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In reply to the discussion: Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ' [View all]struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)seven hundred fifty years ago, that has been reported from only one side
Since Polo and the Khan came from vastly different cultures and spoke entirely different languages, it is entirely unclear to me how well they could have understood each other, if even they did chat, and even if Polo had a tolerable grasp of the Khan's speech
The time and place is quite far removed from my own, and the cultural distance between myself and either Polo or the Khan is simply enormous, dwarfing the geographical and temporal divide: I don't know how to put myself easily into the mindset of Polo or of the Khan, whose alleged conversation occurred when Roger Bacon was first pushing the importance of experiment in the West, before the kinematic work of the Merton calculators, several centuries before movable type appeared in Europe, before the Renaissance, and before the Reformation. The alleged conversation occurred centuries before Thomas Digges, in England, having attempted (and failed) to measure the parallax of Brahe's "new star" of 1572, proposed abolishing the firmament and suggested that the stars might be suns like ours, but inconceivably far away