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Chapters: Roman-Era Alexandrians, Hero of Alexandria, Hypatia, Menelaus of Alexandria, Hesychius of Alexandria, Pamphilus of Alexandria, Pappus of Alexandria, Appian, Orestes, Aelius Herodianus, Alypius, Pope Theophilus of Alexandria, Achilles Tatius, Apollonius Dyscolus, Asclepiodotus of Alexandria, Palladas, Agathodaemon, Mesomedes, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Theon, Aristonicus of Alexandria, Arius Didymus, Ptolemaeus Chennus, Potamo of Alexandria, Nicanor Stigmatias, Apollonius the Sophist, Aelius Theon, Battle of Alexandria, Bathyllus, Eudorus of Alexandria, Seleucus of Alexandria, Aristo of Alexandria, Alexandria Pogroms, Destruction of the Alexandrian Library. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hypatia (Greek: , Hypatía, pronounced in English; born between AD 350 and 370; died March 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Christian mob who falsely blamed her for religious turmoil. Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity, although others such as Christian Wildberg observe that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish until the age of Justinian in the sixth century. A Neoplatonist philosopher, she belonged to the mathematical tradition of the Academy of Athens represented by Eudoxus of Cnidus; she followed the school of the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, discouraging empirical enquiry and encouraging logical and mathematical studies. The name Hypatia derives from the adjective , the feminine form of (upatos), meaning "highest, uppermost, supremest". Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who was her teacher and the last known mathematician asso...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=38375 ... Read more

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Chapters: 70 Births, 71 Births, 72 Births, 75 Births, 76 Births, 78 Births, 79 Births, Hadrian, Zhang Heng, Menelaus of Alexandria, Emperor He of Han, Julia Balbilla, Demonax, Liu Qing, Theon of Smyrna, Marinus of Tyre, Chadae of Goguryeo, Ma Rong, Lucius Vipstanus Messalla, Wang Fu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Zhang Heng (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhng Héng; Wade-Giles: Chang Heng) (CE 78139) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar from Nanyang, Henan, and lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty (CE 25220) of China. He was educated in the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, and began his career as a minor civil servant in Nanyang. Eventually, he became Chief Astronomer, Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages, and then Palace Attendant at the imperial court. His uncompromising stances on certain historical and calendrical issues led to Zhang being considered a controversial figure, which prevented him from becoming an official court historian. His political rivalry with the palace eunuchs during the reign of Emperor Shun (r. 125144) led to his decision to retire from the central court to serve as an administrator of Hejian, in Hebei. He returned home to Nanyang for a short time, before being recalled to serve in the capital once more in 138. He died there a year later, in 139. Zhang applied his extensive knowledge of mechanics and gears in several of his inventions. He invented the world's first water-powered armillary sphere, to represent astronomical observation; improved the inflow water clock by adding another tank; and invented the world's first seismometer, which discerned the cardinal direction of an earthquake 500 km (310 mi)...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=34542 ... Read more

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Chapters: Menelaus of Alexandria, Pope Hyginus, Caius Bruttius Praesens, Mithridates Iv of Parthia, Saint Pausilypus, Lucius Vipstanus Claudius Poplicola Messalla. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Caius or Gaius Bruttius Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus (68 140) was an important Roman senator of the reigns of Roman emperors Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. A friend of Pliny the Younger and Hadrian, he was twice consul, governed provinces, commanded armies and ended his career as City Prefect of Rome. Bruttius life and career left few coherent traces in the literary record, but a number of inscriptions, including his complete cursus honorum, fills out the picture considerably. Pliny, writing to Praesens (Ep. VII.3) refers to him as a Lucanian and an inscription concerning his son has been found at Volceii in Lucania. His father was presumably Lucius Bruttius Maximus, who was Proconsul of Cyprus in 80 and his mother was a member of the Fulvii Rustici (see gens Fulvius), a senatorial family from Cisalpine Gaul. Praesens was born about 68 as can be inferred by the fact that in 88/89 he was a military tribune in Legio I Minervia, when he led a vexillation from Germania Inferior to Pannonia and earned decorations for service on the Danube in Roman emperor Domitians campaigns. Despite this early success his career was retarded thereafter. He served as quaestor in Hispania Baetica (in 92/93 has been suggested), and it may have been at this time that he first became friends with the young Hadrian, but thereafter he retired from public life, perhaps finding it too dangerous in Domitian's murderous last years. Pliny in 107 was urging Praesens not to remain thus on his estates in Campania and Lucania but to return to Rome and the conduct of affairs. His...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9896783 ... Read more

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Oxonii : sumptibus Academicis, 1758. [2],VIII,112p. : ill. ; 8° ... Read more

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