Petrus Gyllius or Gillius (or Pierre Gilles) (1490–1555) was a French natural scientist, topographer and translator. Gilles was born in Albi, southern...
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on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine. The Asian rock is probably...
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drew water from it until, in 1565, the French traveller Petrus Gyllius left a record of it. Gyllius recorded being rowed in between the columns and seeing...
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empire were reportedly gathered and shipped to the construction site. Petrus Gyllius, a contemporary observer, wrote about seeing one of the four enormous...
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animals nor plants, but are possessed of a third nature (tertia natura)". Petrus Gyllius copied Pliny, introducing the term zoophyta for this third group in...
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extensively described along with a dissertation about its history by Petrus Gyllius, who visited Constantinople in 1550. No mention about any damage of...
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year: Among the most famous of these prisoners were: French scientist Petrus Gyllius, captured in 1546 while traveling from France to Greece on a scientific...
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1492) November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490) Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist (born 1490) Grun, Bernard (1991)...
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incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Turkish Wikipedia. Petrus Gyllius; John Ball (1729). Antiquities of Constantinople. London. William Hunter...
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Ottoman Empire, the monument was ascended and measured, in secret, by Petrus Gyllius and described in his De Topographia Constantinopoleos et de illius antiquitatibus...
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Jonas, Lutheran theologian and hymn-writere (born 1493) Unknown date – Petrus Gyllius, French natural scientist and translator (born 1490) *Taylor, Andrew...
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of the spring, surrounded by a railing. In 1547 the French humanist Petrus Gyllius noted that the church no longer existed, but that ailing people continued...
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storm surge, causing him to drown. The 16th-century French topographer Petrus Gyllius evidently did not succeed in locating the ruins of the harbor of Eutropius...
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lacuna, which is only known from a 16th-century Latin paraphrase by Petrus Gyllius. Dionysios of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos English translation...
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in portolans and literary sources since at least the 15th century. Petrus Gyllius, who visited it in the mid-16th century, described it as octagonal,...
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dedicatory inscription has been preserved. The column no longer existed when Petrus Gyllius was writing his De Topographia Constantinopoleos et de illius antiquitatibus...
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