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Water, air and fire at work in Hero's machines [PDF]
, 2011 Known as the Michanikos, Hero of Alexandria is considered the inventor of the world's first steam engine and of many other sophisticated devices. Here we discuss three of them as described in his book "Pneumatica". These machines, working with water, air
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11-12, December 2024.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the divinatory methods the Jews used to address their questions in the Greco–Roman era. Scholars have previously examined how authors of the Hebrew Bible are aware of numerous divinatory techniques. The texts of the Greco–Roman era, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve even more references illuminating the ancients ...
Hanna Tervanotko
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Kentron, 2019 Seneca criticizes gastronomic luxury by providing us with many details of the refinement of Roman cuisine. If he criticizes the choice of the pursuit of the pleasures of the table, he attacks mostly a culinary diet and an ...
Jérôme Laurent
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The Figure of Pontius Pilate in Josephus Compared with Philo and the Gospel of John
Religions, 2020 In this paper, I attempt an approach to the ‘historical Pilate.’ I aim to present the sources referring to him as well as to point out their rhetorical tendencies.
Christian Gers-Uphaus
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Cold‐active microbial enzymes and their biotechnological applications
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2024.Microorganisms known as psychrophiles/psychrotrophs, which survive in cold climates, constitute majority of the biosphere on Earth. Microbes living in these regions are important for their metabolic contribution to the ecosphere as well as for their enzymes, which may have potential industrial and biotechnological applications.
Mohammed Kuddus +7 more
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Active Life and Contemplative Life: A Study of the Concepts from Plato to the Present [PDF]
, 1961 https://epublications.marquette.edu/mupress-book/1000/thumbnail ...
Mason, Sister Mary Elizabeth
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi [PDF]
, 2019 The concept of kosmos did not play the leading role in Aristotle’s physics that it did in Pythagorean, Atomistic, Platonic, or Stoic physics. Although Aristotle greatly influenced the history of cosmology, he does not himself recognize a science of ...
Johnson, Monte
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Il ruolo della Legge Divina nel sistema dei valori cristiano antico
CoSMO, 2013 The essay examines the argumentative and hermeneutical strategies by which Early Christianity adapted concepts and notions borrowed from the past to the Gospel message.
Giovanni Filoramo
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