• Maximus Planudes (Greek: Μάξιμος Πλανούδης, Máximos Planoúdēs; c. 1260 – c. 1305) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician...
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  • called Doctor Maximus Maximus Planudes (c. 1260 – c. 1305), Greek monk, anthologist, translator and theologian Maximus of Aveia or Maximus of Aquila (died...
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    from Ptolemy's coordinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text,...
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    Maximus Planudes, a Byzantine grammarian and theologian, based on the Anthology of Cephalas. It comprises 2,400 epigrams. The Anthology of Planudes starts...
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    Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated...
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  • Constantinople, Callistus Telicoudes, Callistus Cataphugiota, Nicephorus monk, Maximus Planudes PG 148: Nicephorus Gregoras PG 149: Nicephorus Gregoras, Nilus Cabasilas...
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    earlier than the 13th century. A letter written by the Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes records that he searched for one for Chora Monastery in the summer...
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    a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus. The scholar Maximus Planudes also made an edition of the Greek Anthology, which while adding some...
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    manuscripts date from c. 1300 AD (after the text was rediscovered by Maximus Planudes), there are some scholars who think that such maps go back to Ptolemy...
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  • 9th century. The oldest surviving manuscripts of the work date to Maximus Planudes's restoration of the text a little before 1300 at Chora Monastery in...
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    Lives as well as in various Moralia manuscripts, most prominently in Maximus Planudes' edition where Galba and Otho appear as Opera XXV and XXVI. Thus it...
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    14th centuries. The Summa was translated into: Greek (apparently by Maximus Planudes around 1327) and Armenian; many European languages; and Chinese. The...
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  • al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the...
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  • Thymaridas Xenocrates Zeno of Elea Zenodorus Stephanus of Alexandria Maximus Planudes Isaac Argyros Isidore of Miletus John Philoponus Anthemius of Tralles...
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  • arithmetic The New Student's Reference Work/Arithmetic (historical) Maximus Planudes' the Great Calculation an early western work on arithmetic at Convergence...
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    Renaissance". Some of this era's most eminent representatives are: Maximus Planudes, Manuel Moschopoulus, Demetrius Triclinius and Thomas Magister. The...
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    Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plutei 32.16, f. 382v. (riddles compiled by Maximus Planudes between 1280 and 1283, overlapping with those in Book 14 of the Palatine...
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    between the eastern and western churches were Nikephoros Blemmydes and Maximus Planudes. Byzantine historical tradition also flourished with the works of the...
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  • Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd...
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    Vatican manuscripts; these contain a collection that was compiled by Maximus Planudes. The annals of Joannes Zonaras also contain numerous extracts from...
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  • quarrelsome wife. One of the epigrams attributed to him on the authority of Maximus Planudes is a eulogy on the celebrated Hypatia, daughter of Theon of Alexandria...
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    Ptolemy's 1st projection, redrawn under Maximus Planudes around 1300, using a prime meridian through the Canary Islands west of Africa, at the left-hand...
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    Leonardos Philaras (1595–1673), an early advocate for Greek independence Maximus Planudes (c. 1260 – c. 1305), Rome, Venice, anthologist, mathematician, grammarian...
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  • Anthology of Planudes, one in the Anthology of Planudes and three which do not exist in any of the two), based on the Anthology of Planudes, from manuscripts:...
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    Magistros, Demetrius Triclinios, Manuel Moschopoulos, and the theologian Maximus Planudes (c. 1255/1260 – c. 1305/1310). The scholar and statesman Nikephoros...
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  • used in any language before the 13th century. The monk and polymath Maximus Planudes (c. 1260–1305) was among the first recorded users of the word to document...
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    1078 or 1096) Greek writer, philosopher, politician, and historian Maximus Planudes (c. 1260 – c. 1305) Greek scholar, anthologist, translator and grammarian...
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    13th and early 14th centuries, the monastery was home to the scholar Maximus Planudes, who was responsible for the restoration and reintroduction of Ptolemy's...
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    there is a striking similarity between it and the Life of Aesop by Maximus Planudes (ch. xxiii–xxxii). An eastern sage Achaicarus is mentioned by Strabo...
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    Renaissance". Some of this era's most eminent representatives are: Maximus Planudes, Manuel Moschopulus, Demetrius Triclinius and Thomas Magister. The...
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