Thon Taddeo
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also known as Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott, the scholar, the thon
actantial:opponent / actantial:subjectBrilliant secular scholar whose theoretical work on electrical essences enabled Kornhoer's arc lamp; skeptical of document authenticity but urgently wants to examine the Leibowitzian papers; dismissive of Church control over knowledge.
In A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960)