{"id":1570,"date":"2020-07-20T15:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T22:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2022-12-08T21:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:13:25","slug":"100-word-book-review-the-abacus-and-the-cross-by-nancy-marie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/2020\/07\/20\/100-word-book-review-the-abacus-and-the-cross-by-nancy-marie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Word Book Review &#8211; The Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Sylvester II is my favorite Pope. (I am not Catholic.) My favorite book about Gerbert of Aurillac is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780553281453\/Ars-Magica-Tarr-Judith-0553281453\/plp\"><strong><em>Ars Magica<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Judith Tarr, but it is a fantasy novel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=30686655071&amp;searchurl=bi%3D0%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dthe%2Babacus%2Band%2Bthe%2Bcross%26vci%3D5143660&amp;cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1\"><strong><em>The Abacus and the Cross<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a non-fiction book that looks just as closely at the world around Gerbert as it does his life. It uses primary sources, including Gerber\u2019s own letters, as much as possible. I found it incredibly relaxing to learn about making books in the 10th century or about Gerbert\u2019s abacus. If you have any interest in the history of science, this is a book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Sylvester II is my favorite Pope. (I am not Catholic.) My favorite book about Gerbert of Aurillac is Ars Magica by Judith Tarr, but it is a fantasy novel. The Abacus and the Cross is a non-fiction book that looks just as closely at the world around Gerbert as it does his life. It uses primary sources, including Gerber\u2019s own letters, as much as possible. I found it incredibly relaxing to learn about making books in the 10th century or about Gerbert\u2019s abacus. If you have any interest in the history of science, this is a book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/9780465009503-us.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MAh-pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erinshanendoah.com\/alienanthros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}