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as Cardano did. Exercise 5. Solve ‘cube and thing equal 500’ (as in the question of the sapphire and the ducats) by Tartaglia’s recipe. 7 On authority Behold, the art which I present is new, but in truth so old, so spoiled and defiled by the barbarians, that I considered it necessary, in order to introduce an entirely new form into it, to think it out and publish a new vocabulary, having got rid of all its pseudo-technical terms lest it should retain its filth and continue to stink in the old way

marriage and treaty. By the sixth century, Christianity was replacing older gods and the organized fabric of the Roman Empire had been eroded and trading patterns disrupted. Although the Church kept administrative structures and learning alive, barbarian encroachments from the north and Saracen invasions from the south posed a continuing threat. The work of undoing the fragmentation of Rome’s imperial domain was undertaken by Charlemagne (742–814), who created a Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently