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In 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted that " Our knowledge of Praxiteles has received a great addition, and has been placed on a satisfactory basis, by the discovery at Olympia in 1877 of his statue of Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, a statue which has become famous throughout the world.
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The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering — yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children — that in an audience he had with
Lenses with apertures larger than 2. 8 are typically known as " fast " lenses, though this has changed historically ( in the past, larger than 6 was considered fast, for example by the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica ).
The town was surrounded by a mud wall with a circumference estimated at six miles ( Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ), pierced by six gates, and protected by a ditch five feet deep, filled with a dense growth of prickly acacia, the usual defence of West African strongholds.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1911 ) mentioned an Aegea, queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean Sea.
This diagnosis is acknowledged by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1911 ), which states: " The most trustworthy statements as to the early existence of the disease are found in an account by the 9th-century Persian physician Rhazes, by whom its symptoms were clearly described, its pathology explained by a humoral or fermentation theory, and directions given for its treatment.
The 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica has only one definition of " Ruhr ": " a river of Germany, an important right-bank tributary of the lower Rhine.
Like the Fabulae the Astronomia is a collection of abridgements, and the style and level of Latin competence and the elementary mistakes ( especially in the rendering of the Greek originals ) were held by the anonymous contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed., 1911, to prove that they cannot have been the work of " so distinguished " a scholar as G. Julius Hyginus.
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The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.
As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.
* All Catholic Church Ecumenical Councils – All the Decrees * Council in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.
The author of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article was critical of the information it contained, believing it should " be received with caution, as the author is prone to exaggerate, and does not confine himself to what came within his own observation.
In the words of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: " In the attempt to govern, the Assembly failed altogether.
The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.
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