Phaenomena Aratea may refer to A work by Aratus 3rd c. BC based on the above a work by Cicero 1st c. BC a work by Germanicus 1st c. BC AD famously, Germanicus, Aratea Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Voss. lat. Q 79 disambig ... more details
For the ancient Greek city see Helike . For the moon of Jupiter, see Helike moon . In Greek mythology , Helike was one of the nymph s who nurtured Zeus in his infancy on Crete http www.theoi.com Ouranos Kronos.html Aratus, Phaenomena 27 and also http homepage.mac.com dykow libpagan h.html . Her name suggests that she was a willow nymph , just as there were oak tree nymphs and ash tree ash nymphs Dryad s and Meliai . Helike was in antiquity also a common proper name for the constellation Ursa Major . ref http www.theoi.com Text AratusPhaenomena.html Classical E text Aratus, Phaenomena , translation by A. W. Mair, G. R. Loeb ref References references Category Nymphs Category Greek mythology Greek deity stub uk ... more details
Attalus of Rhodes lang el was an ancient Greek Philologist grammarian , astronomer , and mathematician , who lived in Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and was a contemporary of Hipparchus . He wrote a commentary on the Phaenomena of Aratus . Although this work is lost, Hipparchus cites him in his Commentary on the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus . Attalus sought to defend both Aratus and Eudoxus of Cnidus Eudoxus against criticisms from contemporary astronomers and mathematicians. Greek astronomy DEFAULTSORT Attalus Of Rhodes Category Ancient Greek astronomers Category Ancient Greek grammarians Category Ancient Greek mathematicians Category 2nd century BC Greek people Category 2nd century BC writers Category Ancient Rhodian grammarians Category Ancient Rhodian scientists de Attalos von Rhodos el es Attalus de Rodas hu Rodoszi Attalosz sl Atal z Rodosa sh Atal sa Rodosa ... more details
the Gauls in 277 BC Aratus set to verse. Here he wrote his most famous poem, Phaenomena Appearances ..., the first, called Phaenomena Appearances , consists of 732 verses the second, Diosemeia On Weather Signs , of 422 verses. Phaenomena File Aratus.gif thumb right Aratus and star signs The Phaenomena appears to be based on two prose works Phaenomena and Enoptron Mirror , presumably a descriptive ... rise to the Phaenomena of Aratus and it appears from the fragments of them preserved by Hipparchus .... The purpose of the Phaenomena is to give an introduction to the constellation s, with the rules ... upon the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus, accompanied by the discrepancies which he had noticed ... . Paul, speaking of God , quotes the fifth line of Aratus s Phaenomena Epimenides seems to be the source ... his offspring ... Phaenomena 1 5 . Authors of twenty seven commentaries are known ones by Theon of Alexandria ... important recent editions of Aratus work Douglas Kidd, Phaenomena , edited with introduction, translation ... Online text Aratus, Phaenomena translated by G. R. Mair, 1921 http www.fh augsburg.de harsch graeca Chronologia S ante03 Aratos ara ph01.html Online text Aratus, Phaenomena, Greek text http www.geocities.com astrologysources classicalgreece phaenomena A prose translation of Phaenomena Book I http ... reads the maiden The Maiden Virgo an excerpt from Phaenomena read by translator Aaron Poochigian ... Faber http ccat.sas.upenn.edu bmcr 1999 1999 09 01.html Review of Kidd s translation of the Phaenomena ... arachne num2 hunter.html Written in the Stars Poetry and Philosophy in the Phaenomena ... Empire Byzantine encyclopedia. http www.atlascoelestis.com Aratus 20Solensis.htm Phaenomena ... more details
In Greek mythology , Cynosura Ancient Greek wikt was a nymph an Oread on Mount Ida , Crete . Cynosura together with Helike mythology Helike nursed Zeus when he was being hidden from his father, Cronus . In gratitude, Zeus placed her in the heavens as the constellation Ursa Minor according to folk etymology and the myth, Kynosoura is from dog s tail. Cynosura is also another name for the constellation Ursa Minor or its brightest star, Polaris . References http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0920.html Cynosura Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Aratus , Phaenomena , 35 Hyginus Astronomica , 2. 2 Servius on Virgilius . Georgica 1. 246 http mythindex.com greek mythology C Cynosura.html Myth Index Cynosura Category Nymphs Category Greek mythology da Cynosura de Kynosura Mythologie es Cinosura eu Zinosura it Cinosura mitologia nl Cynosura ru ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Aristonicus Latin Greek lang grc Aristonikos of Taranto Tarentum was the author of a work on Greek mythology which ancient sources often refer to. ref Photios I of Constantinople Photius cod. 190 Servius ad Aeneidam 3.335 Caes. Germ. in Arati Phaenomena 327 Hyginus Astronomica 2.34. ref He is perhaps the same as the one mentioned by Athenaeus 1.20, but nothing is known about him. Roulez, ad Ptolem. Hephaest . p. 148. References reflist SmithDGRBM Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Aristonicus of Tarentum ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Aristonicus of Tarentum Category Ancient Greek writers Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown Ancient Greece writer stub ca Arist nic de T rent ... more details
Athenodorus of Soli was a Stoicism Stoic philosopher, and disciple of Zeno of Citium , who lived in the 3rd century BC. He was the son of Athenodorus, and was born in the town of Soli, Cilicia , and was the compatriot of another disciple of Zeno, Chrysippus . Athenodorus was the brother of the poet Aratus of Soli , ref Suda, Aratos ref the author of the long didactic poem, Phaenomena . Both brothers followed the teachings of Zeno. He is mentioned in the list given by Diogenes La rtius as the disciple of Zeno. ref name diog1 Diogenes La rtius, vii. ref He may be the dedicatee of the work On Definite Propositions lang el written by Chrysippus. ref name diog1 Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Athenodorus Of Soli Category 3rd century BC Greek people Category 3rd century BC philosophers Category Hellenistic era philosophers from Anatolia Category Stoic philosophers ca Atenodor de Soli el fr Ath nodore de Soles ... more details
The Orion s Sword is an Asterism astronomy astronomical asterism in the constellation Orion constellation Orion . It comprises three stars 42 Orionis c , Theta Orionis Theta , and Iota Orionis under the prominent asterism, Orion s Belt . M42, the Orion Nebula is located in the center. It points in a southerly direction. Cicero ref Richard Hinckley Allen Allen, R. H. 1899 Star Names Their Lore and Meaning Star Names and Their Meanings , G. E. Stechert, New York, p.316. ref and Germanicus ref Hugo Grotius Grotius, H. 1600 Syntagma Arateorum , Leyden. ref , the translators of Aratus s Phaenomena , expressed it as ensis , Latin language Latin for sword . Also, Arabic astronomers called it Saif al Jabb r , the Sword of the Giant. In China, It was called , Punishment, and subordinated to Twenty eight mansions Sieu of Three Stars Chinese constellation Shen . In Japan, It is called Ko mitsu boshi , Little Three Stars . See also Orion constellation Orion s Belt Thornborough Henges Orion Correlation Theory Notes references Category Orion constellation Category Astronomical asterisms astronomy stub it Spada di Orione pl Miecz Oriona zh ... more details
Year nav topic 1760 science The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events. Chemistry Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt investigates inks based on cobalt salts and isolates cacodyl from cobalt mineral containing arsenic , pioneering work in organometallic chemistry . Geology John Michell suggests earthquake s are caused by one layer of rocks rubbing against another. ref cite journal title Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society volume 51 ref Medicine Samuel Auguste Tissot publishes L Onanisme in Lausanne , a treatise on the supposed ill effects of masturbation . ref cite journal first Patrick last Singy title Friction of the Genitals and Secularization of Morality jstor 3704892 journal Journal of the History of Sexuality volume 12 year 2003 pages 345 64 ref ref cite book first Thomas W. last Laqueur title Solitary Sex a cultural history of masturbation location New York publisher Zone Books year 2003 isbn 1890951323 ref Physics Johann Heinrich Lambert publishes Photometria , a pioneering work in photometry , including a formulation of the Beer Lambert law on light absorption. Awards Copley Medal Benjamin Wilson painter Benjamin Wilson Births April 13 Thomas Beddoes , reforming English people English physician d. 1808 in science 1808 June 5 Johan Gadolin , Finns Finnish chemist and mineralogist d. 1852 in science 1852 October 23 Hanaoka Seish , Japan ese surgeon d. 1835 in science 1835 Marie Jeanne de Lalande , French people French astronomer , d. 1832 in science 1832 Deaths September 11 Louis Godin , French people French astronomer b. 1704 in science 1704 References reflist Category 1760 in science fr 1760 en science hu 1760 a tudom nyban mk 1760 sv Vetenskaps ret 1760 ... more details
Paradoxography is a genre of Classics Classical literature which deals with the occurrence of abnormal or inexplicable phenomena of the natural or human worlds. Early surviving examples of the genre include Palaephatus On Incredible Things 4th century BC? the Collection of Wonderful Tales composed by Antigonus of Carystus fl. 3rd century BC , partly on the basis of a paradoxographical work of Callimachus Aratus Phaenomena c. 240 BC , a poem partially concerned with unusual manifestations of weather as signs from the Gods Apollonius paradoxographus Mirabilia 2nd century BC It is believed that the Pseudo Aristotle pseudo Aristotelian On Marvellous Things Heard De mirabilibus auscultationibus contains a core of early material from the Hellenistic period which was then added to over time, including some material that was added in the 2nd century C.E. or even later. ref Laura Gibbs, review of Gabriella Vanotti, Aristotele. Racconti meravigliosi Milano Bompiani, 2007 , http ccat.sas.upenn.edu bmcr 2009 2009 02 22.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.02.22 ref Phlegon of Tralles s Book of Marvels , which dates from the 2nd century AD is perhaps the most famous example of the genre, including in the main, stories of human abnormalities. Phlegon s brief accounts of prodigies and wonders include ghost stories, accounts of monstrous births, strange animals like centaurs, hermaphrodites, giant skeletons and prophesying heads. Phlegon s writing is characterised by brief and forthright description, as well as by a tongue in cheek insistence on the veracity of his claims. Other works of this genre in Greek include Heraclitus the paradoxographer s On Incredible Things 1st or 2nd century AD and Claudius Aelianus On the Nature of Animals 3rd century AD . In Latin, Marcus Terentius Varro and Cicero wrote works on admiranda marvelous things , which do not survive. Notes reflist Further reading Anton Westermann , http books.google.com books?id XIVxAAAAIAAJ Paradoxographoi , Braunschweig ... more details
The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandria n poet s and tragedian s in the 3rd century BC Alexandria was at that time the literary center of the Mediterranean working in the court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus . The name derives from the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster Pleiades star cluster . There are several conflicting lists of the greatest poets of the Alexandrian age traditionally ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace , which include the Alexandrian Pleiad , some with tragic poets, other which include lyric or epic poets. The following members are usually always included in the Alexandrian Pleiad Homerus of Byzantium Homerus the younger , son of Andromachus, from Byzantium, associated with Tragic pleiad Philiscus of Corcyra Lycophron Alexander Aetolus , tragic poet Sositheus of Alexandria, dramatist Aeantides, a poet traditionally associated with the Tragic pleiad The other members are variously Theocritus , who wrote the bucolic poems Aratus , who wrote the Phaenomena and other poems Nicander Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius , who wrote the Argonautica Sosiphanes of Syracuse, tragic poet Later uses The name Pl iade was adopted in 1323 by a group of fourteen poets seven men and seven women in Toulouse and is used as well to refer to the group of poets around Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay in France in the 16th century see La Pl iade . In modern times, pleiad is also used as a collective noun for a small group of brilliant or eminent persons. Sources The Oxford Classical Dictionary. London Oxford University Press, 1949. DEFAULTSORT Pleiad, Alexandrian Category Ancient Greek poets Category Tragic poets Category Ptolemaic court de Tragische Plejade it Pleiadi poeti tragici pt Pl iade alexandrina ... more details
one source date July 2011 IMage LeidenArateaFOlio48vOrion.jpg thumb Folio 58v, Orion constellation Orion the Hunter . Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Voss. lat. Q 79 , also called the Leiden Aratea , is an illuminated manuscript illuminated copy of an Astronomy astronomical treatise by Germanicus based on the Phaenomena of Aratus . The manuscript was created in the region of Lotharingia Lorraine and has been dated to around 816. ref Richard Mostert and Marco Mostert, Using astronomy as an aid to dating manuscripts, The example of the Leiden Aratea planetarium , Quaerendo , 20 1999 248 261. ref It was created for a wealthy patron, possibly Louis the Pious or his wife Judith, daughter of Welf Judith . There are 99 extant folios that are 225mm by 200mm. The manuscript has 35 extant full page miniatures, although at least four are known to be missing. Two copies were made of the manuscript in northern France around the year 1000. Jacob Susius acquired the manuscript in Ghent in 1573. It was owned by Hugo Grotius in 1600 and was used as a source for his edition of Syntagma Arateorum . It was later in the library of Christina of Sweden and was subsequently in the possession of Isaac Vossius . It was acquired by the University of Leiden library along with the rest of Vossius s collection. A digital reproduction of this manuscript can be found on Digital Special Collections DISC of University Library Leiden https socrates.leidenuniv.nl webclient DeliveryManager?custom att 2 simple viewer&pid 1739618 References Walther, Ingo F. and Norbert Wolf. Codices Illustres The world s most famous illuminated manuscripts, 400 to 1600 . Cologne, TASCHEN, 2005. ISBN 3822858528 Reflist DEFAULTSORT Germanicus, Aratea Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Voss. Lat. Q 79 Category Scientific illuminated manuscripts Category 810s books manuscript art stub de Leidener Aratea eo Aratea de Leiden fr Aratea de Leyde it Aratea di Leida ... more details
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Andrew Gordon b. 15 June 1712 N.S 26 June , at Cofforach in Forfarshire , Scotland d. 22 August 1751 N.S 2 September , at Erfurt , in Saxony was a Scottish Benedictine monk, physicist, and inventor. He made the first electric motor . Life Andrew Gordon was born as a son of an old Scottish aristocratic family in Cofforach Scotland and baptized in the name of George. At the age of 12 years he travelled to Regensburg, in order to attend the Benedictine Scottish Seminar under Jakob Regensburg. As a catholic Scot there was no possibility of getting entrance to higher offices in its homeland. In Regensburg he completed a 5 year general education course of study. Abbott Bernhard Baillie made it possible for Gordon to make education journeys to Austria, France and Italy, in particular to Rome. Gordon returned to Regensburg in 1732. On 24 February 1732 he enrolled as a Novice and received the name of Andreas. In the monastery he began with the study of scholastic philosophy under Gallus Leith, who in 1735 at the Erfurter university was appointed as a Professor for Philosophy. Gordon studied intensely with the Dominican Iselbrecher, where he took also his theological disputation. In the same year Andreas Gordon was entered to the priesthood, afterwards he completed law studies at the Beneditine University of Salzburg, where he studied law and theology. In 1737 he completed his study in philosophy and theology with excellence and passed the legal exam with honours. Subsequently, he became a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt. Gordon soon acquired considerable reputation by his works on electricity, among which were his Phaenomena electricitatis exposita 1744 Philosophia utilis et jucunda 1745 Physicae experimentalis elementa 1751 52 . For the sulphur ball of von Guericke 1671 and the glass globe of Isaac Newton some say Hauksbee , Gordon substituted a glass cylinder which made an efficient frictional machine. Two other inventions in physics are noteworthy the ... more details
Yvo Gaukes Latin Yvonis also Yves, Ivo ca. 1660 1738 was a prominent physician who practised at Emden and can be counted among the iatromathematicians of his time. In his best known theoretical publication, Dissertatio de medicina ad certitudinem mathematicam evehenda 1712 he developed a medical theory on the grounds of Cartesianism , proposing sizes and shapes for the main components of the Humorism Four Humors based on these largely philosophical considerations. Gaukes also popularized Species Lignorum , a variant of the numerous Guaiacum wood extracts that had been used to treat syphilis since the late 16th century. Most of Gaukes works in clinical medicine, which were largely published in Groningen and Amsterdam, are limited to case reports. Works by Yvo Gaukes Disputatio medica inauguralis de epilepsia 1695 Yvonis Gaukes 1700 . Praxis chirurgico medica, experimentis propriis, iisque infinitis, viginti sex annorum spatio, et quod excurrit, magno negotio collecta in qua morborum qui, ob vitia succorum sanguinem antecedentium et ipsius quoque sanguinis contingunt, causae, phaenomena atque curationes... describuntur Praxis medico chirurgica rationalis, seu observationes medico chirurgicae, ratiociniis philosophicis illustratae. Eikas prima, continens affectus e faecibus alvinis pituita intestinali, ac sanguine male constitutis oriundos 1700 Dissertatio de medicina ad certitudinem mathematicam evehenda continens certa hujus artis principia, & quomodo ex iis omnia mechanice, & methodo mathematica demonstrari possint. In e quoque habentur diversa, cum aliorum, tum maxime Cartesii & Newtoni de rebus philosophicis sententiae sic, ut justo cuilibet veritatis arbitro apparere queat, uter ex his viris acutissimis felicius rem actu tetigerit 1712 References Brockhaus Allg. Enzyklop die der Wissenschaften und K nste. 55. Theil. Gaukes Gefreiter. p. 1. Leipzig 1852 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gaukes, Yvo ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE O ... more details
essay was entitled Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes ... the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes , ibid. 1760 A Recommendation of Hadley ... more details
For other uses, see Alexander and Alexander Aetolian general Alexander Aetolus lang grc was a Greeks Greek poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry. ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alexander editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 111 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0120.html ref He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron, Aetolia Pleuron in Aetolia , although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria , where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad . ref Suda , s. v. ref ref Eudoc. p. 62 ref ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias , Description of Greece ii. 22. 7 ref ref Scholiast , ad Homer Hom Iliad Il. xvi. 233 ref He flourished about 280 BC, in the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus . He had an office in the Library of Alexandria , and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant. He spent some time, together with Antagoras and Aratus , at the court of Antigonus II Gonatas . ref Aratus , Phaenomena et Diosem. ii. pp. 431, 443, &c. 446, ed. Buhle ref Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegy elegies , epigram s, and cynaedi. Among his epic poem s, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces the Fisherman , ref lang grc , Athenaeus , vii. p. 296 ref Kirka or Krika , ref Athenaeus , vii. p. 283 ref which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena , ref August Immanuel Bekker , Anecdota Graeca p. 96 ref Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant. ref Athenaeus , iv. p. 170, xi. p. 496, xv. p. 899 ref ref Strabo , xii. p. 556, xiv. p. 681 ref ... more details
Achilles Tatius in Greek Language Greek of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek literature Greek writer whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or Novel Individual Novels Discussed romance Leucippe and Clitophon The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon . Life and minor works Very little is known of the author and the little information provided by the sources, represented by Photios I of Constantinople Photius and the Suda which refers to him as Achilles Statius , is often misleading. Modern scholars believe, on the ground of papyri papyrus finds, that he must have lived in or before the late 2nd century. It is generally assumed that he lived and wrote earlier than the Greek novelist Longus . The manuscript tradition assigns him to Alexandria , perhaps correctly but perhaps simply on the basis of the detailed description of the city found in the novel. The claim in the Suda that he converted to Christianity and became a bishop is often argued to be fictional. The Suda also ascribes to the author a work on the sphere in Greek Language Greek lang grc , a fragment of which, professing to be an introduction to the Phaenomena of Aratus , may still be extant in Greek Language Greek lang grc E o . This, however, may be the work of another Achilles Tatius, who lived in the 3rd century. ref name OCD Citation last first author link contribution Achilles Tatius 2 editor last Hornblower editor first Simon title Oxford Classical Dictionary volume pages publisher Oxford University Press place Oxford year 1996 contribution url ref This work is referred to by Julius Firmicus Maternus Firmicus Maternus , who about 336 speaks of the prudentissimus Achilles in his Matheseos libri Math. iv. 10 . The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the Uranologion of the Jesuit scholar Dionysius Petavius , with a Latin translation in 1630. The same source also mentions a work of Achilles Tatius on etym ... more details
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