This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...a classic and favorite study throughout the British Empire. In 1536 Henry VIII. instituted a professorship of Greek at Cambridge, and invited Erasmus to England, in order to work with John Cheke to create a taste for that branch of knowledge. Cheke became Greek professor at Cambridge, 1540. About the same time the king ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...a classic and favorite study throughout the British Empire. In 1536 Henry VIII. instituted a professorship of Greek at Cambridge, and invited Erasmus to England, in order to work with John Cheke to create a taste for that branch of knowledge. Cheke became Greek professor at Cambridge, 1540. About the same time the king founded a professorship of Hebrew in the same university. Thenceforth the English language could derive ancient linguistic lore from original sources. No doubt, many of the Greek and Hebrew roots, now in the English idiom, owe their introduction to that period. According to Barrington, anatomy was favored by a law, 1540, allowing the united Companies of Barbers and Surgeons yearly the bodies of four criminals to dissect. This science formed a streamlet that carried its tribute of scientific terms into the English idiom. Branching into osteology, myology, physiology, phrenology, comparative anatomy, &c, it has ever since widened its domain and increased the English vocabulary. Thus has language been enriched from century to century, from year to year, by tributaries of new sciences, devices, inventions, and discoveries. We must not omit here a work that made an epoch in science: Copernicus' "De Orbium Celestium Revolutionibus" (Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies), written about 1530, and printed 1543. In this sublime work the Polish sage confirms the idea of Pythagoras, who, 500 B.C., taught that the sun is the center of the solar system, and the theory of Philolaus, who, 350 B.C., claims that the earth, besides its revolution around the sun, has a rotation on its own axis. Copernicus also suggested, in his treatise on the solar system, that gravitation is not a central tendency, but an attraction common to matter, anil probably...
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Bound in publisher's decorative brown cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Gutters weakened. 701 p., 24 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
