A Chinese historian of astronomy, Xi Zezong, has claimed that a " small reddish star " observed near Jupiter in 362 BC by Chinese astronomer Gan De may have been Ganymede, predating Galileo's discovery by around two millennia.

The female historian Ban Zhao wrote the Lessons for Women in the Han Dynasty and outlined the four virtues women must abide to, while scholars such as Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi would expand upon this.

The great Chinese historian Sima Qianand much Chinese historiography following himconsidered the Yellow Emperor to be a more historical figure than earlier legendary figures such as Fu Xi, Nüwa, and the Yan emperor.

The Liu Song Dynasty historian Pei Songzhi, when compiling his annotated version of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, found Xi Zaochi's work unreliable at times.

Pei does not specifically comment on Meng Huo's historicity, but points out elsewhere that Xi writes history not found in earlier records, hence the Yunnan historian Fang Guoyu ( 方国瑜 ) uses Pei's doubts on Xi's unreliability to challenge the story of Meng Huo's seven captures ( though Fang does not go as far as to doubt Meng Huo's existence ).

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Yet nationalism has lost few of its charms for the historian, writer or man in the street.

Baseball historian George B. Kirsch has described the results of the Mills commission as a " myth ".

German historian Ernst Kornemann has had it in his Römische Geschichte vols., ed.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

One modern historian has seen him as essentially a marrano.

There were exceptions: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was more frequently portrayed fully nude, though in postures that were intended to portray shyness or modesty, a portrayal that has been compared to modern pin ups by historian Marilyn Yalom.

Although there is no definite proof of the date of his birth, it has been suggested by Ukrainian historian Mykhaylo Maksymovych that it is likely 27 December 1595 ( St. Theodore's day ).

Bevin's initial approach to the USSR as Foreign Secretary has been described by historian Kenneth O. Morgan as " wary and suspicious, but not automatically hostile ".

This has been identified by the historian Ronald Hutton, cited in an article by Roger Dearnsley " The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical, as a piece of medieval ecclesiastical Latin used to mean " lifting the veil.

The claim has been met with skepticism by Cambridge historian Mary Beard.

His work has also been described by art historian Diane Kelder as expressing " the same quiet dignity, sincerity, and durability that distinguished his person.

Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Productions.

For this, and other, reasons mathematical historian Kurt Vogel writes: “ Diophantus was not, as he has often been called, the father of algebra.

Still, Dudley always " remained at the centre of emotional life ", as historian Susan Doran has described the situation.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.

* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

The historian William Hepworth Dixon referred to the Code Napoleon as " the sole embodiment of Bacon's thought ", saying that Bacon's legal work " has had more success abroad than it has found at home ", and that in France " it has blossomed and come into fruit ".

The Fujiwara had become what historian George B. Sansom has called " hereditary dictators.

According to comics historian Coulton Waugh, a 1947 poll of newspaper readers who claimed they ignored the comics page altogether revealed that many confessed to making a single exception: Li ' l Abner.

" The glaring inaccuracy of the second part of this judgment was recognized by the same magazine more than 70 years later, when it claimed that, " he economic historian of the future.

On August 15, 2007, Sam Porpora, a former historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore where Poe is buried, claimed that he had started the tradition in the 1960s.

The fifth century Christian historian Sozomen claimed that the relics of Habakkuk were found at Cela, when God revealed their location to Zebennus, bishop of Eleutheropolis, in a dream.

" This is supported by historian Heinrich Wallau, who adds, " In the 14th and 15th centuries his claimed a hereditary position as ... the master of the archiepiscopal mint.

Research by the legal historian Professor R. Probert of Warwick University has since shown that the actual history of the broomstick wedding, at least in the United Kingdom, has a much shorter history than has been claimed.

Irish historian W. H. Grattan Flood claimed that he was born in Dalkey, near Dublin, but no corroborating evidence has ever been found either for that statement or for Thomas Fuller's claim that he was born in Westminster.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Grigorije Božović ( 1880-1945 ) claimed that the family were Srbljaci ( natives ) in Vasojevići territory, and Montenegrin historian Miomir Dašić claimed that Karađorđe's family originated from the Gurešići from Podgorica, while folklorist Dragutin Vuković thought Tripko Knežević " Guriš " was Karađorđe's great-grandfather.

He circulated copies of the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ' work, which was barely read at the time, and so we perhaps have him to thank for the partial survival of Tacitus ' work ; however, modern historiography rejects his claimed descent from the historian as forgery.

Cambridge historian Christopher Andrews claimed that it was later discovered that the FSLN had, in fact, been actively suppressing right-wing opposition parties while leaving moderate parties alone, with Ortega claiming that the moderates " presented no danger and served as a convenient facade to the outside world ".

The 15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo credited a manuscript he claimed to have found to the Chaldean historian of the 3rd century BC, Berossus, where " Pandora " was also named as a daughter-in-law of Noah ; this attempt to conjoin pagan and scriptural narrative is recognized as a forgery.

This theory is based on the information of the first modern historian of Russia, Vasily Tatishchev ( a Rurikid himself ), who claimed that Rurik was of Wendish extraction.

" Likewise, historian Edvard Radzinsky believes that Stalin was a real follower of Lenin, exactly as he claimed himself.

Although the historian Gilbert Burnet claimed that Henry called her a Flanders Mare, there is no evidence that he said this ; in truth, court ambassadors negotiating the marriage praised her beauty.

The historian Basil Williams has claimed that this is the first time in British history when a " man was called to supreme power by the voice of the people " rather than by the king's appointment or as the choice of Parliament.

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

This historian posited the Jacobin and urban nature of the revolution carried out by the Portuguese Republican Party ( PRP ) and claimed that the PRP had turned the republican regime into a de facto dictatorship.

The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.

The school originated as a medieval cathedral school, and it is often claimed ( e. g. by the historian Arthur Leach in a letter to The Times in 1896, and in the Guinness Book of Records ) to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, therefore making it the world's oldest extant school.

In 2003, historian Lisa Jardine claimed that a recently discovered portrait was of Hooke, but this claim was disproved by William Jensen of the University of Cincinnati.

While Carl Bernstein has ascribed Felt's motives to truth telling and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian Max Holland in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job ( the leaks hurt L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position over Felt ).. John Dean remarked that " Max has got it right — he nailed it ”.