Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

File: Archimedes naples statue. jpg | Archimedes ( c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC ): described buoyancy, developed formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas, worked extensively with levers, invented the Archimedes ' screw, developed siege engines for warfare to impede the Roman invasion of Syracuse.

Many laws include Lex Canuleia ( 445 BC ; which allowed the marriage — ius connubii — between patricians and plebeians ), Leges Licinae Sextiae ( 367 BC ; which made restrictions on possession of public lands — ager publicus — and also made sure that one of consuls is plebeian ), Lex Ogulnia ( 300 BC ; plebeians received access to priest posts ), and Lex Hortensia ( 287 BC ; verdicts of plebeian assemblies — plebiscita — now bind all people ).

* Archimedes of Syracuse, mathematician, physicist, and engineer ( c. 287 – 212 BC )

However ancient sources contain several accounts of techniques that foreshadow the concepts of forensic science that is developed centuries later, such as the " Eureka " legend told of Archimedes ( 287 – 212 BC ).

Euclid ( c. 300 BC ), Archimedes ( c. 287 – 212 BC ) and Apollonius of Perga ( c. 262 – 190 BC ).

Thirdly, he has invented siege-engines for use against the Romans and the Archimedean screw to raise water ( b. c. 287 BC )

Thirdly, he has invented siege-engines for use against the Romans and the Archimedean screw to raise water ( b. c. 287 BC )

He has spent much of his reign at war with Egypt, recovering much of the territory in Anatolia lost in earlier wars between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties ( b. c. 287 BC )

Year 287 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 287 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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An odometer for measuring distance was first described by Vitruvius around 27 and 23 BC, although the actual inventor may have been Archimedes of Syracuse ( c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC ) during the First Punic War.

The Lex Hortensia of 287 BC extended plebeian laws to the city and all its citizens.

* 287 BC – A secessio plebis leading to the adoption of the Lex Hortensia

Theophrastus ( Greek: ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC ), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

A 1966 proposal called for Route 23 to be extended south as a freeway to Interstate 287 in Piscataway in Middlesex County, running parallel to the Garden State Parkway.

It originally was a 10th century copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes ( c. 287 BC – c.

Painted in 1953, its sale at auction for $ 1. 287 million set a record for a work by a living Canadian artist.

* Satirical newspaper The Onion ran a story entitled " Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches " as Biggio closed in on the record of 287 hit-by-pitches.

Around the same time, perhaps in 287, Persia relinquished claims on Armenia and recognized Roman authority over territory to the west and south of the Tigris.

Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.

However, this was an annoyance to those who depended on floating point performance, as the performance of the 287 was nowhere near that of the 387.

AOL acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for US $ 287 million in cash up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years.

The technology's success caused AOL to acquire Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for US $ 287 million up front and $ 120 million in additional payments over three years.

America Online acquired Mirabilis on June 8, 1998, for $ 407 million ($ 287 million in cash and $ 120 million over a three-year period based on growth performance levels ).

* Kit Carson, Colorado ( on US 287 about south and east of Denver )

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 6, 2011 ' Won In National Elections held on November 6, 2011 was the amount of 1, 569, 287 for 62. 46 % of the total valid votes, what became the Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra in the presidential candidate who won more votes in a Presidential election in the history of Nicaragua, in addition to that obtained a lead of more than 30 % of valid votes doubling the number of votes obtained by radial businessman Fabio Gadea Mantilla on behalf of the Independent Liberal Party ( PLI ) who obtained the amount of 778. 889 votes recorded for 31. 00 %.

The latest report by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ( 2005 ) lists 5450 viruses, organized in over 2, 000 species, 287 genera, 73 families and 3 orders.

** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622. 287 mph ( 1 001. 452 863 km / h ) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

Year 287 ( CCLXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Throughout 287 and into 288, Constantius, under the command of Maximian, was involved in a war against the Alamanni, carrying out attacks on the territory of the barbarian tribes across the Rhine and Danube rivers.

By 1993, the subsidiary produced a year-end $ 1. 287 billion net loss on $ 7. 265 billion in revenue.

Georgia-Pacific operates a gypsum plant in the small community of Acme, located west of Quanah on U. S. Highway 287.

At the party's nomination convention in Albany on April 23, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast ( 75. 33 %).

* Knapp – A village on Pennsylvania Route 287 in the southeast part of the township.

* Sweetbriar – A village on Pennsylvania Route 287 in the southeast corner of the township.

* Crooked Creek – A village on Pennsylvania Route 287 in the eastern part of the township.

* Hammond – A village on Pennsylvania Route 287 in the northeast part of the township, near Hammond Lake.

It was Aristotle ’ s pupil Theophrastus ( 371 – 287 BCE ) in his Historia Plantarum and De Causis Plantarum ( better known as the Enquiry into Plants ) that established the scientific method of careful and critical observation associated with modern botanical science.

His brother-in-law, James Clitherow, also published two volumes of his law reports which added £ 1, 287 to the estate, and in 1782 the Biographical History of Sir William Blackstone appeared.

" Black Education in Civil War and Reconstruction Louisiana: George T. Ruby, the Army, and the Freedmen's Bureau " Louisiana History 1997 38 ( 3 ): 287 – 308.

Rice ( 2006 ), ‘ Deceit and Distraction: Britain, France and the Corsican Crisis of 1768 ’, The International History Review, v. 28, n. 2 ( June, 2006 ), 287 – 315

* Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999, hardcover edition, pages 287 – 293 and page 306, ISBN 0-465-00310-9

Early Music History 18: 287 – 363.

", History 87 ( 287 ), 322-335.