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“Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.”

Quote by Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr. was an American historian and philosopher of history, recognized for his work on the environmental impact of human societies. His influential essay, 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,' examines the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. more

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