According to Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history of science at MIT, and student of mythology, the sampo and the world pillar both refer to the precession of the equinox.

According to Leonardo's contemporary, Giorgio Vasari, "... after he had lingered over it four years, left it unfinished ...." Leonardo, later in his life, is said to have regretted " never having completed a single work ".

According to Giorgio Vasari, shortly after the installation of his Pietà Michelangelo overheard ( or asked visitors about the sculptor ) someone remark that it was the work of another sculptor, Cristoforo Solari, whereupon Michelangelo signed the sculpture.

According to Finn Fordham, Joyce related to his daughter-in-law Helen Fleischmann that " Mamalujo " also represented Joyce's own family, namely his wife Nora ( mama ), daughter Lucia ( lu ), and son Giorgio ( jo ).

According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there.

According to his biographer Giorgio Vasari, he was in charge of construction of the cathedral of the city, for which he provided the statues once decorating the lower part of the façade destroyed in 1589.

According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he is placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters.

According to Giorgio Agamben, this kind of violence, which necessarily bears a juridical value, is another example of the fusion of right to " bare life " ( It.

According to the art historian Giorgio Vasari, Botticelli was a partisan of Savonarola: " he was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress.

According to pseudo-Archytas's treatise " On justice and law ", quoted by Giorgio Agamben in State of Exception ( 2005 ), Basileus is more adequately translated into " Sovereign " than into " king ".

According to Giorgio Vasari:

According to Giorgio Vasari, his best pupils were Giovanni dal Lione, Raffaellino dal Colle, Benedetto Pagni, Figurino da Faenza, Giovanni Battista Bertani and his brother Rinaldo, and Fermo Guisoni.

According to Giorgio Vasari, Ginevra de ' Benci was also included in the fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, but it is now believed that Vasari made a mistake and that Ghirlandaio painted Giovanna Tornabuoni.

According to Giorgio Agamben, Uexküll was a baron before his family lost most of their fortune in World War I, although Uexküll managed to retain a villa on Capri where the critic, historian and philosopher Walter Benjamin stayed for some time.

According to the Jesuit, Jakub Wujek, he was strangled by a nephew ( Giorgio, son of Alphonso ) at Gyulafehérvár, in May 1588.

According to Reti, the first machine that could be characterized as a centrifugal pump was a mud lifting machine which appeared as early as 1475 in a treatise by the Italian Renaissance engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini.

According to Slant Magazine, the Hex Hector remix of the song uses full-throated vocals by Simpson, and includes disco-influenced string arrangement, which is comparable to the musical style of Giorgio Moroder.

According to the Italian Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari, Agostino was born into a Sienese family of sculptors and architects, and studied in the workshop of Giovanni Pisano.

According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

According to Vasari, antique art was central to the rebirth of Italian art.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

According to Vasari, at their prompting in 1423 Masaccio travelled to Rome with Masolino: from that point he was freed of all Gothic and Byzantine influence, as may be seen in his altarpiece for the Carmelite Church in Pisa.

According to Vasari, all Florentine painters studied his frescoes extensively in order to " learn the precepts and rules for painting well ".

According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice " despite the tears of his mother ".

According to Vasari, Raphael's premature death on Good Friday ( April 6, 1520 ), which was possibly his 37th birthday, was caused by a night of excessive sex with Luti, after which he fell into a fever and, not telling his doctors that this was its cause, was given the wrong cure, which killed him.

According to Vasari, who was not only the architect of the Uffizi but also the author of Lives of the Artists, published in 1550 and 1568, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo gathered at the Uffizi " for beauty, for work and for recreation.

According to Vasari, the church was designed by Giovanni Pisano.

According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the word " competition " ( or " concorrenza " in Italian ) in its economic sense.

According to Vasari, Andrea resolved never to touch the brush again because Leonardo, his pupil, had far surpassed him, but later critics consider this story apocryphal.

According to Vasari, Piero excelled in designing pageants and triumphal processions for the pleasure-loving youths of Florence, and gives a vivid description of one such procession at the end of the carnival of 1507, which illustrated the triumph of death.

According to Vasari, the statue stood on a column designed by Desiderio da Settignano in the middle of the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici ; an inscription seems to have explained the statue's significance as a political monument: " Victor est quisquis patriam tuetur / Frangit immanis Deus hostis iras / En puer grandem domuit tiramnum / Vincite cives " ( The victor is whoever defends the fatherland.

According to Vasari, " This casting, which is admirable, acquired very great fame and repute for him by reason of the proportion and grace that it shows in all its parts ; and whosoever observes this work well can see that the design is good, and that the craftsman was a man of judgment and of practised ability.

According to Vasari, the young Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi had designed an unusually large and heavy dome for Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral ( Duomo ) in Florence, Italy.

According to Vasari, " The work was carried out in extremely uncomfortable conditions, from his having to work with his head tilted upwards ".

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to Charles Aaron, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

According to Kenneth S. Rogoff, " Although the development of international capital markets was quite limited prior to 1800, we nevertheless catalog the numerous defaults of France, Portugal, Prussia, Spain, and the early Italian city-states.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and an order of miracles and mystery.

According to old German literature, dragoons were invented by Count Ernst von Mansfeld, one of the greatest German military commanders, in the early 1620s.

According to Haller he was alive early in the 18th century.

According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.

According to Boztepe, his early days in Germany were difficult due to his Turkish heritage — he was a constant target for racial insults and, more often than not, verbal abuse would escalate into physical abuse.

According to Charles Holcombe, the early Tujue population was rather heterogeneous and many of the names of Göktürk rulers are not even Turkic.

According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.