More Monastic Origins: The Syrian Orthodox Tradition in Turkey Today / Michael Kelly OSB
A recompense for the disadvantage of distance in travelling from Australia to Europe is the ability to stop en route in any number of fascinating places. I thus took the opportunity in September, 1998, while going to Italy for a meeting of the formators of our Congregation, to fulfil an ambition to visit Turkey with its rich early Christian associations. A further incentive was my learning the previous year of extant Syrian Orthodox monasteries in the country dating back to the fourth century (1). Turkey today, with a population of around sixty million, is 99% muslim. Syrians account for...
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366 NEW LIGHT ON OUR NUMERALS. [May, Introductory Note.—It is interesting to see how much new light is constantly being thrown upon chapters in the history of mathematics which have always been more or less obscure. We know, for example, with reasonable certainty the original habitat of our numerals; we know approximately the century in which they were perfected; we have rather positive information as to the century in which they first appeared in European manuscripts; and we are well advised, through the work of Mr. G. F. Hill, as to their variations in form for the last thousand years. It...
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