1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248211103316

Autore

Watts Edward Jay <1975->

Titolo

City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria [[electronic resource] /] / Edward J. Watts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

0-520-93180-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 288 p.)

Collana

The transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 41

The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Disciplina

370.938

Soggetti

Education, Ancient - Greece - Athens

Education, Ancient - Egypt - Alexandria

Athens (Greece) Intellectual life

Alexandria (Egypt) Intellectual life

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities Athens and Alexandria from the 2nd to the 6th century to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395180503316

Autore

Leybourn William <1626-1716.>

Titolo

The art of dialling [[electronic resource] ] : perform'd geometrically, by scale and compasses: arithmetically, by the canons of sines and tangents: instrumentally, by a trigonal instrument ... / / by William Leybourn, philomath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon on London-Bridge, [1700?]

Edizione

[The third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[6], 166, 3-24 p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill

Soggetti

Dialing

Sundials

Mathematical instruments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.).

Lacks leaf Y4.  Cf.  Wing (2nd ed.).

Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055