Neckam is not regarded as an especially innovative or profound theologian, although he is notable for his early interest in the ideas of St. Anselm of Canterbury, which had gone out of fashion fairly quickly after Anselm's death.

By the 1100s the School had built for itself such a reputation that the famous Norman scholars Geoffrey de Gorham and Alexander Neckam applied for the post of Master.

In his De utensilibus and De naturis rerum ( both written at about 1190 ), Neckam has preserved to us the earliest European notices of the magnetized needle as a guide to seamen and the earliest European description of the compass.

* Alexander Neckam is the first European to document the mariner's compass, first documented by Shen Kuo during the previous century.

Another version of Romulus in Latin elegiacs was made by Alexander Neckam, born at St Albans in 1157.

Alexander ( of ) Neckam ( 8 September 1157 – 1217 ) was an English scholar and teacher.

Neckam was a firm admirer of Aristotle as an authority in natural science as well as in the logical arts, one of the first Latin thinkers since antiquity to credit this aspect of the Stagirite's output.

Besides theology, Neckam was interested in the study of grammar and natural history, but his name is chiefly associated with nautical science.

It was probably in Paris that Neckam heard how a ship, among its other stores, must have a needle placed above a magnet ( the De utensilibus assumes a needle mounted on a pivot ), which would revolve until its point looked north, and guide sailors in murky weather or on starless nights.

Neckam also displays a keen interest in contemporary medical science.

Neckam also wrote Corrogationes Promethei, a scriptural commentary prefaced by a treatise on grammatical criticism ; a translation of Aesop into Latin elegiacs ( six fables from this version, as given in a Paris manuscript, are printed in Robert's Fables inedites ); commentaries, on portions of Aristotle and Ovid's Metamorphoses, which remain unprinted, on Martianus Capella, which has recently received an edition, and on other works.

It has been speculated ( Spargo, Virgil the Necromancer, 1934 ) that Neckam might also have been unwittingly responsible for starting the late medieval legends about Virgil's alleged magical powers.

In commenting on Virgil, Neckam used the phrase " Vergilius fecit culex " to describe the writing of one of Virgil's earlier poems, culex or the mosquito.

* Neckam, Alexander, Suppletio defectuum, Carmina minora.

* Roger Bacon's reference to Neckam as a grammatical writer ( in multis vera et utitia scripsit: sed ... inter auctores non potest numerari ) may be found in Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's ( Rolls Series ) edition of Bacon's Opera inedita, p. 457.

Another version of Romulus in Latin elegiacs was made by Alexander Neckam, born at St Albans in 1157.

A very large number both of couplets and longer passages are borrowed from other writers, often from Ovid or a medieval writer, such as Alexander Neckam, Peter de Riga, Godfrey of Viterbo, or the author of Speculum Stultorum.

The school also has a long scientific tradition, stretching back to the Norman era, when Alexander Neckam became master of the school.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

But a resumption does not seem justifiable now.

There does not seem to be any reasonable basis for distinction either in terms of the nature of the tax attribute or in terms of tax-avoidance possibilities.

and even on subjectivist assumptions that does not seem very bright.

Perhaps to some their work does not seem particularly vital.

He does not seem to have caught the subtleties of the man.

Only with the more sensual, intense and baroque expressions of Marenzio, Monteverdi and Gesualdo does the singing seem a little superficial.

individually they are nearly as mortal as you -- the difference does not seem very marked to us, where it exists.

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

However, it does seem clear that his first notable work, Summa Quoniam Homines, was completed somewhere between 1155 and 1165, with the most conclusive date being 1160, and likely was developed through his lectures at the school in Paris.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

Competence does not seem to have been the main issue, but rather, at least in the 4th century BC, whether they were loyal democrats or had oligarchic tendencies.

Whether the democratic failures should be seen as systemic, or as a product of the extreme conditions of the Peloponnesian war, there does seem to have been a move toward correction.

It does seem clear that possession of slaves allowed even poorer Athenians — owning a few slaves was by no means equated with wealth — to devote more of their time to political life.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

The text does however seem to imply, based on the text from the earlier passage of Revelation 16: 14, that the purpose of this gathering of kings in the " place called Armageddon " might be so that these kings could do battle with one another.

Benedict does not seem to have left Rome for the purpose of becoming a hermit, but only to find some place away from the life of the great city.

The Greek text corrects the impossibilities but does not seem to represent an earlier version.

Establishing their good character then tarnishing it does not seem likely.

Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.

There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.

It seems wrong to say that " went to a ballgame " is a property that instantiates John, because " went to a ballgame " does not seem to be the same ontological kind of thing as, for instance, redness.