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  1. "In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" historyofinformation.com/detai

    More on the Irish scholar Dúngal irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26

    #history #IrishPhilosophy

  2. In January 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered #DeRerumNatura (written by #Lucretius in the 1st century BC outlining #Epicureanism) in a German monastic library.

    That copy was copied from an earlier 9th century text corrected by an Irish monk, #Dúngal.

    Dúngal also wrote a book explaining to #Charlemagne how two solar eclipses could occur in the same year, and, incidentally, the structure of the #cosmos as he understood it.

    irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26

    #IrishPhilosophy #HistoryOfScience

  3. Among the daughters of the #GreatEarl in that @EngHistRev review academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-a
    was #LadyRanelagh , member of the Hartlib Circle, chemist & thinker, "the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years" (according to Gilbert Burnet)

    irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19
    #IrishPhilosophy