ANTHEMIUS
, See also:Greek mathematician and architect, who produced, under the patronage of Justinian (A.D
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532), the See also:original and daring plans for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Sophia in See also:Constantinople, which strikingly displayed at once his knowledge and his See also:ignorance
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He was one of five, See also:brothers—the sons of Stephanus, a physician of See also:Tralles—who were all more or less eminent in their respective departments
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Dioscorus followed his See also:father's profession in his native See also:place; See also:Alexander became at See also:Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; See also:Olympias was deeply versed in See also:Roman See also:jurisprudence; and See also:Metrodorus was one of the distinguished grammarians of the See also:great Eastern See also:capital
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It is related of Anthemius that, having a See also:quarrel with his next-See also:door See also:neighbour See also:Zeno, he annoyed him in two ways
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First, he made a number of leathern tubes the ends of which he contrived to See also:fix among the joists and flooring of a See also:fine upper-See also:room in which Zeno entertained his See also:friends, and then subjected it to a See also:miniature See also:earthquake by sending See also:steam through the tubes
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Secondly, he simulated See also:thunder and See also:lightning, the latter by flashing in Zeno's eyes an intolerable See also:light from a slightly hollowed See also:mirror
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Certain it is that he wrote a See also:treatise on burning-glasses
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A fragment of this was published under the See also:title IIep1 irapa66 cev pnxavgA6,ro.v by L
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See also:Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the See also:forty-second See also:volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. See also:des Incr.; A
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Westermann gave a revised edition of it in his lIapabot-aypacpaa (Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci), 1839
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In the course of constructions for surfaces to reflect to one and the same point (1) all rays in whatever direction passing through another point, (2) a set of parallel rays, Anthemius assumes a See also:property of an See also:ellipse not found in See also:Apollonius (the equality of the angles subtended at a See also:focus by two tangents See also:drawn from a point), and (having given the focus and a See also:double See also:ordinate) he uses the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a See also:parabola—the first instance on See also:record of the See also:practical use of the directrix
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On Anthemius generally, see See also:Procopius, De Aedific. i
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1; See also:Agathias, Hist. v
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6-9; See also:Gibbon's Decline and Fall, cap. xl
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