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Book scientist who likes historical, experimental and computational methods to look at human aesthetic behaviour.
Jul 15, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Arabic printing thanks to Ukraine independence - in 1708: Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709) was the Hetman of the Cossack state, the Left Bank and the Dnipro Ukraine. Mazepa’s strategy was aimed at establishing the Ukrainian Church as a state church of the Ukrainian Hetmanate. 1/ Image This could be done by proving to the Oriental patriarchs that the transition of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv to the supremacy of the Moscow Patriarch in 1686 was non-canonical. One of his decisions included the publication of the Gospel in Arabic in Aleppo in 1708. /2