With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

Brygos ( potter signed ), Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

Symbols on Gerzean pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

" As Middle Egyptian evolved into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and finally Coptic ( c. 600 BC ), dj-b-t became tobe " brick.

Pope Honorius IV ( c. 1210 – 3 April 1287 ), born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years, from 1285 to 1287.

Pope Martin IV, ( c. 1210 / 1220 – 28 March 1285 ), born Simon de Brion, held the papacy from 21 February 1281 until his death.

* William of Ockham, English Franciscan friar and philosopher ( c. 1285 – 1347 )

* November 11 – Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia ( b. c. 1285 )

** Bernard VIII, Count of Comminges ( b. c. 1285 )

William of Ockham ( c. 1285 – 1349 ) is remembered as an influential nominalist though his popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Ockham's razor.

Christian and Moor playing chess, from The Book of Games of Alfonso X, c. 1285

# James ( c. 1255 – 1285 ), lord of Xèrica

* Baldwin ( Archbishop of Trier ) ( c. 1285 – 1354 )

Often referred to as the Rucellia Madonna ( c. 1285 ), the panel painting towers over the spectator, offering a visual focus for members of the Laudesi confraternity to gather before it as they sang praises to the image.

In his Rucellai Madonna c. 1285 the viewer can see all of these qualities at play.

* Madonna with Child enthroned and six Angels ( c. 1285 )

Takrur, Tekrur, or Tekrour ( c. 800-c. 1285 ) was an ancient state of West Africa, which flourished roughly parallel to the Ghana Empire.

* Stephen IV of Serbia ( c. 1285 – 1331 ), King of Serbia

Patrick de Dunbar, 9th Earl of March, ( c. 1285 – 1369 ) was a prominent Scottish magnate during the reigns of Robert the Bruce and David II.

Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros of Helmsley, ( c. 1213 – 13 May 1285 ) was an English nobleman.

* Margaret ( c. 1253 – July 3, 1285 ), married in 1273 John I, Duke of Brabant

* Alexander de Brus ( c. 1285 – 1307 ), brother of Robert I of Scotland

* Shams ad-Din Juvayni ( c. 1220s – 1285 ), Persian government administrator

* John II of Jerusalem ( 1259 or c. 1267 – 1285 ), King of Cyprus ( John I ) and Jerusalem ( John II )

The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.

The Dying Gaul c. 230 BC, a Roman copy of a Greek statue commemorating the victory over the Celtic Galatia ns in Anatolia.

Map of ancient Egypt, showing major cities and sites of the Dynastic period ( c. 3150 BC to 30 BC )

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Sunzi ( c. 500 BC )

: Anaximenes of Miletus ( c. 585-c. 525 BC )

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

An early work, She ' iltot (" Questions ") by Achai of Shabcha ( c. 752 ), discusses over 190 Mitzvot — exploring and addressing various questions on these.

* The Shulchan Aruch HaRav of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( c. 1800 ) was an attempt to recodify the law as it stood at that time — incorporating commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch, and subsequent responsa — and thus stating the decided halakha, as well as the underlying reasoning.

The military exploits of the first three rulers — Chandragupta I ( c. 319 – 335 ), Samudragupta ( c. 335 – 376 ), and Chandragupta II ( c. 376 – 415 ) — brought much of India under their leadership.

So the parameters are: a — distance from center C to either vertex b — length of a perpendicular segment from each vertex to the asymptotes c — distance from center C to either Focus point, F < sub > 1 </ sub > and F < sub > 2 </ sub >, and θ — angle formed by each asymptote with the transverse axis.

Lucius Apuleius ( c. 123 — c.

1138 — 1193 ) holding Guy of Lusignan ( c. 1150 – 1194 ) captive in golden chains.

Moses also appears in other religious texts such as the Mishnah ( c. 200 AD ), Midrash ( AD 200 – 1200 ), and the Qur ' an ( c. 610 — 653 ).

* Yale University — D. Sc ( h. c .), 1959