The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Carl Benjamin Boyer, in the introduction to his The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development, concepts in calculus do not refer to perceptions.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to his own introduction, he only had three days to review what Cassiodorus had written, meaning that he must also have relied on his own knowledge.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

( According to the prose introduction to the poem Tyr is now one-handed from having his arm bitten off by Loki's son Fenrir while Fenrir was bound.

According to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of thirteen, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden ( b. 1489, d. 1571 ).

According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

According to the theory of the Deuteronomistic history proposed by Martin Noth and widely accepted, Deuteronomy was a product of the court of Josiah ( late 7th century ) before being used as the introduction to a comprehensive history of Israel written in the early part of the 6th century ; later still it was detached from the history and used to round off the Pentateuch.

According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, 1908 – 1993, the introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis Edwardes 1788 – 1866.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

According to another theory, it is believed that the pointed arch evolved naturally in Western Europe as a structural solution to a purely technical problem, concurrent with its introduction and early use as a stylistic feature in French and English churches.

According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.

According to Ann's introduction to the novel Green Darkness, Grace was a practicing Theosophist.

According to Raymond Brown's introduction of his edition Epistle of John, the source of the Comma Johanneum, a brief interpolation in the First Epistle of John, known since the fourth century, appears to be the Latin Liber Apologeticus by Priscillian.

According to Jose Barchilon's introduction to Madness and Civilization,

According to Royall Tyler's introduction to his English translation of the work, recent computer analysis has turned up " statistically significant " discrepancies of style between chapters 45 – 54 and the rest, and also among the early chapters.

According to Aaron Marc Stein in his introduction to the 1977 edition, published by University Extension of UCSD: " At the risk of bringing down on his memory the wrath of the Baker Street Irregulars it must be recorded that Bentley had reservations about even the Conan Doyle originals.

According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a " really important, intense emotional relationship " with someone other than a boyfriend.

According to Robert Osborne of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the film's airing on its weekly segment " The Essentials ," Tracy, weighted down by his growing alcoholism, refused to give MGM an answer.

According to food writer Karen Hursh Graber, the initial introduction of rice to Spain from North Africa in the 14th century led to the Spanish introduction of rice to Mexico at the port of Veracruz in the 1520s.

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

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According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

According to Fitzgerald ( 1977 ) " Reinforcements arrived, and within fifteen minutes these ' vicious brutes ', who for some two hours had terrorized well-armed prison staff, and effectively controlled the prison, had surrendered and been locked up again ".

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

According to Galen, Ptolemy III requested permission from the Athenians to borrow the original scripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, for which the Athenians demanded the enormous amount of fifteen talents ( 450 kg of a precious metal ) as guarantee.

According the United States Census Records, the town contained one-hundred and eighty-seven people in 1950 and just one-hundred and fifteen in 1990 .< ref >" Church Creek ".

According to Article 91, within fifteen days of passage of a bill by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law.

According to the Mozarabic Chronicle, Mūsā crossed the Gaditanum fretum ( strait of Cádiz ) with a large force in 711 and remained in Hispania for fifteen months, but it is unclear from the sources if he came before or after the battle of Guadalete, which was fought by the forces of his subordinates.

According to Article 91, within fifteen days that a bill has been passed by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law.

According to Article 91, within fifteen days that a bill has been passed by the Cortes Generales, the king shall give his assent and publish the new law.

According to this tale, “... one day when Alexander was 15 years old [...] sailing with Hephaestion, his friend, he easily reached Pisa [...] and he went off to stroll with Hephaestion .” That Alexander ’ s exact age is given provides another clue to Hephaestion ’ s upbringing because at fifteen Alexander and his companions were at Mieza studying under Aristotle.

According to Vidocq, within six months, he challenged fifteen people to a duel and killed two.

According to The Case Of The Caretaker's Cat, she is approximately fifteen years younger than Perry Mason.

According to this account, Leif Eirikson ( henceforth named Leif the Lucky ) rescued Gudrid and fifteen men from a skerry, brought them safely to Brattahlid, and invited Thorir and Gudrid to stay there with him.

" According to Rickey, the other fifteen team owners voted to endorse the report ; he was the lone dissent.

According to the vita by Peter Damian, written about fifteen years after Romuald's death, Romuald was born in Ravenna, in northeastern Italy, to the aristocratic Onesti family.

According to eye-witnesses, police ordered the demonstrators to stop and gave them fifteen minutes to disperse, yet opened fire before this time elapsed.

According to Strabo, the country of the Belgae extended along the coast where fifteen tribes were living from the Rhenus ( Rhine ) to the Liger ( Loire ), the « Paroceanites » ( maritime Belgae ).

According to the 17th century historian Anthony Wood Hayman was educated at Exeter College and the college register shows him matriculating on 15 October 1590 ( the register wrongly shows his age as eleven whereas in fact he was fifteen ).

According to the papal nuncio in France fifteen years later, the French King Francis I had referred to Mary as, " my English mare "; and later in his life described her as " a great whore, the most infamous of all ".

According to Ray, it " was a good ten to fifteen years ahead of its time.

According to the city authorities, by 1877 the city had some 8, 000 residents, with merely fifteen foreigners ( presumably, Chinese ) among them.

According to the people who claim to have seen the lights, they may appear at any time of night, typically south of U. S. Route 90 and east of U. S. Route 67, five to fifteen miles southeast of Marfa, at unpredictable directions and apparent distances.

According to the composition pyramid of the population of the Region, those younger than fifteen years old are becoming greater in number than the adult population.

According to Ivor-Campbell ( 1996 ), George moved from the Gotham juniors to the senior team when he was fifteen.

According to Simon Reynolds in his book Rip It Up and Start Again, Levene was an avid progressive rock fan who had served at age fifteen as a roadie for Yes on their Close to the Edge tour.