16th-century big thinker Erasmus was censored
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 11:31
in Mathematics & Economics
More than 400 years before modern-day governments tried shutting down blogs or blocking tweets, two people tasked with censoring a sometimes-critic of the Catholic Church in Renaissance Europe took to their duties in very different ways: one with great beauty, the other with glue and, it appears, a message.