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The Error in Longitude in Ptolemy’s Geography [PDF]
It is well known that all longitudes in Ptolemy’s Geography are cumulatively overestimated, so that his map is excessively stretched from west to east as compared with the modern map.
Shcheglov, Dmitry
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A Phoenician Way to be Roman [PDF]
This paper offers a synthesis on my dissertation, titled The Phoenician communities of the Iberian Peninsula and their integration in the Roman world: an identity perspective.
Machuca Prieto, Francisco
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Veniet Tempus (QNat.7.25): Stoic Philosophy and Roman Genealogy in Seneca's View of Scientific Progress [PDF]
Seneca's views on the future development of knowledge have often been interpreted as an enlightened anticipation of the modern faith in progress. And Seneca himself has been depicted as a sort of Condorcet avant la lettre.
TUTRONE, Fabio
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Sympathie universelle et souffle cosmique : le monde des stoïciens, de Posidonius à Chrysippe
According to the Stoics, the world is an immense living body, unified by a principle that is both warm breath and ordering intelligence. All the beings in the world are linked by this community of breath (sumpnoia) so that they are all co-affected by ...
Christelle Veillard
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Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi [PDF]
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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The Commentary as Polemical Tool : The Anonymous Commentator on the Theaetetus against the Stoics [PDF]
Contrairement à ce qui est pris d’ordinaire pour acquis, le Commentateur Anonyme du Théétète est philosophiquement stimulant, comme le démontre la confrontation avec le Stoïcisme.
Bonazzi, Mauro
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Concerning Barbarians and Romans, and RomanDiscourse on Music and Civilization [PDF]
Während der römischen Expansionszeit wurden barbarische Instrumente – Trompete und Trommel – in den Quellen als ,eigenartig‘ oder ,primitiv‘ und ihr Klang als unmusikalisch verstanden.
Vendries, Christophe
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Economic goods or solidarity? Two different approaches to liberality [PDF]
I present the reflection “Economic goods or solidarity? Two different approaches to liberality”. Taking the comparison between the Aristotelian and Stoic concepts of liberality as starting point, I demonstrate that Aristotle, guided by the passion and ...
GIAMMUSSO, SALVATORE
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Reconnaissance of infrared emission from the lunar nighttime surface [PDF]
The reconnaissance described in this paper was performed in 1964 and is an extension and refinement of the first observations (1962), in the 8- to 14-μ wavelength region, of the thermal emission from the lunar nighttime surface [Murray and Wildey, 1964].
Murray, Bruce C. +2 more
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Peripatetic Soul-Division, Posidonius, and Middle Platonic Moral Psychology
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Paul A. Vander Waerdt
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