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Wilkins, a 17th-century philosopher, had proposed a universal language based on a classification system that would encode a description of the thing a word describes into the word itself—for example, Zi identifies the genus beasts; Zit denotes the "difference" rapacious beasts of the dog kind; and finally Zitα specifies dog.
Cynegeticus (Ancient Greek: Κυνηγετικός, Kynegetikos "related to hunting" from κυνηγέω "I hunt"), is a treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher and military leader Xenophon, usually translated as "On Hunting" or "Hunting with Dogs." [1] It is one of the four works by Xenophon on arts or skills (each ends with -ikos/-icus).
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... (3 C, 5 P) P. Plays by Aristophanes (11 ...
Euler's proof of the zeta product formula contains a version of the sieve of Eratosthenes in which each composite number is eliminated exactly once. [9] The same sieve was rediscovered and observed to take linear time by Gries & Misra (1978). [19] It, too, starts with a list of numbers from 2 to n in order. On each step the first element is ...
During 1834–8 he edited in separate volumes for John Murray the Acharnians (1835), Wasps (1835), Knights (1836), Clouds (1838), and Frogs (1839) of Aristophanes, with English notes. [1] This edition was adversely criticised by the Rev. George John Kennedy, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Mitchell published a reply to Kennedy in ...
Meton appears briefly as a character in Aristophanes' play The Birds (414 BC). He comes on stage carrying surveying instruments and is described as a geometer . What little is known about Meton is related by ancient historians.
Rhaphanidosis is the act of inserting the root of a radish into the anus.It is mentioned by Aristophanes as a punishment for adultery in Classical Athens in the fifth and fourth century BC.