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relative speed of
travel of the Moon, Sun and stars.
Better known is the De
mensura Orbis terrae, a
summary of geography,
giving concise information about...
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Protagoras (/proʊˈtæɡərəs, -æs/ proh-TAG-ər-əs, -****; Gr****: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Gr****
philosopher and
rhetorical theorist...
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Scotland of very
similar character to the
Faroe Islands in his work De
mensura orbis terrae ("Of the
measure of the
worlds of the earth"). In this text...
- Protagoras'
focus on
human reasoning (as
encapsulated in the
motto homo
mensura: "man is the
measure of all things"), but modified: it is our reasoning...
- The
result had
already been
given in 1711 by
Abraham de
Moivre in De
Mensura Sortis seu; de
Probabilitate Eventuum in
Ludis a Casu
Fortuito Pendentibus...
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dictum sit
altum videtur (whatever said in Latin,
seems profound)
omnia in
mensura et
numero et
pondere disposuisti Thou hast
ordered all
things in measure...
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Mensura subregion is a
subregion in the Gash
Barka region of
western Eritrea. The
capital lies at
Mensura. Awate.com:
Martyr Statistics 15°28′31″N 38°16′07″E...
- Nile was
absorbed into the new city of Fustat. A
geography treatise De
Mensura Orbis Terrae written by the
Irish monk
Dicuil (born late 8th century) reports...
- 1738 copy of
Hydrodynamica In his 1738 book
Specimen theoriae novae de
mensura sortis (Exposition of a New
Theory on the
Measurement of Risk), Bernoulli...
- (De monade,
numero et
figura liber consequens quinque de
minimo magno et
mensura), Frankfurt, 1591
Wonders of Life by
Ernst Haeckel. The
Evolution of Man:...
