Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Rodolphus Agricola" ¶ 21
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Agricola and R
Individuals in photo include ( starting at top ): Cleophas Cisney O ' Hara, Sir Archibald Geikie, Frederick Haynes Newell, Henry Barnard Kummel | Henry Barnard Kümmell, George Burbank Shattuck, Rollin D. Salisbury, Arthur Clifford Veatch, Louis Marcus Prindle, Harry Fielding Reid, Charles R. Van Hise | Charles Richard Van Hise, Cleveland Abbe, Jr., George Willis Stose, Thomas Leonard Watson, Edward Vincent D ' Invilliers, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Frederick James Hamilton Merrill, Louis Agricola Bauer, Arthur Coe Spencer, William John McGee, William Bullock Clark, Rufus Mather Bagg, Frank Hall Knowlton, Robert T. Hill | Robert Thomas Hill, Heinrich Ries, Frank Dawson Adams, Arthur Philemon Coleman, Timothy William Stanton, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Ferdinand Becker, Albert Berthold Hoen, George Otis Smith, James Furman Kemp, Bailey Willis, David White ( geologist ) | Charles David White, Edward Bennett Mathews, Charles Doolittle Walcott, John Wesley Powell, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Joseph Austin Holmes, Charles Willard Hayes, Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Henry Shaler Williams.

Agricola and .,
Raiffeisen Bank Romania has resulted from the merger in June 2002 of the two Raiffeisen Group banks present on the local market Raiffeisenbank ( Romania ) S. A., established in 1998 as a subsidiary of RZB Austria and Banca Agricola Raiffeisen S. A. established in April 2001, after the take over by RZB Austria of the Romanian state-owned Banca Agricola.
In Costa Rica, Vesco donated $ 2. 1 million to Sociedad Agricola Industrial San Cristobal, S. A., a company founded by President José Figueres.
He wrote Latin Literature of the Empire ( 2 vols., Prose and Poetry, 1898 – 1899 ), a History of Classical Philology ( 1902 ) and Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero ( 1902 ); and edited Tacitus Dialogus de oratoribus ( text with commentary, 1894 and 1898 ) and Agricola ( 1899 ; with Germania, 1900 ), and Sallusts Catiline ( 1903 ).
It has the most number of banks such as Banco de Oro, Philippine National Bank, Landbank of the Philippines, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, Banco Agricola, Inc., Mallig Plains Rural Bank and other non-major banks.

Agricola and from
According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.
Tacitus derided Domitian's victory against the Chatti as a " mock triumph ", and criticised his decision to retreat from Britain following the conquests of Agricola.
Turning his attention from Ireland, the following year Agricola raised a fleet and pushed beyond the Forth into Caledonia.
Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.
Several modern authors such as Dorey have argued the opposite: that Agricola was in fact a close friend of Domitian, and that Tacitus merely sought to distance his family from the fallen dynasty once Nerva was in power.
Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus or a dialogue on metallurgy, ( 1530 ) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice ; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.
* " George Agricola " short article from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907
This was the high water mark of Roman territory in Britain: shortly after his victory, Agricola was recalled from Britain back to Rome, and the Romans retired to a more defensible line along the Forth-Clyde isthmus, freeing soldiers badly needed along other frontiers.
Archaeology backed up with accurate dating from dendrochronology suggests that the occupation of southern Scotland started before the arrival of Agricola.
This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author Georgius Agricola is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical context.
Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the name Antinomian, maintaining that while non-Christians were still held to the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone, see also Law and Gospel.
The senator and music-printer Georg Rhau, of Wittenberg, was a close friend of Agricola, whose theoretical works, providing valuable material concerning the change from the old to the new system of notation, he published.
One of the prime issues confronting mediaeval miners ( and one which Agricola explains in detail ) was the removal of water from mining shafts.
Erasmus greatly admired Agricola, eulogizing him in " Adagia " and calling him " the first to bring a breath of better literature from Italy.
This, in turn, derives from " Lupi spuma ", the name Georg Agricola used for the element in 1546, which translates into English as " wolf's froth " or " cream " ( the etymology is not entirely certain ), and is a reference to the large amounts of tin consumed by the mineral during its extraction.
While the machines described by Agricola used geared connections from the shafts to the machinery, by the 19th century, drivebelts would become the norm for linking individual machines to the line shafts.
The modern petrological term basalt describing a particular composition of lava-derived rock originates from its use by Georgius Agricola in 1556 in his famous work of mining and minerology De re metallica, libri XII.
Cogidubnus / Togidubnus is known from a reference to his loyalty in Tacitus's Agricola, and from an inscription commemorating a temple dedicated to Neptune and Minerva found in nearby Chichester.
While at Heidelberg, he received instruction from Dalberg and Agricola.
All designs were evolved from the early Taylorcraft with a sprung skid or tailwheel beneath the fin ( except for a low-wing aircraft called the " Agricola " designed for crop-spraying ; only two of these were completed ).
In 1544 Agricola received an order from the crown to send several talented young men to Stockholm's taxing offices.
On 22 February 1548 Gustav Vasa ordered Agricola to retire from his position as a rector.
The festival is also mentioned by the Finnish reformer Mikael Agricola in his account of what from his point of view was Finnish idolatry.

Agricola and Dialectical
In Dillingen Agricola in 1479 completed his De inventione dialectica ( On Dialectical Invention ), which argued for the precise application of loci in scholarly argumentation.

Agricola and .
16th century technical writers such as Biringuccio, Ercker and Agricola described a variety of cementation brass making techniques and came closer to understanding the true nature of the process noting that copper became heavier as it changed to brass and that it became more golden as additional calamine was added.
Agricola, around 1600, reports the use of borax as a flux in metallurgy.
Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.
Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.
Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( November 5, 1667 – August 8, 1719 ) was a German landscape painter.
* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )
Significant wars were fought in Britain, where his general Agricola attempted to conquer Caledonia ( Scotland ), and in Dacia, where Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against king Decebalus.
The conquest of Britain continued under the command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who expanded the Roman Empire as far as Caledonia, or modern day Scotland.
One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.
Agricola arrived c. 77 as governor of Roman Britain, immediately launching campaigns into Caledonia ( modern day Scotland ).
In 82 Agricola crossed an unidentified body of water and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then.
In the summer of 84, Agricola faced the armies of the Caledonians, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius.
In 85, Agricola was recalled to Rome by Domitian, having served for more than six years as governor, longer than normal for consular legates during the Flavian era.
The relationship between Agricola and the Emperor is unclear: on the one hand, Agricola was awarded triumphal decorations and a statue, on the other, Agricola never again held a civil or military post in spite of his experience and renown.
Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.
In his biographical work Agricola, Tacitus maintains that Agricola was forced into retirement because his triumph over the Caledonians highlighted Domitian's own inadequacy as a military commander.
His views on Domitian survive through brief comments in its first five books, and the short but highly negative characterisation in Agricola in which he severely criticises Domitian's military endeavours.

0.195 seconds.