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an insatiable bibliophile—reading everything in sight. The man’s passion for books, and his capacity for absorbing their contents, surpassed anything Langdon had ever witnessed.
the ancient cities of Buda and Pest, which were formally united in 1873.
Human creation and human destiny. They are the universal mysteries.”
the Abbey of Montserrat.”
Been there 🙂
For five hundred years, the outpouring of scientific innovation that flowed from the city was like nothing the world had ever seen,
“Their names are all derived from Arabic,”
more than two-thirds of the stars in the sky have names from that language
Arabic numerals.”
Islamic inventions,”
NADIR, ZENITH, ALCHEMY, CHEMISTRY, CIPHER, ELIXIR, ALCOHOL, ALKALINE, ZERO…
it was once the very heart of human scientific progress.
Built on the site of a ninth-century Moorish castle,
the world were suddenly moving far too fast for him. Perhaps I don’t belong here anymore.
airmail fully formed ‘Adam and Eve’ DNA into the cosmos.”
