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Palaeography or paleography (US; ultimately from Ancient Greek: παλαιός, palaiós, 'old', and γράφειν, gráphein, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the ...
Palaeogeography (or paleogeography) is the study of historical geography, generally physical landscapes. [2] Palaeogeography can also include the study of human or cultural environments.
During the 17th century, Nicolas Steno was the first to observe and propose a number of basic principles of historical geology, including three key stratigraphic principles: the law of superposition, the principle of original horizontality, and the principle of lateral continuity.
The simplest definition of "paleontology" is "the study of ancient life". [5] The field seeks information about several aspects of past organisms: "their identity and origin, their environment and evolution, and what they can tell us about the Earth's organic and inorganic past".
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Palaeography is the study of ancient writing, and textual criticism is the study of manuscripts in order to reconstruct a probable original or initially copied text. None of the original documents of the New Testament is known to scholars to be extant; and the existing manuscripts differ from one another.
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[citation needed] Unlike traditional palaeography, codicology places more emphasis on the cultural aspect of books. [5] The focus on material is referred to as stricto sensu codicology, while a broader approach, incorporating palaeography, philology, art history, and the history of the book , is referred to as lato sensu codicology, and the ...