FIRED BY THE examples of Adelard of Bath, Stephen of Pisa, and other pioneers of the studia Arabum, adventurous Western scholars soon began to fan out across the former Muslim lands of Spain, Sicily and southern Italy, and the so-called Latin East in pursuit of newly available works of philosophy...
His printing business was flourishing and he had begun a series of successful commercial partnerships in the other colonies. He was ensconced in the comforting embrace of the interlocking social and intellectual circles provided by the Junto, the Library Company, and the Masonic lodge. Franklin b...
