Modern life can make it tempting to return to simpler times, like a 16th-century Spanish convent. In the new book Convent ...
While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.
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On a bright Spring day in Tuscany, sometime around 1500 CE, a dowdy merchant in the lovely city of Florence rolled out of bed. He smelled something different in the air. He sprang from his bed, but ...
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