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The Medieval Church · c. 983–997
The Letters
Gerbert of Aurillac · c. 946–1003
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What it is
The correspondence of the age's best mathematician — hunting manuscripts, arranging the copying of Cicero, explaining the abacus, and steering imperial politics.
Why it lasted
The most learned man in tenth-century Europe, who introduced Arabic numerals and the armillary sphere to the Latin schools and ended as pope.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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