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July 7, 2017

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Revision 5.14 “What the West Owes the East” (Medicine and Other Sciences)
In medicine, the Western debt to the Arabs is every bit as great as in the fields already mentioned. The illustrious Montpelier medical school in France, for instance, was founded by Arab doctors fleeing from Spain during the Reconquista. Up to the end of the sixteenth century, the medical curriculum of European universities […]
Did David Whitmer heft the golden plates?
Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2014), cites one of the earliest newspaper reports about the experience of the Book of Mormon witnesses. It appeared — perhaps republished from elsewhere — in the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph on 29 March 1831. The editor of the Telegraph […]
“God is a mathematician of a very high order”
Carlo Rovelli, in his Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre (Penguin, 2017), offers a fascinating though brief portrait of the English theoretician Paul A. M. Dirac (1902-1984), who, he says, is “considered by many to be the greatest physicist of the twentieth […]