Paradoxography (redirect from Mirabilia)
abnormal or inexplicable phenomena of the natural or human worlds (Latin mirabilia, 'marvels, miracles'). The term paradoxographos (paradoxographer) was...
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Jordan Catala (redirect from Mirabilia Descripta)
an Occitanian Dominican missionary and explorer in Asia known for his Mirabilia descripta describing the marvels of the East. He was the first bishop...
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Mirabilia Urbis Romae (“Marvels of the City of Rome”) is a grouping of hundreds of manuscripts, incunabula, and books in Latin and modern European languages...
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Rete mirabile (redirect from Rete mirabilia)
A rete mirabile (Latin for "wonderful net"; pl.: retia mirabilia) is a complex of arteries and veins lying very close to each other, found in some vertebrates...
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Historia Brittonum (section Mirabilia)
the Historia is a section called De mirabilibus Britanniae (or simply Mirabilia for short, a Latin word meaning 'marvels, miracles'). It gives a list...
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September 2022. "Shams Ar Riyadh". ProTenders. "Dar Al Arkan launches Mirabilia, a luxury development with interiors by Roberto Cavalli". Excellence Magazine...
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set up under the Roman Republic. Note: MUR stands for the 12th century Mirabilia Urbis Romae Ancient Rome portal List of post-Roman triumphal arches Victory...
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names Athenaeum (1831-1840) St. Xavier College (1840–1930) Motto Vidit Mirabilia Magna (Latin) Motto in English He has seen great wonders Type Private...
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Henry Yule translated the book in Jordanus Catalani's (fl. 1321–1330) Mirabilia descripta: the wonders of the East. This term is in turn derived from...
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compiled for the use of pilgrims nor in works such as the 12th century Mirabilia Urbis Romae ("Marvels of the City of Rome"), which claims the Circus Flaminius...
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hateful towards Titus by Cassius Dio. The medieval Latin travel guide Mirabilia Urbis Romae noted the monument, writing: "the arch of the Seven Lamps...
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asiatische Moschushandel vom frühen 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert", in Mirabilia Asiatica, edited by J. Alves, C. Guillot and R. Ptak. Wiesbaden and Lisbon:...
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Catalani; Yule, Henry; Parr, Charles McKew donor; Parr, Ruth (1863). Mirabilia descripta : the wonders of the East. London : Printed for the Hakluyt...
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universal joints. The mechanism was later described in Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis (1664) by Gaspar Schott, who mistakenly claimed that it was a constant-velocity...
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Catalani; Yule, Henry; Parr, Charles McKew donor; Parr, Ruth (1863). Mirabilia descripta: the wonders of the East. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society...
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recorded in two letters he wrote to the friars of Armenia, and a book, Mirabilia, translated as Wonders of the East. Another Dominican, Ricold of Monte...
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the intervening distances. The first such guidebooks for Medieval Rome (mirabilia urbis) were compiled in the 12th century to address the needs of travelers...
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witnessed the demonstration in 1538. Gaspar Schott, Technica Curiosa, sive Mirabilia Artis, Libris XII. ... [Curious works of skill, or marvelous works of...
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θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων; Latin: De mirabilibus auscultationibus), often called Mirabilia, is a collection of thematically arranged anecdotes formerly attributed...
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Quam mirabilia sunt opera tua, Domine! (How wonderful are your works, Lord!). c. 1758–1760 sanguine drawing by Vieira Lusitano depicting the assassination...
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buoyancy (see below). The arterial retia mirabilia are extraordinarily well-developed. The complex arterial retia mirabilia of the sperm whale are more extensive...
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Antiquities, 1. 43. 1 Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Akelēs Solinus, De mirabilia mundi, 1. 15 Virgil, Aeneid, 7. 655 ff Plutarch, Life of Sertorius, 9...
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was the otherwise unknown author of a paradoxographical work entitled Mirabilia or Historiae Mirabiles. This was compiled from the works of earlier writers...
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originally part of the sculpture (based on medieval accounts, including in the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, which suggest that a small figure of a bound barbarian chieftain...
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Bellini Tower 145 37 2008 14 Le Parc Puerto Madero Towers 144 43 2007 15 Mirabilia Towers 142 45 2007 16 Libertador 4444 142 46 1993 17 Alas Building 141...
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and Power Station of Art Shangai. In 2023, he held the solo exhibition Mirabilia at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, which featured more than 100 works created...
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sides 25 metres (82 ft) long and was between 32 and 50 meters high. The Mirabilia Urbis Romae (a 12th-century guide of the city) says that the monument...
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2009 ' 'Mole Rain' and other natural phenomena in the Welsh annals: can mirabilia unravel the textual history of the Annales Cambriae?' Welsh History Review...
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Robert Mayhew (ed.). Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities. Taylor & Francis...
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Zacuto 1504 (Yoniko). Martin of Opava (c. 1250), later versions of the Mirabilia Urbis Romae, and the Chronica Boemorum of Giovanni de' Marignolli (1355)...
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