10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYHISTORY»
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Polyhistory: Studies in the History and Historiography of ...
It frequently concentrates on the subjects in which the honorand has made important discoveries. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of Jaap Mansfeld's scholarly work so far.
Jaap Mansfeld, Keimpe A. Algra, Pieter Van Derhorst, 1996
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Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the ...
1. THE. LITERATURE. OF. POLYHISTORY. /./. Konrad Gesner (1516—1565)
Konrad Gesner (Gessner, Gesnerus), philologist, physician, and naturalist, who
was born in Zurich in 1516 and died in 1565 during the plague, lived most of his
life ...
Giovanni Santinello, Francesco Bottin, 1993
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Geologic Basins: Classification, modeling, and predictive ...
Polyhistory Basins Most large hydrocarbon-producing basins are the polyhistory
type, containing numerous and perhaps varied cycles and tectonic events. The
oil-play controls of single cycles apply in a general way to polyhistory basins, but
...
Norman H. Foster, Edward A. Beaumont, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1987
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Translation of his works
I. The parts or types of curious learning are: (1) the polyhistory of the learned, i.e.
wide reading. This comprises things that are (a) of no moment (b) alien to the
purpose (c) impossible (d) impious (e) uncertain. §3. II. The types of speculative ...
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Interior Cratonic Basins
COMBINE TO MAKE POLYHISTORY BASINS Figure 25. Middle Miocene (
Vindobonian Stage) (after 1988b), also referred. IDENTIFICATION
PARAMETERS 1. Continental or oceanic crust (basement) underlying basin Type
of past plate ...
Morris Wellman Leighton, 1991
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Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction
... physically altered and morally rebuilt, able to "recognize the reciprocal,
intersub- jective nature of experience" (O'Keefe 635) and having acquired a
sense of "polyhistory" (Smith 672). These transformations are possible for several
reasons.
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The Abcs of Creativity, Talent, and Spirituality: Practical ...
Polyhistory is manifested by a high level of memory. A polyhistor remembers all
facts, events, and terms. Such a person is often called a walking encyclopedia.
Creative giftedness is manifested through creating something new, originality of ...
Natalie F. Vishnyakova, 2011
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A new and general biographical dictionary
He also published translations of Seneca's Benefits, in 1577 ; of the Geography
of Pomponius Mela ; the Polyhistory of Solinus, 1587, and of many modern Latin
writers, which were then useful, and suited to the wants of the times. Warton ...
New and general biographical dictionary, Alexander Chalmers, 1814
Moreover, the anecdote about the self-made outfit appears in the context of
survey of the sophist's polyhistory. On the nature of this "much-knowing" we have
a piece of direct information through the only fragment that renders Hippias' own
...
Eric Voegelin, Athanasios Moulakis, 2000
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Integrative stratigraphy: concepts and applications
In addition, they identified more complex, polyhistory basins, which underwent
several different tectonic cycles and basin-modifying tectonic events. Using their
basin classification system, Kingston et al. (1983b) compared major petroleum ...
Robert L. Brenner, Timothy R. McHargue, 1988
