In the 1940s, as the Italian Jesuit priest Father Roberto Busa studied “the verbal system” of Thomas Aquinas, he wondered if, perhaps, there was “any gadget” that could help him develop a concordance — an alphabetical listing of all words written by the 13th century philosopher saint, complete with conjunctions,…
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