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. . And of the scientific side of this revival Italy was the centre. This branch of the movement began, indeed, before the twelfth century. It was in Italy that the Latin world first came into con- tact with the half-forgotten treasures of Greek wisdom, with the wisdom which the Arabs had borrowed from the Greeks and with original products of the remoter East. Of the Medical School of Sa- lerno we have already spoken. It was probably in Italy and through the Arabic that the Englishman Adelard o...f Bath translated Euclid into Latin during the first half of the eleventh century. At about the same time modern musical notation originated with the discoveries of the Camaldulensian monk, Guido of Arezzo. In the first years of the following century the Algebra and the Arithmetic which the Arabs had borrowed from the Hindus were introduced into Italy by the Pisan merchant, Leonardo Fibonacci. . '. '. "* It was to this Arabo-Greek influence that Bologna owed its very important School of Medicine and Mathematics two subjects more closely connected then than now through their common relationship to Astrology.
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