English Translation

53a This is certainly proof of the appreciation of the cultural burglars of the East on the part of the imperial power of one as well as for the technical means of that epoch, a word Henne am Rhyn teaches us in his "cultural history of the German people" (I, p. 228), who in the Pope of that time, New Year's Eve II, before Gerbert, sees "an extraordinary inheritance, of special training in certain technical sciences. "Born around 950 in Auvergne, he came to the school of Bishop Hatto of Vich in the Spanish Mark by the favor of Count Borrell of Barcelona. This was cultivated by these sciences, which the neighbouring Arabs had received from the Late Greeks and had ahead of the Christian West, namely mathematics, astronomy and the theory of music.Erbert also studied in Italy; he then helped the German-Finnish archbishop Adalbero von Reims to raise the school there to the first of the country. He accompanies the Emperor Otto II to Italy and gets to know the learned Otrik from the Magdeburg School. "He produced a sky globe and set it up in such a way that he illustrated the rising and sinking of the stars; moreover, an instrument for calculating the day and night lengths, an armillary sphere with the orbits of the planets and one with the mapping of the constellations, a chart (Abatus), a sundial after observing the polar star by a wire, etc. Uneducated circles therefore considered him a sorcerer.---He came to the pope's dignity in 999 and died in 1003. One becomes of his time, in which on Iceland simple peasants like the "Star Odd" observed the sky, the arrangement of stages in our sense well trust. And also Adalbert was wooded back to Prague after his death, where he had worked and served for its refinement. This happened in the same year that Sassau acquired; – Duke Bretislav and the Prague bishop carried the coffin Adalbertis himself from Rokinitzabache to the castle. In Alt-Bunzlau, Duke Brethislav I built a collegiate monastery in 1045, the year of the death of the hermit Günther. Thus, he extended the route Taus-Prague beyond Prague by 22 kilometres. The Raigern-Prague line was only carried out in the early 12th century by the foundation of the monastery of Postelberg to the Eger. Its full significance as the main train of the Bohemian-Moravian region is only recognized when you enter the dioceses of Neutra and orphans in our map, which were placed on it. Then there are parallels from Neutra to Vienna and from orphans to Raab, where also dioceses were created. After the diocese of Olmüs, a perpendicular leads on this train in Raigern. Also in the complex of the many following monasteries in Bohemia, mainly of the foundation of the Benedictines and hardly beyond the year 1200, the orientation, the location points according to already established terrain and the dimension of the paths shows. And it is not only in Bohemia that cult and profane buildings of the early German era show that there are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, than your school wisdom can be dreamed of! But if what we soberly map, according to the chroniclers, is fantasy – what is science then?