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A medieval polymath amongst us

The archaeology of language Imagine if da Vinci, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Halley, were dropped into our midst and encountered the phrase… Online Presence… Most who read this piece are users of the technology that allows us to be heard; I suspect many can identify with the following

The birth pains of Zero

You’re a Babylonian grain merchant. You have 2 talents of grain in one warehouse, none in the second, 5 in the third. You need to write that down for a transaction that happens tomorrow when you’re not there; being overseen, for gods sake, by dumbo… * your dimmest son-in-law…