Early works of biblical criticism, such as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, as well as works by lesser-known authors such as Richard Simon and Isaac La Peyrère, paved the way for the development of critical deism.

The distinction became particularly pointed and controversial during the Early Modern witch-hunts, with some authors such as Johannes Hartlieb denouncing all magical practice as blasphemous, while others portrayed natural magic as not sinful.

Early authors trying to reconstruct a Latvian pantheon using data from neighbouring regions.

Early science fiction authors, such as Alexander Belyayev, Grigory Adamov, Vladimir Obruchev, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, stack to hard science fiction and regarded H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as examples to follow.

Early authors considered these plants to belong to the family Liliaceae, in part because both their sepals and petals closely resemble each other and are often large and showy like the flowers of the Lily Family., while some more recent taxonomists have placed them in a family Trilliaceae.

Some authors distinguish the two layers as Early and Late Middle Chinese respectively.

Early drafts were written by Lance Parkin, and later ones by Jonathan Blum, although both authors removed their names from the final version ( which was heavily rewritten again ).

The Apostolic Fathers are a small number of Early Christian authors who lived and wrote in the second half of the first century and the first half of the second century.

Early criticism centered on the books ' assumed unreliability ( the First Edition indeed contained some mistakes ), the exclusion of some algorithms, and the authors ' implication, not always correct, that their programs were as efficient and reliable as " black-box " libraries, for example the NAG Numerical Libraries.

Early in the eighteenth century several authors sprung from the people vainly attempted to found a national drama.

French archaeologists have traditionally classified both cultures together under the name Périgordian, Early Perigordian being equivalent to Châtelperronian and all the other phases corresponding to Gravettian, though this scheme is not often used by Anglophone authors.

Early on the authors decided to pursue a more realistic, or naturalistic approach to storytelling.

Early Sardinian authors describe the Sardinian pika as " a giant rabbit with no tail ", and it is believed that the Nuragici, the ancient peoples of Sardinia, viewed them as a delicacy.

Early lives of celebrated British authors, philosophers and poets, inventors and discoverers, divines, heroes, statesmen & c

Early authors justified " distinct " subspecific status of the Cape lion because of the seemingly fixed external morphology of the lions.

Early scholars included Hector Boece, historian and first Principal of the University of Aberdeen ; William Wallace ; and James, John and Robert Wedderburn, authors of The Gude and Godlie Ballatis, one of the most important literary works of the Scottish Reformation.

Early Gold Medal authors included John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams and Richard S.

Early descriptions of the green anaconda by different authors variously referred to the general color as brown, glaucous, green, or gray.

Early Gold Medal authors included John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams, and Richard S.

Early authors, such as Hector Boece ( 1465 – 1536 ), often use the term ' Garnoth ' or ' Garnott ' and may be referring to a single large loch incorporating Kilbirnie Loch and Loch Winnoch ( Barr and Castle Semple Lochs ).

Early literature such as Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico or Xenophon's Anabasis, both ostensibly non-fictional accounts of wars led by their authors, used illeism to impart an air of objective impartiality to the account, which included justifications of the author's actions.

Early experiments are often designed to provide mean-unbiased estimates of treatment effects and of experimental error.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button .< ref >* Patrick Stack.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early endosomes are often located in the periphery of the cell, and receive most types of vesicles coming from the cell surface.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

Early heavy machine guns were often water-cooled ; while very effective, the water also added considerable weight to an already bulky design.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of contemporary artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early science fiction about Mars often involved the first voyages to the planet, sometimes as an invasion force, more often for the purposes of exploration.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Early contact was often charged with tension and emotion, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).