His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

At first this interest drew him to the study of Biblical Hebrew, but he studied the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica on his own.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

The beauty and value of many of the Latin Breviaries were brought to the notice of English churchmen by one of the numbers of the Oxford Tracts for the Times, since which time they have been much more studied, both for their own sake and for the light they throw upon the English Prayer-Book.

Cardinality is studied for its own sake as part of set theory.

On many occasions the Chinese studied nomadic cavalry tactics and applied the lessons in creating their own potent cavalry forces, while in others they simply recruited the tribal horsemen wholesale into their armies ; and in yet other cases nomadic empires proved eager to enlist Chinese infantry and engineering, as in the case of the Mongol Empire and its sinicized part, the Yuan Dynasty ( 1279 – 1368 ).

Den and the original members of Ondekoza grew much of their own food, learned carpentry, studied Japanese classical and folk arts, and began a training regimen similar to professional athletes.

The most important magician of the Renaissance was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ( 1486 – 1535 ), who widely studied various occult topics and earlier grimoires, and eventually published his own, the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, in 1533.

Scipio had studied Hannibal's tactics and brilliantly devised some of his own, and finally defeated Rome's nemesis at Zama, having previously driven Hasdrubal, Hannibal's brother, out of the Iberian Peninsula.

These terms are well studied in their own right outside information theory.

Having entered the Inner Temple he took the advice of Samuel Romilly, studied law on his own for a year, and then was taught by George Wood.

His life is best studied in his own Selbstbiographie, in vol.

He later developed his own style of Uechi-ryū karate based on the Sanchin, Seisan, and Sanseiryu kata that he had studied in China.

It is studied in its own right as an object of geometric interest in K-theory.

In the 1940s, he began to take an interest in Schoenbergian Twelve-tone technique ; though he studied with Webern his own idiom was closer to Alban Berg.

The self-educated Mies painstakingly studied the great philosophers and thinkers, past and present, to enhance his own understanding of the character and essential qualities of the technological times he lived in.

Mathematics is interesting in its own right, and a substantial minority of mathematicians investigate the diversity of structures studied in mathematics itself.

As modernism was studied in universities, it was developing a self-conscious theory of its own importance.

The Soviet Union studied nuclear engines for their own moon rockets, notably upper stages of the N-1, although they never entered an extensive testing program like the one the U. S. conducted throughout the 1960s at the Nevada Test Site.

Later on, wind tunnel study came into its own: the effects of wind on man made structures or objects needed to be studied when buildings became tall enough to present large surfaces to the wind, and the resulting forces had to be resisted by the building's internal structure.

As a child Appleton studied piano with Jacob Gimpel and Theodore Saidenberg but preferred composing his own music rather than playing the works assigned to him ( e. g. Chopin, Scarlatti, Prokofiev ).

Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.

The phenomenon was studied both for its own sake and as a means of measuring electrical current.

Our own Milky Way galaxy, where our solar system belongs, is in many ways the best studied galaxy, although important parts of it are obscured from view in visible wavelengths by regions of cosmic dust.

Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right.

The three most studied harmala alkaloids in the B. caapi vine are harmine, harmaline and tetrahydroharmine.

Ternary ( with three states ) logic has been studied, and some prototype computers made.

Haeckel studied under Karl Gegenbaur at the University of Jena for three years, earning a doctorate in zoology, before becoming a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, where he remained for 47 years, from 1862 to 1909.

In condensed matter physics, the three dimensional structure of complicated simulated atomic structures can be studied quantitatively by gathering statistics on graph-theoretic properties related to the topology of the atoms.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

The economic history of Japan is one of the most studied economies for its spectacular growth in three different periods.

After three years he studied the subject in Paris ( University of Paris ), then in 1749 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden with a thesis on blood circulation.

Beruryah however was actually remembered with great respect in the Talmud where she is lauded to have been reputed as such a genius that she studied “ three hundred Halachot from three hundred sages in just one day ” ( Pesachim 62b ).

He then lived for three years in China, where he studied under Luo Changpei at Peking University and under Wang Li at Lingnan University, before returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge under the supervision of Gustav Hallam and then J. R. Firth.

In 1770, he joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, which would eventually lead him to his life-work in India ; after a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, he was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted.

After secondary school Saddam studied at an Iraqi law school for three years, dropping out in 1957 at the age of 20 to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba ' ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter.

He spent three months in Royaumont abbey near Paris, where he met Rita Labrosse, a Canadian from Montreal who studied contemporary literature.

Suzuki tells him that, for the last three years, Butterfly has studied every ship that entered the port.

He studied chemistry at Hopkins for three years.

In 1816 Balzac entered the Sorbonne, where he studied under three famous professors.

Lawrence Kohlberg's ( 1981 ) theory of moral development studied moral reasoning ( how individuals judge situations as right from wrong ) within three stages of young adulthood.

To date, only eleven species have been studied in sufficient detail to enable population estimates, of which three — Opistopatus roseus, Speleoperipatus spelaeus and Peripatopsis leonina — are considered critically endangered, the last being probably already extinct.

Blogger Jeff Jarvis studied the complaints and realized that all but 2 were virtually identical to each other, meaning that the $ 1. 2 million judgment was based on original complaints written by a total of only three people.

Historic crop rotation methods are mentioned in Roman literature, and referred to by several civilizations in Asia and on three major elements: sophisticated systems of crop rotation, highly developed irrigation techniques and the introduction of a large variety of crops which were studied and catalogued according to the season, type of land and amount of water they require.

Even so, the total perturbation does not coincide with experiment, and an empirical spin orbit coupling, named the Nilsson Term, must be added with at least two or three different values of its coupling constant, depending on the nuclei being studied.

However, only three of them, Haseltine, Lowell, and Mason had studied at the college before dropping out in 1994 to move to Nashville, while Odmark still received an honorary degree, despite having attended university in New York.

He then entered a Gymnasium in Kroměříž (), where he studied for three years.

Former Professor of Islamic Studies Denis MacEoin studied documented deaths, both for individuals and for round figures, from Bábí, Bahá ' í, European, and Iranian sources, and confirmed at most two to three thousand.

Having studied Bharatanatyam for three years, in 1936 Rukmini Devi Arundale founded the school Kalakshetra outside the city of Madras to teach it and to promote other studies in Indian music and art.