Numbers and Words

The medieval world was incredibly learned, but how did its great bank of knowledge spread – from Classical Greece to the libraries of the East and from there to the bookshelves of England?

The oldest complete copy of Euclid’s The Elements, Greek, by Stephanos the Clerk, AD 888.

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