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

* Folio 80 verso: Isidorus on the nature of man ( Ysidorus de natura hominis )

" Cyril had apparently understood the Greek word physis to mean approximately what the Latin word persona ( person ) means, while most Greek theologians would have interpreted that word to mean natura ( nature ).

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or " essential qualities, innate disposition ", and in ancient times, literally meant " birth ".

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

Serviceable by nature, they bring forth fruits of valuable forests ( Sua enim aptae natura pretiosarum poma silvarum parturiunt ); their hilltops are clothed with vines growing by chance ; in place of grasses, there is commonly vegetable and grain.

For this reason, Rahner denies the possibility of a state of pure nature ( natura pura, human existence without being-involved with grace ), which according to him is a counterfactual.

* 1555 – Conrad Gessner's Historic Animalium qui est de Auium natura and Pierre Belon's ( Bellonius ) Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux.

* Ruđer Bošković publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium (" Theory of natural philosophy reduced to one law of the forces existing in nature ").

The historical phrases Quod natura non dat, Salmantica non praestat ( what nature does not give, Salamanca does not lend, in Latin ) and Multos et doctissimos Salmantica habet ( many and very versed Salamanca has ) give an idea of the prestige the institution rapidly acquired.

The word nature comes from the Latin word, natura, meaning birth or character ( see nature ( innate )).

— William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 ), The Excursion ( Book Eighth: " The Parsonage ", lines 220-230 )</ poem ></ ref > Virtue, Cicero insisted, is nothing but nature perfected and developed to its highest point, and there is therefore a resemblance between man and God: " Est autem virtus nihil aliud quam in se perfecta et ad summo perducta natura ; est igitur homini cum deo similitudio ".

There is a real change in the elements — we allow ut panis iam consecratus non sit panis quem natura formavit ; sed, quem benedictio consecravit, et consecrando etiam immutavit.

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 ".

Biblia natura published posthumously in 1737, carried the first confirmation that the queen bee is the sole mother of the colony.

He is remembered chiefly because it was to him that Lucretius addressed the De rerum natura, perhaps with the idea of making him a convert to the doctrines of Epicurus.

De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things ) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

What is perhaps most striking about De rerum natura is Telesio's attempt to mechanize as much as possible.

It is noteworthy though that Cicero remarked the existence of a stark difference between the Latin Iuno Seispes and the Argolic Hera ( as well the Roman Iuno ) in his work De natura deorum.

The formal unity, however, is not an arbitrary creation of the mind, but exists " in natura rei ante omnem operationem intellectus.

Another collection of essays, Martwa natura z wędzidłem ( Still Life with a Bridle ), published in 1993, is devoted to seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

Among Dutch painters, the one who fascinates Herbert the most is hardly known Torrentius, whose work Martwa natura z wędzidłem is the only one to be preserved.

To the first set belongs the famous poem Sulla natura d ' amore, which in fact is a treatise on amorous metaphysics, and was annotated later in a learned way by renowned Platonic philosophers of the 15th century, such as Marsilius Ficinus and others.

Van der Naturen Bloeme is a free translation of De natura rerum, a natural history in twenty books by a native of Brabant, Thomas of Cantimpré ; and his Rijmbijbel is taken, with many omissions and additions, from the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor.

Liceti's primary work in the field of generation, and his most famous, is De monstruorum causis, natura et differentiis, originally published in Padua in 1616 then reprinted in 1634 with lavish illustrations.

Other medical works include Mulctra, sive De duplici calore corporum naturalium ( 1634 ) and Pyronarcha, sive De fulminum natura deque febrium origine ( 1636 ), in which he held that a headache is the microcosmic equivalent of the macrocosmic phenomenon of lightning.

" Helena Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society also compared Spinoza's religious thought to Vedanta, writing in an unfinished essay " As to Spinoza ’ s Deity — natura naturans — conceived in his attributes simply and alone ; and the same Deity — as natura naturata or as conceived in the endless series of modifications or correlations, the direct outflowing results from the properties of these attributes, it is the Vedantic Deity pure and simple.

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

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.

In English its first recorded use, in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world, was very late in history in 1266 ; however natura, and the personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages and as a concept seated between the properly divine and the human, it can be traced to Ancient Greece-though Earth or Eorthe in the Old English period may have been personified as a goddess and the Norse also had a goddess called Jord Earth.

Darwin knew that discontinuous variations or " sports " occurred, and that their effects were heritable, but he argued that such changes would not be important in evolution, which must occur gradually according to the doctrine of natura non facit salta ( see gradualism ).

Cicero wrote in De natura deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ) that the world " encompasses ... within itself all beings ... And what could be more nonsensical than denying perfection to an all-embracing being ...

" 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.

From this point of view he edited the Theogony of Hesiod ( 1868 ), with a commentary, chiefly mythological, and Cicero's De natura deorum ( 1850, 4th ed.

Equicola ’ s Libro della natura d ’ amore ( 1495 ), Pietro Bembo ’ s Asolani and Francesco Cattani da Diacceto ’ s De amore were published while Judah was writing.

His chief philosophical works were an edition of the Théodicée of Leibniz ( 1874 ), a monograph on John Locke ( 1878 ), Devoirs et droits de l ' homme ( 1880 ), Franciscus Glissonius quid de natura substantiae, seu vita naturae senserit, et utrum Leibnitio de natura substantiae cogitanti quidquam contulerit ( 1880 ); and De La solidarite morale ( 4th ed., 1893 ).

In Aelian's De natura animalium they are mistakenly mentioned, along with scorpions, as responsible for the abandoning of a country in Ethiopia.

" Cicero wrote in De natura deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ): " Two forms are the most distinctive: of solids, the sphere ... and of plane figures, the circle ...

The 17th century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza connected God and Nature through the phrase deus sive natura ( God, or Nature ).

In the Western world, the concept was introduced by the neoplatonic philosophers, and described as a feature of the Christian God by Saint Augustine in De natura boni ( On the Nature of Good, written circa 399 ).

* Physica, quibus rerum corporearum vis et natura ... explicantur ( Amsterdam, 1664 ); Dictata physica privata, id est physica contracta seu theses physicae, commentario perpetuo explicatae ( Frankfurt, 1681 ; Leipzig, 1689 ).