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The ones that made it to Oxford and Paris first came from Toledo.

Albert Magnus and his pupil Thomas Aquinas studied from Aristotle translations made in Toledo.

Nicolaus Copernicus studied from Ptolomy books translated in Toledo.

Roger Bacon studied from translations made in Toledo.

So, stop trying to imply that translations came from Byzantium and not Al-Andalus.



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