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 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 el hu Rodoszi Attalosz sl Atal z Rodosa sh Atal sa Rodosa ... more details
victory over the Gauls in 277 BC Aratus set to verse. Here he wrote his most famous poem, Phaenomena ... poems, 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 ..., which gave rise to the Phaenomena of Aratus and it appears from the fragments of them preserved ... of the first. The purpose of the Phaenomena is to give an introduction to the constellation s, with the rules ... left a commentary upon the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus, accompanied by the discrepancies which ... on the Areopagus . Paul, speaking of God , quotes the fifth line of Aratus s Phaenomena Epimenides ...... Phaenomena 1 5 . Authors of twenty seven commentaries are known ones by Theon of Alexandria ... Kidd, Phaenomena , edited with introduction, translation and commentary, Cambridge, 1997. Jean Martin ... links http www.theoi.com Text AratusPhaenomena.html Online text Aratus, Phaenomena translated by G ... text Aratus, Phaenomena, Greek text http www.geocities.com astrologysources classicalgreece phaenomena A prose translation of Phaenomena Book I http www.webcitation.org 5knC6ft6f Archived 2009 10 25 ... from Phaenomena read by translator Aaron Poochigian http spindleworks.com library rfaber aratus.htm ... 01.html Review of Kidd s translation of the Phaenomena by Mark Possanza, BMCR September 1999 . http ... Poetry and Philosophy in the Phaenomena of Aratus by Richard L. Hunter, Arachnion 2. http ... 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 polytonic 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 ... more details
Athenodorus of Soli was a 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 astronomer called it as 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, and so on. Notes references Category Orion constellation Category Astronomical asterisms astronomy stub it Spada di Orione pl Miecz Oriona zh ... 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 . Alexeander was a very intelligent poet who believes that all of man kind was evil and based many of his true feelings of life in poetry. he believed we should all be ruled with absolute monarchy and that no one on earth was born good or should be trusted. all were born evil. 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, a tragedian who wrote 57 plays 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 ... more details
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 a 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
Andrew Gordon b. 15 June 1712, at Cofforach in Forfarshire , Scotland d. 22 August 1751, at Erfurt , in Saxony was a Scottish Benedictine monk, physicist, and inventor. He made the first electric motor . Life Having travelled extensively in continental Europe, Gordon became a Benedictine and in 1737 was appointed professor of natural philosophy in the University of Erfurt . He 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 first is the light metallic star supported on a sharp pivot with the pointed ends bent at right angles to the rays and commonly called the electrical whirl , the second is the device known as the electric chimes . These inventions used to be described in textbooks of electricity the name of Gordon was not always mentioned, though both inventions are fully described by him in his Versuch einer Erklarung der Electricitat Erfurt 1745 . Benjamin Franklin , who is usually credited with the latter invention, simply adopted the German chimes described by Watson in his famous Sequel , 1746 to serve as an electrical annunciator in connection with his experimental lightning rod of 1752. The whirl was an electrostatic reaction motor, the earliest of its kind while the second derives its theoretical importance as the first instance of the application of what came to be called electric convection . See Also List of Roman Catholic scientist clerics References reflist Attribution Catholic wstitle Andrew Gordon Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gordon, Andrew ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 15 June 1712 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 22 August 1751 ... 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 DEFAULTSORT Gaukes, Yvo Category People from Emden germany med bio stub ... more details
phaenomena sive observationes circa planetam Veneris Rome, 1728 , in which he asserted Venus to rotate ... http www.bo.astro.it biblio Vultus Uraniae Face cap4I.html Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena ... more details
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For other uses, see Alexander and Alexander Aetolian general Alexander Aetolus ancient Greek Gr. polytonic 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 polytonic , 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. 5 ... more details
Stefano Pozzi 9 November 1699 1707? &mdash 11 June 1768 was an Italy Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome. Born in Rome , he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper Rocco Pozzi Rocco 1701 74 was an engraver, ref He engraved the masterful map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli , 1748, with its rich enframement, minute views of monuments, and allegories and cavorting putti. http nolli.uoregon.edu artifact.html ref with whom Stefano worked on occasion ref They were jointly responsible, for example, for the allegorical frontispiece, doubtless drawn by Stefano, to Francesco Bianchini s astronomical work, Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa planetam Veneris Rome 1728 http www.bo.astro.it biblio Vultus Uraniae Volto cap4I.html ref Andrea 1718 69 , a carver in ivory Giuseppe Pozzi Giuseppe 1723 65 was also a painter. Stefano Pozzi studied in the ateliers of two best followers of Carlo Maratta , that of Andrea Procaccini , who departed for Spain in 1720, and then Agostino Masucci . In 1732 Stefano was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon of which he was Reggente in 1739 and in 1736 to the Accademia di San Luca , the artist academy of Rome. He worked primarily for Roman churches, painting, for example, the Blessed Niccol Albergati in a chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore eight ovals between the windows c. 1736 for San Silvestro al Quirinale Titi 1763 the refectory of the Chiesa di San Gregorio Nazianeno a Death of St Joseph 1742 for the third chapel of the Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Maria Titi 1763 . He frescoed with a Sant Apollinare in Gloria the vault of Sant Apollinare alle Terme , which was rebuilt by Ferdinando Fuga and rededicated in 1748. ref http roma.katolsk.no apollinare.htm Chris Nyborg, Sant Apollinare alle Terme Titi 1763. ref Among the flock of artists who worked on the Chapel of Sixtus V, he contributed f ... more details
Giovanni Battista Audiffredi born at Saorge , near Nice, France Nice , in 1714 ref http ru.wikisource.org wiki D0 AD D0 A1 D0 91 D0 95 D0 90 D1 83 D0 B4 D0 B8 D1 84 D1 80 D0 B5 D0 B4 D0 B8 D0 94 D0 B6 D0 B8 D0 B0 D0 BC D0 B1 D0 B0 D1 82 D1 82 D0 B8 D1 81 D1 82 D0 B0 ref died at Rome, July, 1794 was an Italian Dominican Order Dominican scholar and scientist. Life He entered the Dominican Order, and soon attracted attention by his taste for books and his talent for the exact sciences. After being occupied in various houses as professor and bibliographer, he was at length transferred to the Dominican house of studies S. Maria sopra Minerva , and was placed in charge 1765 of the Bibliotheca Casanatensis , founded in 1700 by Cardinal Girolamo Casanata . Works Audiffredi published a bibliographical work in four folio, volumes entitled Catalogus bibliotheca Casanatensis librorum typis impressorum, 1761 1788 . The work remains unfinished, not proceeding beyond the letter L, and contains a list of his own publications. Similar works were the Catalogus historico criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV Rome, 1785, quarto , and the more extensively planned Catalogus historico criticus editionum Italicarum saeculi XV ibid., 1794, , which was to give an account of books printed in twenty six Italian cities. Audiffredi did not live to complete the work. The first part, extending to the letter G, contains a short biography of the author introduced by the publisher. Audiffredi s position enabled him to become an expert antiquarian, and he found time to cultivate his mathematical talent and to devote himself to astronomy. He built a small observatory, and at intervals busied himself with observation. The eighteenth century was much occupied with the problem of solar parallax . In 1761 and 1769 the transit of Venus were observed, and Audiffredi contributed to the work in his publication, Phaenomena coelestia observata investigatio parallaxis solis. Exercitatio Dadei Ruffi anagram for ... more details
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