In addition to these works on astronomical timekeeping, he also wrote De natura rerum, or On the Nature of Things, modelled in part after the work of the same title by Isidore of Seville.

The most popular enciyclopedia of Carolingian Age was the De universo or De rerum naturis by Rabanus Maurus, written about 830, which was based on Etymologiae.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

** De rerum natura by Lucretius ( Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy )

Lucretius apotheosized Epicurus as the main character of his epic poem De rerum natura.

* De subtilitate rerum, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1550 ( on natural phenomena ).

* De varietate rerum, Basle, Heinrich Petri, 1559 ( on natural phenomena ).

They were so published by Konrad Gessner in De rerum fossilium, lapidum et gemmarum maxime figuris & similitudinibus at Zurich in 1565 and by many others less famous.

His only known work is the epic philosophical poem De rerum natura about the beliefs of Epicureanism, and which is translated into English as On the Nature of Things or " On the Nature of the Universe ".

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

* August – Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions.

He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum (" On the Properties of Things ", dated at 1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia.

The work De proprietatibus rerum was written at the school of Magdeburg in Saxonia and intended for the use of students and the general public.

* De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica (" General Consultation on an Improvement of All Things Human "), 1666

In contrast the Medieval European's sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: " the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation-these were the building blocks of personhood ", Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery ( 1417 ) and career of Lucretius ' poem De rerum natura: " at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world.

** Polydore Vergil – De inventoribus rerum

His medical works included De naturali parte medicinae ( 1542 ), De vacuandi ratione ( 1545 ), De abditis rerum causis ( 1548 ) which included a chapter on angelology and demonology.

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.

However, De naturis rerum itself was written as a preface to Neckam's commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, itself a part of a wider programme of biblical commentary encompassing the Song of Solomon and the Psalms, representing the three branches of wisdom literature.

See Thomas Wright's edition of Neckam's De naturis rerum and De laudibus divinae sapientiae in the Rolls Series ( 1863 ), and of the De utensilibus in his Volume of Vocabularies.

* Cicero, De natura deorum iii. 21. 53, 23. 59

* Folio 71 recto: Of the nature of Snakes ( De natura serpentium )

* De natura animalium at LacusCurtius ( complete Latin translation )

*" De natura animalium at Google Books 1866 edition ( original Greek )

In 1545, he followed with the De natura eorum quae effluunt e terra ; in 1546 the De veteribus et novis metallis, a comprehensive account of the discovery and occurrence of minerals and also more commonly known as De Natura Fossilium ; in 1548, the De animantibus subterraneis ; and in the two following years a number of smaller works on the metals.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

These types of examples can be seen in the work of the ancient philosopher Cicero, especially in his De natura deorum, ii.

Italian Fortunio Liceti publishes his book De monstrorum natura caussis et differentiis ( On the nature, causes and differences of monsters ).

* Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum II, 66 ( Latin )

The history of these statements can be traced back to Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De natura deorum, through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, and finally to modern statements with their iconic typewriters.

Three centuries later, Cicero's De natura deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ) argued against the atomist worldview:

According to Dijksterhuis, " In De natura lucis et proprietate ( 1662 ) Isaac Vossius said that Descartes had seen Snell's paper and concocted his own proof.

" In On the Nature of Animals ( Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium ), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse ( iii.

Augustine wrote four letters specifically on Pelagianism, " De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III " ( Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins ) in 412, " De spiritu et litera " ( On the Spirit and the Letter ) and " Definitiones Caelestii " ( Caelestius's Definitions ) in 414, and " De natura et gratia " ( On Nature and Grace ) in 415.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

Monsieur De Cury was incensed, of course.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

the twelfth Marquis De Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.