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A surprising history of the index

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The Index Is Not Invented Once

A word index of the bible was discovered in paris and oxford. It tells us something about the culture that led to its creation. A giy mentioned aene as one of the things a rinebug is not invented once it's invented twice. How does that come bot? Well, that's right. I mean, there's a few inventions thae, a few things that are invented twice. The ones that i think of are the light bulb that has urt two people er claiming to have invented it round about the same time. Or mathematical calculus, which whicher getsR discovered, or invented, if we like, round about he same time. When you have

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