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Cycling enthusiasts will recognize this as also the location of one of the great mano-a-mano contests in the history of cycling, the climb up the Puy de Dôme by Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor in the 1964 Tour de France.
Jean Buridan, “Experiments Demonstrating that Nature Abhors a Vacuum,” in Edward Grant, ed., A Source Book in Medieval Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 326-327.
It seems fair to say that Gerard made it possible for European science to enter the 12th century.
Toby Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
George Saliba, “Seeking the Origins of Modern Science?” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 1 (1999), 139-152; also available at the website http://baheyeldin.com/history/george-saliba-1.html.
Saliba, ibid., website, p. 3.
Toby Huff, “Reply to George Saliba,” website http://baheyeldin.com/history/toby-huff-1.html, p. 4.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 14, 116–122 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-012-0080-2
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