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Science 9 December 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5754, p. 1618
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117724
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Response to Comment on "How Science Survived: Medieval Manuscripts' `Demography' and Classic Texts' Extinction"

John L. Cisne

Declercq's rejection of an otherwise well-supported model is based on demonstrably too narrow an interpretation of the use of Bede's De Temporum Ratione and on questionable appreciation of predictive modeling as a complementary alternative to traditional deductive methods. Additional evidence on library holdings further supports previous conclusions regarding the survival of medieval manuscripts.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. E-mail: cisne{at}geology.cornell.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)