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Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.
The standard theological view of world history at the time was known as the six ages of the world ; in his book, Bede calculated the age of the world for himself, rather than accepting the authority of Isidore of Seville, and came to the conclusion that Christ had been born 3, 952 years after the creation of the world, rather than the figure of over 5, 000 years that was commonly accepted by theologians.
This was based on parts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, and Bede also include a chronology of the world which was derived from Eusebius, with some revisions based on Jerome's translation of the bible.
* Blade Runner < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Sebastian was based on Electric Sheep < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Isidore, though Jeter features them as separate characters in The Edge of Human.
Augustine, Hilary, Athanasius, Isidore, Gregory the Great and others, and formed part of the library of which the Breviary was the ultimate compendium.
In 1950, the Lettrists avante-gardists caused riots at the Cannes Film Festival, when Isidore Isou's Treatise on Slime and Eternity was screened.
Isidore of Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects ( Anthemius of Tralles was the other ) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537A. D.
Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.
Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.
Isidore was born probably in Cartagena, Spain to Severianus and Theodora, members of an influential family who were instrumental in the political-religious maneuverering that converted the Visigothic kings from Arianism to Catholicism.
In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".
Isidore was one of the last of the ancient Christian philosophers ; he was the last of the great Latin Church Fathers and was contemporary with Maximus the Confessor.
Isidore was interred in Seville.
Papyrus was made in several qualities and prices ; these are listed, with minor differences, both by Pliny and Isidore of Seville.

Isidore and first
Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.
A Moscovite monk called Isidore used this technology to produce the first original Russian vodka c. 1430.
The male first name " Isidore ", means in Greek " gift of Isis " ( similar to " Theodore ", " God's gift ").
Isidore of Seville was the first to use the word symphonia as the name of a two-headed drum, and from ca.
Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.
Situationist theory first emerged as a smaller tendency within Lettrism, an artistic and literary movement led by the Romanian-born French poet and visual artist Isidore Isou, originating in 1940s Paris.
The first of these to settle permanently in the future Perry County was Isidore Moore.
Broca first become acquainted with anthropology through the works of Isidore Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire ( 1805 – 1861 ), Antoine Étienne Reynaud Augustin Serres ( 1786 – 1868 ) and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau ( 1810 – 1892 ), and anthropology soon became his lifetime interest.
The LI was the first breakaway faction from Isidore Isou's Letterists.
The first photograph of Borobudur by Isidore van Kinsbergen ( 1873 ) after the monument was cleaned up
The first photograph of the monument was taken in 1873 by a Dutch-Flemish engraver, Isidore van Kinsbergen.
Early one morning, Saint Isidore, abbot of the monastery, took Moses to the roof and together they watched the first rays of dawn come over the horizon.
Although numerous glossaries publishing vernacular words had long been in existence, such as the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, which listed many Spanish words, the first vernacular dictionaries emerged together with vernacular grammars.
After years of painstaking research Pokhlyobkin concluded that Russia's first grain-based vodka could have been distilled at the premises of the Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin by a monk called Isidore circa 1430.
However, the earlier Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña by the historian-king Pedro IV of Aragon ( c. 1370 ) includes the basic premises, that Tubal was the first person to settle in Spain, that the Iberians were descended from him as Jerome and Isidore had attested, and that they had originally been called Cetubales and been settled along the Ebro, before changing their name to ' Iberians ' after that river.
A few days later he received a letter from London to tell him Isidore was ill, when in fact he had died exactly on the day of the first appearance of Isidore in John Gerrard's dream.
On his return from Italy, during his first Pontifical Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin, Isidore had a Latin Rite crucifix carried in front of the procession and named Pope Eugene IV during the prayers of the liturgy.
Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae was an encyclopedic tracing of " first things " that remained uncritically in use in Europe until the sixteenth century.
Isidore of Seville ( c. 560-636 ) collected all scientific knowledge still available in his time into what might be called the first encyclopedia, the Etymologiae.
Under the leadership of club president Isidore Odorico, Rennes were among the first clubs to adopt the new statute and, subsequently, became professional and were founding members of the new league.
The term francisca first appeared in the book Ethymologiarum sive originum, libri XVIII by Isidore of Seville ( c. 560 – 636 ) as a name used among the Spanish to refer to these weapons " because of their use by the Franks ".

Isidore and Christian
), Anatho ( Isidore Charax ), Anatha ( Ammianus Marcellinus ) by Greek and Latin writers in the early Christian centuries, Ana ( sometimes, as if plural, Anat ) by Arabic writers.
In all, Isidore quotes from 154 authors, both Christian and pagan.
He was later called two times to guide the Christian community as Patriarch during the turbulent period that followed the patriarchate of Isidore II.
Probably a post-Christian medieval invention, his name may have been borrowed from a ' Bartholomaeus ' who appears in the Christian histories of St. Jerome and Isidore of Seville.
The Commentary also contains one of the oldest Christian world-maps, thought to represent the description given by Isidore of Seville in his Etymologies.
Despite his being an Arian Christian, Isidore of Seville praises Theudis, for he not only tolerated the practices of the native Roman Catholic citizens, but permitted their bishops to meet at Toledo to arrange " those matters which were necessary for the teaching of the Church.

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