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* Alexander Neckam is the first European to document the mariner's compass, first documented by Shen Kuo during the previous century.
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Another version of Romulus in Latin elegiacs was made by Alexander Neckam, born at St Albans in 1157.
Alexander ( of ) Neckam ( 8 September 1157 – 1217 ) was an English scholar and teacher.
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Promythia and epimythia ( introductions and morals ), paraphrases, and imitations were frequent, such as the Novus Avianus of Alexander Neckam ( 12th century ).
Another version of Romulus in Latin elegiacs was made by Alexander Neckam, born at St Albans in 1157.
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A very large number both of couplets and longer passages are borrowed from other writers, often from Ovid or a medieval writer, such as Alexander Neckam, Peter de Riga, Godfrey of Viterbo, or the author of Speculum Stultorum.
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In his Dream Pool Essays (; Mengxi Bitan ) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass, which would be used for navigation ( first described in Europe by Alexander Neckam in 1187 ).
By the 1100s the School had built for itself such a reputation that the famous Norman scholars Geoffrey de Gorham and Alexander Neckam applied for the post of Master.
The school also has a long scientific tradition, stretching back to the Norman era, when Alexander Neckam became master of the school.
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* Alexander Neckam ( 1157 – 1217 ), scientist and teacher ( became Master of the school in later life )
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Mr. Alexander H. Wheelan's Study Helps In Point And Figure Technique tells the readers: `` We assure you that the total number of people using this method of market analysis is a very small portion of the sum total of those operating in the securities and commodities markets ''.
Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.
The writer, whose name is revealed as F. Alexander, shelters Alex and questions him about the conditioning.
During this sequence, it is revealed that Mrs. Alexander died from the injuries inflicted during the gang-rape, and her husband has decided to continue living " where her fragrant memory persists " despite the horrid memories.
With Alexander safely packed off to a mental institution, Alex is offered a well-paying job if he agrees to side with the government.
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Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests " an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it ", not necessarily who penned the text.
* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.
Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.
In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.
The murder of Alexander is assigned by Diodorus to 357 / 356 BC.
Alexander is apparently mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka, as one of the recipients of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remains.
It is important to note that Alexander was the last known ruler of the Gediminids dynasty to have maintained the family's ancestral Lithuanian language.
Alexander is depicted troubled by his lack of direct heirs, having no child with his wife Sybilla of Normandy.
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Alexander became separated from his guides and it is assumed that in the dark his horse lost its footing.
This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.
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Alexander contends that the undeveloped reason in man is material ( nous hulikos ) and inseparable from the body.
It is unlikely that Alexander wrote all of the Quaestiones, some may be Alexander's own explanations, while others may be exercises by his students.
It is likely that the work was not written by Alexander himself, but rather by his pupils on the basis of debates involving Alexander.
On Fate is a treatise in which Alexander argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity.
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