Thoughts: 1. I am only comparing students at the end of the Carolingian trivium + quadrivium with students at uni today, NOT how widespread education was/is. 2. I concede their 'mathematics' was limited (arithmetic + geometry; probably projecting my own limited maths onto others
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I mean who even gets to be a “student” in 800?
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And what is being a “student” a century before Fatima al-Fihri founds what’s generally considered the worlds first university, and THREE before the University of Bologna, Europe’s first
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B-b-b-but they "understood the maths of harmonic proportion"! /(no, they didn't of course. they had some churchy superstitions about harmonic proportions.)
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Arthur take it easy on this dude, he’s Australian.
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