Gersonides
Gersonides or Levi ben Gershon , 1288-1344, Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, called also Ralbag, from the initials of his Hebrew name, b. Languedoc. He wrote scientific works and commentaries on Averroës and the Torah. His Milchamoth Adonai [the wars of the Lord] is an elaborate treatise modeled after the Moreh Nevukhim of Maimonides. It is mainly a systematic criticism of the syncretism of Maimonides. His scientific views remained influential into the 19th cent.
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore c.1580-1632, colonizer. In 1606 he became private secretary...himself a Roman Catholic. The king then created him Baron Baltimore. Calvert had been a member of the Virginia Company and a member of the...
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George Calvert Baltimore, 1st Baron
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George Calvert Baltimore, 1st Baron see Calvert, George .
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George Calvert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Calvert The English statesman George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore (ca. 1580-1632), was the founder of the colony of Maryland in America. George Calvert was born in Yorkshire about 1580, the son of Leonard and Alice Crossland Calvert...
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Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Lord
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Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Lord ( c. 1580–...state from 1619 to 1625, Calvert relinquished office when...wife) charter gave the Baltimore family palatinate powers...Cecilius, the second baron, and Leonard, the first...
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