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Thomas Hobbes | English philosopher | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! Born April 5, 1588. Died December 4, 1679. Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy. Especially as articulated in his masterpiece. 1651) Hobbes viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security. Political authority is justified by a hypothetical social contract. Hobbes . (100 of 4,055 words). Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London. These cita...
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Gregory of Sinai | Greek Orthodox monk | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. November 27, 1346. Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. Saint Maximus the Confessor. Saint Theophilus of Alexandria. Saint Gregory of Nyssa. Saint John of Damascus. Also called Gregory Sinaites. Died Nov. 27, 1346. Mt Paroria, near modern Burgas. Bulg) Greek Orthodox monk, theologian, and mystic, the most prominent medieval advocate of. Gregory’s best known work is the. 137 Chapters; or Spiritual Meditations,.
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Presentation of the Virgin Mary | religious festival | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! Presentation of the Virgin Mary. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. Ember Days and Ember Weeks. Presentation of the Virgin Mary. Celebrated in the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches on November 21. Based on a legend contained in the. Learn More in these related articles:. In Saints Anne and Joachim. At Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up. This event became so important in church doctrine that by 1585 Pope Sixtus V included in...
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Georges Melies | French filmmaker | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. December 8, 1861. January 21, 1938. Born December 8, 1861. Died January 21, 1938. Paris) early French experimenter with. The first to film fictional narratives. Rene Dazy/J.P. Ziolo. Le Voyage dans la lune. A Trip to the. Le Christ marchant sur les eaux. Christ Walking on Water. Le Voyage dans la lune. A Trip to the Moon. Le Voyage à travers l’impossible. The Voyage Across the Impossible. History of the moti...
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meantone temperament | music | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. 1500 through the 18th century. It enabled keyboard instruments to play in five or six closely related keys, rather than in only one key. The system supposedly used in medieval monophonic (melody-only) music,. Meantone tuning accomplished this by making the fifth slightly smaller than a natural fifth (by 16 cents; 1 cent =. Help us improve this article! Contact our editors with your Feedback. Any musical inst...
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typography | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! Warren E. Preece. James M. Wells. The design, or selection, of letter forms to be organized into words and sentences to be disposed in blocks of type as printing. Upon a page. Typography and the typographer who practices it may also be concerned with other, related matters the selection of paper. The choice of ink. The method of printing. The design of the binding. If the product at hand is a book. Is not a typographic item. Typography, then, ...
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The Taming of the Shrew | work by Shakespeare | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Taming of the Shrew. Music in Shakespeare’s Plays. Viewing Shakespeare on Film. Shakespeare and the Liberties. The Taming of the Shrew. Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare. Written sometime in 1590 94 and first printed in the First Folio. Of 1623. The play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish. Kate) and the canny. Bianca and her many suitors was derived from. 1566), itself a translation of I suppositi. 5 References foun...
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Venus de Milo | sculpture | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. Ancient statue commonly thought to represent. At the Louvre Museum. It was carved from marble. By Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch. On the Maeander River about 150 bce. It was found in pieces on the Aegean island. On April 8, 1820, and was subsequently presented to Louis XVIII. The Greek goddess of the sea. Marble statue of Aphrodite, from Melos,. The general composition derives from a 4th-century- bce.
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Berne Convention | copyright law | Britannica.com
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School and Library Subscribers. Activate Your Free Trial! The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. Bern Convention, International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Law of the Sea. Berne also spelled Bern. Formally International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Agreement adopted by an international conference in Bern (Berne) in 1886 and subsequently modified several times (Berlin, 1908; Rome. 1928; Brussels, 1948; Stockholm. Use in book publishing (.
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