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Rodolphus Agricola. Agricola was born in Baflo in the Dutch province of Groningen as the illegitimate son of the cleric and future abbot Hendrik Vries and Zycka Huesman, a rich farmer's daughter. [2] He was originally named Roelof Huesman, or Huisman, his mother's surname. The Latin adjective Phrisius identifies him as a Frisian.
Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485), humanist scholar Rodolphus Dickinson (1797–1849), US Representative R. Holland Duell (1824–1891), United States Representative from New York
An instrument was built in the Martinikerk in the middle of the 15th century; this was expanded in 1479 after the construction of the Gothic tower, probably under the direction of Rodolphus Agricola, Groningen's syndic and a noted humanist. From this late-Gothic instrument, numerous pipes survive today.
Alardus took part in the publication of Agricola's De inventione dialectica in 1515, and was editor of a revised edition in Cologne in 1538. [5] His major work was the two-volume collected edition of Agricola of 1539.
7 February (Shrove Tuesday) – Followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects, including books, at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence, an episode repeatedly revisited in literature.
Peter Agricola (1525–1585), German Renaissance humanist, educator, classical scholar, theologian and diplomat; Philipp Agricola (fl. 1571–1594), German poet and dramatist; Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485), Dutch scholar and humanist; Stephan Agricola, also Kastenpaur (1491–1547), German scholar and theologian, formerly an Augustinian friar
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Naturales quaestiones (Natural Questions) is a Latin work of natural philosophy written by Seneca around AD 65. It is not a systematic encyclopedia like the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, though with Pliny's work it represents one of the few Roman works dedicated to investigating the natural world.