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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at the end of the 14th or commen...
2: ... the norm for centuries rather than Pizan's invention.
4: ...d, and Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support...
5: ...of Ladies]]'', written in [[1405]], and its companion, [[The Book of the Three Virtues]]. She also wro...
7: ==Biography== - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
1: ...i_Boccaccio.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Giovanni Boccaccio]]
2: ...viduals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters of his contemporaries, who wer...
4: ==Biography==
5: ...orentine]] banker and an unknown woman. An early biographer claimed his mother was a [[Paris]]ien and ...
7: ...rench-influenced court of Robert the Wise. Boccaccio had become a friend of fellow-Florentine [[Niccol... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...tude, and vice-versa; and surveying and triangulation.
6: ...he 16th century. Some historians credit the invention of the astrolabe to [[Hipparchus (astronomer)|Hi...
8: ...be marked with a scale of [[declination | declinations]].
10: ...e sky coordinates on the tympan. A complete rotation represents the passage of one day. The astrolab...
12: ... the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 degrees around the back edge. Another ru... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
3: == Foundation and early history ==
5: ...]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]]...
9: ...]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided into [[bailiwick]]s, which in t...
15: ... eventually pushed the Knights out of their traditional holdings in Jerusalem. After the fall of the K... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
3: ... city of [[Asshur]] (or Ashshur). Later, as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the ...
5: Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high G...
8: ... son of [[Shem]], who was deified by later generations as the city's patron god.
12: ...mpire. Destroyed by barbarians in the [[Gutian period]], it was rebuilt, and ended up being governed a...
15: ...d textiles from Assyria, that were traded for precious metals in Anatolia.
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