The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

* The earliest and best known manuscripts omit the words " in Ephesus ", rendering the phrase simply as " to the saints ... the faithful in Christ Jesus " ( NIV alternative translation ).

The earliest recorded use of the title " pope " in English dates to the mid-10th century, when it was used in reference to Pope Vitalian in an Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

Leonard Cox's The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke ( c. 1524-1530 ; second edition published in 1532 ) is considered to be the earliest text on rhetorics in English ; it was, for the most part, a translation of the work of Philipp Melanchthon.

The earliest verse translation ( by V. L.

The earliest mentions of the Nights refer to it as an Arabic translation from a Persian book, Hazār Afsān ( or Afsaneh or Afsana ), meaning " The Thousand Stories ".

* Notes upon Russia: being a translation of the earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein.

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy ( German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915 ), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

The concept behind translation memories is not recent — university research into the concept began in the late 1970s, and the earliest commercializations became available in the late 1980s — but they became commercially viable only in the late 1990s.

The Samaritan Targum, composed in the Samaritan dialect of Aramaic, is the earliest translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

The earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about 1503 – 1525 of the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed written in the Southern Aukštaitijan dialect.

The complete Tetragrammaton was sometimes rendered differently, an example being the forms Yahuah ( The earliest original translation of his name ).

Caxton's translation of the Golden Legend, published in 1483, and The Book of the Knight in the Tower, published in 1484, contain perhaps the earliest verses of the Bible to be printed in English.

The earliest translation to witness to a Greek base conforming generally to the Byzantine text in the Gospels is the Syriac Peshitta ( though it has many Alexandrian and Western readings ); usually dated to the 4th century ; although in respect of several much contested readings, such as Mark 1: 2 and John 1: 18, the Peshitta rather supports the Alexandrian witnesses.

The earliest translation of the New Testament into an Egyptian Coptic version — the Sahidic of the late 2nd century — uses the Alexandrian text as a Greek base ; although other 2nd and 3rd century translations — into Old Latin and Syriac tend rather to conform to the Western text-type.

Chamisso's earliest writings, which include a verse translation of the tragedy Le Compte de Comminge in which " heilsam " is used in place of " heilig ", show a 20 year old still struggling to master his new language, and a number of his early poems are in French.

The earliest source that pins down a geographical origin for the later Grand Master is the Old French translation of William of Tyre's History of Events Beyond the Sea.

De Bafomet is also the title of one of four surviving chapters of an Occitan translation of Ramon Llull's earliest known work, the Libre de la doctrina pueril, " book on the instruction of children ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the title " pope " in English is in an Old English translation ( c. 950 ) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People:

Although it did not appear in the earliest editions of its English translation, " An Appreciation " was added to later printings, contributed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and earlier published in The Saturday Review of Literature on 14 October 1939.

This was the first annotated Latin translation of Dioscorides ' Materia Medica, and so Barbaro became the earliest of the Renaissance translators of Dioscorides, a practice that saw its golden age in the 16th century.

The earliest known example of Hungarian religious poetry is the Old Hungarian ' Lamentations of Mary ' from the 14th century.

This is the earliest written record extant in the Hungarian language.

His earliest governesses were the wives of a tailor and a vintner from the Dutch settlement ; a sailor called Norman taught him the rudiments of navigation ; and, when he grew older, he was placed under the care of a Hungarian refugee, Janos Zeikin, who seems to have been a conscientious teacher.

However, the earliest illustrations of the Hungarian ' Kochi-wagon ' do not indicate any suspension, and often the use of three horses in harness.

The earliest documentation of Hungarian music dates from the introduction of Gregorian chant in the 11th century.

The castles of Veszprém, Esztergom and Székesfehérvár, were the earliest Hungarian stone castles, which had already been built during the reign of High Prince Géza, a time when motte castles were much more common.

No written evidence remains of the earliest Hungarian literature, but through Hungarian folktales and folk songs elements have survived that can be traced back to pagan times.

In the earliest times Hungarian language was written in a runic-like script ( although it was not used for literature purposes in the modern interpretation ).

Clusius, as he was known to his contemporaries, published two major original works: his Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia ( 1576 )— is one of the earliest books on Spanish flora — and his Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae ( 1583 ) is the first book on Austrian and Hungarian alpine flora.

In the earliest times, Hungarian language was written in a runic-like script ( although it was not used for literature purposes in the modern interpretation ).

The earliest microplate was created in 1951 by a Hungarian, Dr. Gyula Takátsy, who machined 6 rows of 12 " wells " in Lucite.

In the earliest Hungarian sources, the title name is only recorded as a personal name ( Gyyla, Geula, Gyla, Iula ).

Emese's Dream, the legend concerning the conception of Prince Álmos, is one of the earliest known tales from Hungarian history.

The Pray Codex is a collection of " liturgical melodies ... in neumatic notation ... containing among other things the earliest written record extant of the Hungarian language, the Funeral Oration, ... independent forms of notation and even independent melodies ( Hymn to Mary )".

The earliest documented instrumentation in Hungarian music dates back to the whistle in 1222, followed by the koboz in 1326, the bugle in 1355, the fiddle in 1358, the bagpipe in 1402, the lute in 1427 and the trumpet in 1428.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

The earliest design ( dubbed kapala in Polish, more properly called " kapsel legitymacyjny " or " ID cap ") consisted of a tin-made 30 × 50 mm rectangular frame and a rectangular cap fitting into the frame.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing-the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in temple rooms in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC.

Some of the earliest origins of minestrone soup pre-date the expansion of the Latin tribes of Rome into what became the Roman Republic and later Roman Empire, when the local diet was " vegetarian by necessity " and consisted mostly of vegetables, such as onions, lentils, cabbage, garlic, fava beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, and turnips.

The earliest Christian church consisted of Jews in the first century who had known Jesus Christ and heard his teachings.

The earliest signs were often not painted but consisted, for example, of paraphernalia connected with the brewing process such as bunches of hops or brewing implements, which were suspended above the door of the pub.

The earliest way of writing qi consisted of three wavy lines, used to represent one's breath seen on a cold day.

The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones ( guitar, harmonica ), Ian Stewart ( piano ), Mick Jagger ( lead vocals, harmonica ), Keith Richards ( guitar, vocals ), Bill Wyman ( bass ) and Charlie Watts ( drums ).

According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing likely consisted of fur, leather, leaves, or grass that were draped, wrapped, or tied around the body.

The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood.

The Clark County administration consisted of various officers and a 3 man board of commissioners in its earliest days.

The earliest businesses consisted of a sawmill, a general store, and churches.

In the earliest days, osechi consisted only of nimono, boiled vegetables with soy sauce and sugar or mirin.

The earliest episodes consisted of introducing the troubled characters and did not show any of the supernatural elements that later made the show a hit.

The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and a cello, a grouping which had grown out of the Baroque trio sonata, while later string trios more commonly are scored for violin, viola, and cello ( Tilmouth and Smallman 2001 ).

The earliest model, the 1924 MG 14 / 28 consisted of a new sporting body on a Morris Oxford chassis.

The earliest crystal receivers did not have a tuned circuit at all, and just consisted of a crystal detector connected between the antenna and ground, with an earphone across it.

In antiquity, the earliest foot supports consisted of riders placing their feet under a girth or using a simple toe loop.

It consisted of " Late Last Night ", four re-arranged and re-recorded tracks from the New Zealand / Australian Mental Notes LP, three new songs, and a new version of one of the earliest Judd – Finn compositions, " 129 ", retitled " Matinee Idyll ( 129 )".

The earliest instant camera, which consisted of a camera and portable darkroom in a single compartment, was invented in 1923 by Samuel Shlafrock.

The earliest paintings were not representational but ornamental ; they consisted of patterns or designs rather than pictures.

Imagery on the earliest denarii usually consisted of the bust of Roma on the obverse, and a deity driving a biga or quadriga on the reverse.