Perhaps you should expand your thesis by illustrating the extraordinary damage visited on civilisation by the advent of the monotheistic cult of Semitic-Christianity in the late fourth century?
As you appositely mention, Robert Recorde was quite correctly enthralled by the Ancient World of Classical Civilisation and equally appalled by the intellectual squalor of his own era.
A perfect example of the damage caused by ‘The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason’ as it is sometimes called.
MARK CORBY2 hr ago
Perhaps you should expand your thesis by illustrating the extraordinary damage visited on civilisation by the advent of the monotheistic cult of Semitic-Christianity in the late fourth century?
As you appositely mention, Robert Recorde was quite correctly enthralled by the Ancient World of Classical Civilisation and equally appalled by the intellectual squalor of his own era.
A perfect example of the damage caused by ‘The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason’ as it is sometimes called.