelmus, a learned Englishman, who flourished about the year 680. He was sirst abbot of Malmsbury, and afterward bishop of Shirburn. He died in the year 709, in the monastery of Malmsbury.

Adelm was the son of Kenred or Kenten, who was the brother of Ina, king of the West Saxons in England. Beside certain books in theology, he composed several on the mathematical sciences &c; as Arithmetic, and Astrology, and librum de philosophorum disciplinis. See Bede's History, lib. 5. cap. 19. He is also mentioned by Bale and William of Malmsbury.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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