Guillaume Postel (25 March 1510 – 6 September 1581) was a French linguist, Orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor...
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Postel is a surname, and may refer to: Guillaume Postel (1510–1581), French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, and religious universalist Christian...
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soon visited France, one in 1533, and another the following year. Guillaume Postel became the first French Orientalist after 1536, when he went to Constantinople...
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Azimuthal equidistant projection (redirect from Postel projection)
1569 map. In France and Russia this projection is named "Postel projection" after Guillaume Postel, who used it for a map in 1581. Many modern star chart...
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Grrrr... Guillaume Pellicier, French diplomat Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold, French piano maker Guillaume Postel, French linguist, orientalist, astronomer,...
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recommendation of humanist Guillaume Budé. Students at the Collège could study Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, then Arabic under Guillaume Postel beginning in 1539...
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analysis of Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic was published in Latin in 1538 by Guillaume Postel. Almost two centuries later, Hiob Ludolf described the similarities...
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among all good Pantagruelists. Reminiscences drawn from Antiphanes, Guillaume Postel, and Caelius Calcagninus underlie this episode, which should be read...
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L'Harmattan. pp. 31–37. ISBN 2-7384-0144-9. A short annotated biography of Guillaume Postel. Del Col, Andrea, ed. (1996). Domenico Scandella Known as Menocchio:...
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printed in Basel, Switzerland, by Guillaume Postel, who printed his Latin translation of a Greek version of the work. Postel also gave the work the Latin name...
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from him, and in him." In this interpretation, Rabelais was following Guillaume Postel in his De orbis terrae concordia. The nineteenth-century visionary...
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his alliance. Authors wrote about the Ottoman civilization, such as Guillaume Postel or Christophe Richer, in sometimes extremely positive ways. In the...
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Suleiman's closest companion and kept his constant company. According to Guillaume Postel, she, purportedly saved Suleiman from potential execution by his father...
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Paris Abel Pavet de Courteille Paul Pelliot François Pétis de la Croix Guillaume Postel Edgar Quinet Petrus Ramus Henri Victor Regnault Louis Robert Jean-Baptiste...
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'heshe', signifying a dual-gendered deity, as earlier theorized by Guillaume Postel (16th century) and Michelangelo Lanci [it] (19th century). It had ceased...
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February 24 – Costanzo II Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1512) March 25 – Guillaume Postel, French linguist (d. 1581) March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer...
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France and the Ottoman Empire flourished. French scholars such as Guillaume Postel or Pierre Belon were able to travel to Asia Minor and the Middle East...
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is, according to Mark Sameth, consistent with a theory put forth by Guillaume Postel (16th century) and Michelangelo Lanci [it] (19th century) that the...
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modern Jewish thinkers viewing God as outside of the gender binary. Guillaume Postel (16th century), Michelangelo Lanci [it] (19th century), and Mark Sameth...
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Irena Dorota, Guillaume Postel et Jean Boulaese: De Summopere (1566) et Le Miracle De Laon (1566) (Droz 1995). Kuntz, Marion, Guillaume Postel: Prophet of...
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forming a grammar for himself as he went along. At the suggestion of Guillaume Postel, after learning Greek he learned Hebrew, and then Arabic, becoming...
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In 1538 Guillaume Postel published the Samaritan alphabet, together with the first Western representation of a Hasmonean coin. This predates publication...
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tribes who wished to ally with him implement the zakat in particular. Guillaume Postel was among the first to present a more positive view of Muhammad when...
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regarded as a forerunner of Afroasiatic studies. The French orientalist Guillaume Postel had also pointed out similarities between Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic...
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In 1538 Guillaume Postel published the Samaritan alphabet, together with the first Western representation of a Hasmonean coin....
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Trent, which he attended. Through his uncle, Bouvery became patron of Guillaume Postel; he was patron also of Jean Bodin. On the 1560 accession of Charles...
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hand for over 100 years.[citation needed] During the 16th century, Guillaume Postel, who had been on an embassy to the Ottoman Empire, brought back Arabic...
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Ages were philosophers such as Nicole Oresme and Erasmus; whereas Guillaume Postel was more favourable and Dante was a convinced adherent. Later, Protestants...
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several works. Masius studied Hebrew in Leuven, Arabic in Rome with Guillaume Postel and in 1553 Syriac with Moses of Mardin, a priest of the Patriarchate...
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Guillaume Postel, 1555 Hæc chorographia præpocapiti 33. libri numer...
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