Meanwhile, at the monastery for academically challenged monks: “Guys, it’s seven, the answer’s seven!! A full hand plus two more fingers. How many times are we going to do this ?!?” 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 58r

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Italian, Jesuit mathematician, Giovanno Girolamo Saccheri, who discovered non-Euclidian geometry and didn't realise it, was born 5 September 1667 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/t...

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"Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape. So now you can listen to some of the chirps, trills and clicks that resounded through Earth’s forests 165 million years ago." .

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