Quintilian was born c. 35 in Calagurris (Calahorra, La Rioja) in Hispania. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of Nero. While there, he cultivated a ...
In 1487 he became a student at the University of Freiburg, Baden, and received the degree of magister in 1489. He then entered the Carthusian Order. During the years 1500-1502 he was prior at Klein-Ba ...
On the Equilibrium of Planes (two volumes)The first book is in fifteen propositions with seven postulates, while the second book is in ten propositions. In this work Archimedes explains the Law of the ...
Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth is based on a ...
Manutius was born in Bassiano, in the Papal States, in what is now the province of Latina, some 100 km south of Rome, during the Italian Renaissance period.His family was well off and Manutius was edu ...
Block printing, called tarish in Arabic was developed in Arabic Egypt during the ninth-tenth centuries, mostly for prayers and amulets. There is some evidence to suggest that these print blocks were m ...
The traditional picture of an orderly series of scripts, each one invented suddenly and then completely displacing the previous one, has been conclusively demonstrated to be fiction by the archaeologi ...
The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau (simplified Chinese: 册府元龟; traditional Chinese: 冊府元龜; pinyin: Cèfǔ Yuánguī) was the largest encyclopedia compiled during the Chinese Song Dynasty (9 ...
Emperor Taizu of Song (r. 960–976) unified China by conquering other lands during his reign, ending the upheaval of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In Kaifeng, he established a strong cen ...
The Four Great Books of Song (simplified Chinese: 宋四大书; traditional Chinese: 宋四大書; pinyin: Sòngsìdàshū) was compiled by Li Fang (925-996) and others during the Song dynasty (960–1279). Th ...
While discussing his "new science", now associated with the social sciences, Ibn Khaldūn states that no other author before him, as far as he was aware, had written about it. However, he was aware th ...
Ibn Khaldun starts the Muqaddimah with a thorough criticism of the mistakes regularly committed by his fellow historians and the difficulties which await the historian in his work. He notes seven crit ...
Ibn Khaldūn has left behind few works other than his history of the world, al-Kitābu l-?ibar. Significantly, such writings are not alluded to in his autobiography, suggesting perhaps that Ibn Khald ...
Ibn Khaldun's life is relatively well-documented, as he wrote an autobiography (??????? ???? ????? ?????? ???? ?????, at-Ta?rīf bi-ibn Khaldūn wa-Ri?latuhu Gharban w ...
Ibn al-Athir belonged to the influential and big Arab tribe Banu Bakr, who lived across upper Mesopotamia, and gave their name to the city of Diyar Bakr. Al-Athir lived a scholarly life in Mosul, ofte ...
