 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
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not so grey in the overberg valley; It may be charming, but it's certainly not twee.(Travel)
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There's always something startlingly refreshing about seeing your own backyard through a foreigner's eyes.
I have been going to Greyton for years - my aunt and uncle own a house there. The oak-lined streets with quaint cottages and cows meandering through the dirt roads give this Overberg town a unique charm, which has ensured that it ranks right up there on our family's list of favourite holiday destinations.
So it was a bit strange for my husband Gavin and I to go to Greyton with an American couple, Wayne and Christie, with whom we're friends.
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Towards the early modern separation of disciplines: From philology to science and history--Joseph Justus Scaliger
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature
; JOESPH SCALIGER. A STUDY IN THE HISTORY...Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Joseph Scaliger is chiefly remembered nowadays...being Isaac Casaubon and Justus Lipsius. Thought of as...Concentrating on the figure of Scaliger, Anthony Grafton has now...
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`MEASURE OF REALITY' EXAMINES PLUMB LINE OF MODERN CULTURE.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...people who drift in and out of the story you've never heard of and will never remember, like John Sacrobosco, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Johannes Schoener, Matt-haeus Schwartz and Richard Swines-head (to choose only those beginning with...
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The measurements that remade the world
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...people who drift in and out of the story you've never heard of and will never remember, like John Sacrobosco, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Johannes Schoener, Matthaeus Schwartz and Richard Swineshead (to choose only those beginning with "s...
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Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...have served us well had he done little more than put before us a remark of a contemporary of Isaac Casaubon, Joseph Justus Scaliger: "Our theological disputes all stem from ignorance of grammar." I suspect, however, that Dead from the Waist...
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Ovid and the 'free play with signs' in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Copernicus and his successors, Gregory XIII introduced his great calendar reform in 1582; the following year, Joseph Justus Scaliger published his epochal De emendatione temporum, which attempted to reconcile classical, biblical, and other...
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WHAT ON EARTH? 01/01/01 or What?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Julian Calendar. It assigns a number to each day, starting in 4713 BC, and was worked out by French scientist Joseph Justus Scaliger.) Islamic: 5 Shawwal 1421 (Based on the movement of the moon around Earth.) Hebrew: 6 Teveth 5761 (A combined...
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questions & answers That glazed expression is your cue to change the subject
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...are stated in terms of the so-called Julian Date (JD), a decimal time system invented by the French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1582. This converts all times to the number of days (and fractions thereof) that have elapsed since noon...
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Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617).(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...illustrious intellectuals in France and Europe: Joseph Scaliger, Henri Estienne, Pierre Pithou, Antoine Loisel...His closest associates and correspondents were Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, and Isaac Casaubon, and in the 1580s he...
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Poetices libri septem. Sieben Bucher uber die Dichtkunst.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...s loss. Next, when Scaliger asked him to try again...Following this judgment, Scaliger requested that de Maumont...letter to his eldest son, Joseph Justus. Unable to work any...Constantin in Lyon. There, Scaliger and Constantin had another...
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Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters: 1581-1655.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...the most influential proponent of the form would be Justus Lipsius, whose Somnium pillories academic pedantry...type in satires by Nicolas Rigault, Daniel Heinsius, Joseph Scaliger, Gaspar Scioppius, and others. De Smet is at her...
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