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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
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Summoned up this five volume tome

What is "summoned up" here?

Napoleon was not only everything we know him to be he was a great reader of mechanics and physics books so that he would know not only how to make the Cannonball, he would know where the Cannonball would hit when he shot it. And so he summoned up this five volume tome, read it....

  

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And so he summoned up this five volume tome This means he asked someone (eg a servant or a librarian) to bring him this long five-volume book Here is more background to show where this quote come from. com/r/badhistory/comments/90hl6o/the_continued_bad_history_of_neil_degrasse_tyson /

  • And so he summoned up this five volume tome This means he asked someone (eg a servant or a librarian) to bring him this long five-volume book Here is more background to show where this quote come from.
  • com/r/badhistory/comments/90hl6o/the_continued_bad_history_of_neil_degrasse_tyson /
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And so he summoned up this five volume tome

This means

he asked someone (eg a servant or a librarian) to bring him this long five-volume book


Here is more background to show where this quote come from.

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