Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes/Problems/39 - De Quodam Emptore in Oriente/Historical Note

== Historical Note on by : Problem $39$: De Quodam Emptore in Oriente == This is numerically the same as a problem given by $\text {c. 900}$, except that the latter uses ducks, hens and sparrows.

discusses the One Hundred Fowls problems at some length, even investigating $4$ and $5$ different types of bird.

Thus it may be that this problem was circulating in both Europe and Arabia for some time before presents it here.

points out that may very well never have seen a camel, unless when he visited Rome.

However, he would of course have read about them in the Bible.