Why No One Remembers History’s Scientist Pope
“ Otto, inspired by the reverence without bound that he professed for Gerbert, on account of his incomparable scientific knowledge, has elevated him to the papacy.” -Description of the appointment of Pope Sylvester II by Helgaud of Fleury Abbey, France, 1041 Young Gerbert d’Aurillac seems like the last person who would become a household name
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