"How Science Survived"--Medieval Manuscripts as Fossils
Sharon L. Gilman|Florence Eliza Glaze
Ancient texts often survived from Antiquity through the Middle Ages in form of copies made by dedicated monks before arrival printing press 15th century A.D.; some these are still existence today. But how can we estimate numbers that or went extinct and consequently amount knowledge have inherited past? As
 biologist Gilman historian Glaze
 discuss their fascinating Perspective, a new study by
 Cisne
 helps to solve problem linking paleodemography ancient medieval population dynamics. By considering series extant scientific manuscripts as fossils early textual populations applying models biology, Cisne calculates size age-distributions certain texts.
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