" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.

" The Four Books on Human Proportion " were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528 at the age of fifty-six.

Dürer's work on geometry is called the Four Books on Measurement ( Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt or Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler ).

Dürer's work on human proportions is called the Four Books on Human Proportion ( Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion ) of 1528.

Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ( A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study.

* Four Books

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials.

** The Four Books

* The Four Great Books of Song, a term referring to the four large compilations during the beginning of Song Dynasty.

The enormous encyclopedic work in China of the Four Great Books of Song, compiled by the 11th century AD during the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), was a massive literary undertaking for the time.

This house was designed by colonial architect William Buckland and modeled on the Villa Pisani at Montagnana, Italy as depicted in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell ' architettura (" Four Books Of Architecture ").

In Shia hadith one often finds sermons attributed to Ali in The Four Books or in the Nahj al-Balagha.

Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4 ; books 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman.

His astrological treatise, a work in four parts, is known by the Greek term Tetrabiblos, or the Latin equivalent Quadripartitum: ‘ Four Books ’.

King has taken full ownership of the Bachman name on numerous occasions, as with the republication of the first four Bachman titles as The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King in 1985.

In Shia hadith one often finds sermons attributed to Ali in The Four Books or in the Nahj al-Balagha.

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Four Corners Books 2007, ISBN 978-0-9545025-4-6

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

* Three of the Four Great Books of Song are published ( the last one in 1013 ), which were enormous Chinese encyclopedias having millions of written Chinese characters each.

* The largest of the Four Great Books of Song, the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau ( which had been compiled since 1005 ), is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 9. 4 million written Chinese characters.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1, 000 volumes representing the work of some 2, 200 authors.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 4. 7 million written Chinese characters.

* Emperor Lizong of Song China accepts the Neo-Confucian teachings of the late Zhu Xi, including his commentary on the Four Books.

* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Tàipíng guǎngjì is a Chinese encyclopedia documenting various stories of Chinese myths and subjects of theology.

Three years earlier his fame had earned him the position of lecturer on the The Four Books of Sentences — a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century — and in 1255 he received the degree of master, the medieval equivalent of doctor.

In Holy Scripture and theology he wrote commentaries on the Hexaemeron, the Canticle of Canticles, and the Epistle to the Romans ; several Opuscula and Quodlibeta, various treatises, and especially commentaries on Peter the Lombard's Four Books of Sentences.

* Various commentaries, and a partial English translation of The Four Books of the Sentences itself

The Summa contra Gentiles is usually classified as a theological synthesis along with his earlier Commentary on the The Four Books of Sentences of Peter Lombard and his well-known Summa Theologica, although there are significant differences in scope and intent between all three of these works.

Four years after his polemic was published, Peter of Poitiers, one of the " labyrinths ", was raised by the pope to the dignity of chancellor of the Diocese of Paris, and before the end of the decade Peter Lombard, another of the " Labyrinths ", was recognized as an authority in theology, his method adopted in the schools, and his famous Books of Sentences used as a text and commented on by all the great teachers — a distinction which it retained all through the thirteenth century.

In that same year, Meyronnes and Pierre Auriol ( both Franciscans ) engaged in a famous debate with Pierre Roger (“ the champion of Thomism ” who would soon be Clement VI ); the theological questions discussed were taken from the Sententiae of Peter Lombard ( a scholastic theologian, bishop, and author of Four Books of Sentences ).

Corinthian capital, from Isaac Ware's edition of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura | Four books … ( London 1738.

The front page of I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture )

One factor in the spread of his influence was the publication in 1570 of his architectural treatise, I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture ), which set out rules others could follow.

Palladio's design for a Basilica as it appeared drawn by Leoni, in his translation of I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura | The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books ( 3rd.

Between 1716 and 1720 he published in installments the first complete English language edition of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura, which Leoni entitled The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books.

The most significant of the architectural works were: Vincenzo Scamozzi's L ’ Idea dell ’ Architettura Universale ; Sebastiano Serlio's Sette Libri d ' Architettura ; Domenico Fontana's Della transportatione dell ' obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V ; Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus ; Giacomo Leoni's The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books ; William Kent's The Designs of Inigo Jones and Robert Wood's The ruins of Palmyra.

The book, first printed in the city of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, includes in its second part, a translation to Latin of the Quattuor Americi Vespuccij navigationes ( Four Voyages of Americo Vespucci ), which is apparently a letter written by Amerigo Vespucci, although some historians consider it to have been a forgery written by its supposed recipient in Italy.

This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi (" Four Rulers of the World ").

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

Four hundred million dollars of the increase is for the expanded space program, a responsibility similarly neglected by Mr. Eisenhower.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

* 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.

Four separate laws constituted what is commonly referred to as the " Alien and Sedition Acts "

Gale Owen-Crocker ( Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Manchester ) in The Four Funerals in Beowulf ( 2000 ) argues that a passage in the poem, commonly known as “ The Lay of the Last Survivor ” ( lines 2247 – 66 ), is an additional funeral.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

alt = Four ships flying the British flag advance in the foreground towards an anchored battle line in which the only clear detail is a huge burning ship.

Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.

Four copies have been preserved of it, of which only one is complete ; but it was reprinted in facsimile in 1854 for the Bannatyne Club by the munificence of the Duke of Buccleuch.

In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

Four, usually hard, is sometimes referred to as " little Joe from Kokomo.

" Four normal distribution | Gaussian distributions in statisticsThis unproved statement put a strain on his relationship with János Bolyai ( who thought that Gauss was " stealing " his idea ), but it is now generally taken at face value.

Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned ; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.

Four of the characters in " Think Blue, Count Two " are called " Thirteen " in different languages: Tiga-belas ( both in Indonesian and Malay ), Trece ( Spanish ), Talatashar ( based on an Arabic dialect form < big > ثلاث عشر </ big >, thalāth ʿashar ) and Sh ' san ( based on Mandarin 十三, shísān, where the " í " is never pronounced ).

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )