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    archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ("On the Natures of Things"). He also wrote treatises on education...
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  • Wright's edition of Neckam's De naturis rerum and De laudibus divinae sapientiae in the Rolls Series (1863), and of the De utensilibus in his Volume of...
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    The most popular encyclopedia of the Carolingian Age was the De universo or De rerum naturis by Rabanus Maurus, written about 830, which was based on the...
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  • an encyclopedia Hrabanus Maurus, 842. De rerum naturis (On the nature of things), derived from Isidore's text De Administrando Imperio, a domestic and...
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  • List of editiones principes in Latin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    ep. (De natura rerum, Chronica, De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, Regula monachorum, Epistulae, Versus sancti Isidori, Liber numerorum, De haeresibus)"...
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  • member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum ("On the Properties of Things"), dated c.1240, an early forerunner...
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    Naturalis Historia 847 AD – Rabanus Maurus authors the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ('On the Nature of Things'). Medieval period – the great chain of being...
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  • have not survived. Wrote De motu cordis (On the Motion of the Heart) and dedicated it to Alexander Nequam. De naturis Rerum De Educatione Accipitrum (On...
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    this refers to the Nile crocodile. According to Alexander Neckam's De naturis rerum (ca 1180), the basilisk (basiliscus) was the product of an egg laid...
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  • Historiarum. 1217 – Alexander Neckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature of Things"), a scientific encyclopedia. 1220 – A new...
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    magnetized needle and its use among sailors occurs in Alexander Neckam's De naturis rerum (On the Natures of Things), written in 1190. However, there are questions...
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  • in three manuscripts. The other work is De naturis rerum by Alexander Nequam. The other writer is Pierre de Beauvais, who wrote after Philip. Matilda...
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  • historiae libri duo [.] de naturis piscipium, in altero vero de medicinis ex aquatilibus sive piscibus. Pauli item Iovii de piscibus liber unus [.] ...
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    1195 work on nautical science, De naturis rerum, and William the Breton's c. 1215 poem, Philippide. In the 1170s, Chrétien de Troyes mentions the forest of...
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    own statement he was engaged in writing it in 1349. A Latin work, De naturis rerum, of the Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré (d. 1263), served as model. Conrad...
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    January 2021) Neckam, A. (1863). Alexandri Neckam de Naturis Rerum libri duo, with a poem of the same author, De Laudibus Divinae Sapientiae, Longman, Green...
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  • Pope Gelasius I (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Christ having only a Divine nature. Gelasius authored the book De duabus in Christo naturis (On the dual nature of Christ), which described Catholic doctrine...
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