Medieval Science
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The Bumblebee's Language, I Think It's Pretty Fair Safe
In the twelfth century europe had its own translation movement to rival the one in the eighth and ninth centuries in the islamic world. A lot of this knowledge in the atlantic world then percolates back into europe. Sir alhuad isme, whom i mentioned as coming from central asia before, seems to have been responsible for bringing what he thought of as hindu numerals, or indo numerals, indian numerals, a, to bagdad. But they 're actually indian, aren't they? Yes, that's right. It must have been such a thrilling time to have so many fields where you could really feel like you were
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