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Wanderer, storyteller, wise, half-blind, with a wonderful horse.
By Nancy Marie Brown

Showing posts with label Arabic numerals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabic numerals. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Ornament of the World

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Spain doesn't figure much in tales of the Vikings. In The Viking Age: A Reader , which I wrote about in an earlier post (here) , you ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

In Search of the Scientist Pope

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The Abacus and the Cross,  my biography of the Scientist Pope, Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), will be out ...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Pope’s Abacus

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When were Arabic numerals introduced into Western Europe? We used to think it was in the 1100s. But scholars studying the life of Gerbe...
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