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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: '''Christine de Pizan''' (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poe...
19: ...de la cite des dames''. She was devoted to her adopted country. During the civil wars she wrote a ''La...
25: ..., Sir John Fastolf, and is preserved in a manuscript at Longleat. This was edited (1904) for the Roxbu... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
13: ...father had returned to Florence in 1338 and bankruptcy and the death of his wife a little later. Altho...
17: ...wrote the ''Decameron'' in 1370-71, this manuscript has survived to the present day.
23: ...not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365 and travelled to Naples and then on to Padua and ...
25: ...returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to [[Pope Urban V]]. When ...
38: *''Corbaccio'' (around 1365, this date is disputed) - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
8: ...'', a framework bearing a projection of the [[ecliptic]] and several pointers indicating the positions...
10: As the rete is rotated, the stars and the ecliptic move over the projection of the sky coordinates...
12: ...day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 ...
20: ...the French instrument-maker [[Jean Fusoris]] (ca. 1365 - 1436) started selling astrolabes in his shop in... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
347: *[[Christine de Pizan]], (c. 1365-c. 1430){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
29: ...st the entirety of their fleet was destroyed or captured in what is now known as the [[Battle of Lepan... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
19: ...Hittite]] pressure, enabling [[Ashur-uballit I]] (1365-1330 BC), to again make Assyria an independent an...
27: ...[Tiglath-Pileser I]] crossed the [[Euphrates]], capturing Carchemish, defeated the Mushki and the remn...
31: ... the Khabur and the Euphrates. His harshness prompted a revolt that was crushed decisively in a pitch...
37: ...surgence in expansion by Urartu. The notable exception was [[Adad-nirari III]] (810-782), who brought...
43: ...spended paying tribute and allied himself with Egypt against Assyria in 725. This led Shalmaneser to ...
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