Gersonides wrote Maaseh Hoshev in 1321 dealing with arithmetical operations including extraction of square and cube roots, various algebraic identities, certain sums including sums of consecutive integers, squares, and cubes, binomial coefficients, and simple combinatorial identities.

The title Maaseh Hoshev literally means a Work of Calculation, but it is also a pun on a biblical phrase meaning " clever work ".

A major text in this tradition is the Maaseh Merkabah ( Works of the Chariot ).

Maaseh Merkabah ( Working of the Chariot ) is the modern name given to a hechalot text, discovered by scholar Gershom Scholem.

In addition there are many smaller and fragmentary manuscripts that seem to belong to this genre, but their exact relationship to Maaseh Merkabah mysticism and to each other is often not clear ( Dennis, 2007, 199-120 ).

and his main purpose is to expound on Maaseh Bereishit and Maaseh Merkavah, works of Jewish mysticism regarding the theology of creation from Genesis and the passage of the Chariot from Ezekiel, these being the two main mystical texts in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ).

Literary works related to the Hekhalot tradition that have survived in whole or in part include Hekhalot Rabbati ( or Pirkei Hekhalot ), Hekhalot Zutarti, 3rd Enoch ( also known as " Hebrew Enoch "), and Maaseh Merkabah.

In Talmudic times there was a mystic tradition in Judaism, known as Maaseh Bereshith ( the work of creation ) and Maaseh Merkavah ( the work of the chariot ); Maimonides interprets these texts as referring to Aristotelian physics and metaphysics as interpreted in the light of Torah.

Furthermore, Dor Daim accept that in Talmudic times there was a secret mystical tradition in Judaism, known as Maaseh Bereshith ( the work of creation ) and Maaseh Merkavah ( the work of the chariot ); and Maimonides interprets these as respectively referring to something similar to Aristotelian physics and metaphysics as interpreted in the light of Torah.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is nothing academic ; ;

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.

Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

Doubleday is often mistakenly credited with inventing baseball, although he never made such a claim, and there is no evidence to support it.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

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The concept of duality here is closely related to the duality in projective geometry, where lines and edges are interchanged ; in fact it is often mistakenly taken to be a particular version of the same.

It is also sometimes mistakenly believed that DPNSS is semi proprietary and that it is only possible to connect PBXs from the same manufacturer.

Many people have mistakenly claimed that my ideas were formed under the influence of Strindberg and the Germans … but that is wrong.

Hubble is generally mistakenly known for Lemaître's law or " Hubble's law " which was discovered by Georges Lemaître.

He is also mistakenly credited with the discovery of the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way and his galactic red shift discovery that the loss in frequency — the redshift — observed in the spectra of light from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth.

Particularly when the frequency interpretation of probability is mistakenly assumed to be the only possible basis for frequentist inference.

In 1961, Jerry Bails ' Alter Ego, devoted to costumed heroes, became a focal point for superhero comics fandom and is thus sometimes mistakenly cited as the first comics fanzine.

In his philosophy of science, which has much in common with that of his good friend Karl Popper, Hayek was highly critical of what he termed scientism: a false understanding of the methods of science that has been mistakenly forced upon the social sciences, but that is contrary to the practices of genuine science.

Many firearm accidents result from the handler mistakenly believing a firearm is emptied, safetied, or otherwise disabled when in fact it is ready to be discharged.

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

Hypnotism is often, mistakenly, thought to be the same as mesmerism, its historical precursor.

* 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

Outside Russia, the name Kremlin is sometimes mistakenly thought of as being Saint Basil's Cathedral because of its distinctive environment, although the cathedral is not a part of the Moscow Kremlin.