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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

CHAPTER IV
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Besides this, there were seventy public libraries in Andalusia.

The collections in the possession of individuals were sometimes very extensive.

A private doctor refused the invitation of a Sultan of Bokhara because the carriage of his books would have required four hundred camels.
There was in every great library a department for the copying or manufacture of translations.

Such manufactures were also often an affair of private enterprise.

Honian, a Nestorian physician, had an establishment of the kind at Bagdad (A.D.


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