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Juan Bautista Villalpando
VILLALPANDO, JUAN BAUTISTA(b. Córdoba, Spain 1552; d. Rome, Italy, 1608), architecture, mathematics, mechanics.Little is known about Villalpando’s life. After entering the Jesuit order in 1575, he studied under Father Jerome Prado, who was writing a commentary on the book of Ezekiel. Evidently... Read more |
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Suidas
Suidas , title of a Greek lexicon-encyclopedia. The name is also applied to its compiler, who seems to have lived in the 10th cent. AD Included in the lexicon are texts from classical Greek works and the commentaries. Though mostly derived from late and corrupt sources, the Suidas preserves much... Read more |
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John Philoponus
John Philoponus (b. Caesarea [?], late fifth century; d. Alexandria, second half of sixth century) philosophy, theology. Most of what is known about Philoponus is found in a few remarks made by him and by some of his contemporaries. He gives the dates of two of his books: his commentary on... Read more |
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Midrash
Midrash [Heb.,=to examine, to investigate], verse by verse interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures, consisting of homily and exegesis, by Jewish teachers since about 400 BC Distinction is made between Midrash halakah , dealing with the legal portions of Scripture, and Midrash haggada, dealing with... Read more |
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Peripatetics
Peripatetics [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. Theophrastus , friend of Aristotle and cofounder with him of the Peripatetic school of philosophy, succeeded him as its head (323 BC) and did much to bring it into favor. Strato of Lampsacus was the... Read more |
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Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey The controversial writings on the American West by American essayist and novelist Edward Abbey (1927–1989) exerted a strong influence on the development of the modern environmental movement in both its mainstream and radical forms. Abbey's voluminous writings, mostly... Read more |
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Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega , 1539-1616, Peruvian historian; son of the Spanish conquistador Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and an Incan princess and therefore called the Inca. He grew up in Peru during the turbulent post-Conquest period. He went (1560) to Spain, where he first served in the army... Read more |
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Yearbook
YEAR BOOKS Books of legal cases, or reporters, published annually in England from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. The development of English common law was based on the law of the case. Lawyers and courts relied on previous court decisions that involved similar issues of law and fact.... Read more |
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Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon c.725-799?, Lombard historian. He received a good education, probably at Pavia, and he learned Latin thoroughly and some Greek. He lived at Monte Cassino and at Charlemagne's court. His first work was a continuation of the Roman history of Eutropius through Justinian. He also wrote... Read more |
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Persuasion
PersuasionDeterminants of successful persuasionCurrent status of researchBIBLIOGRAPHYThe art of “winning men’s minds by words” has occupied the attention of philosophers since long before the time of Plato’s and Aristotle’s commentaries on rhetoric. But not until the twentieth century has there been... Read more |
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DISCOVERING TORAH
...reading this passage we note the degradation of the beginning of the Jewish...bring the first fruits of the soil which You, O God, have given...Torah reading, and to the commentary on it by Rashi. Continuing...successfully ameliorates this discrepancy as it ... |