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Opportunities lost

20 Oct 2011

The Abacus and the Cross: the Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Nancy Marie Brown
2010 Basic Books £16.99/$27.95hb 328pp

Instrument of science
Nancy Marie Brown’s The Abacus and the Cross is a book with a hero and a villain. The hero is

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Father Paul Mueller SJ is a historian and philosopher of science at the Vatican Observatory
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