An Unrecorded 1660 English Edition Of Michael Scot's Physionomia

The Library ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-542
Author(s):  
Vladislav Stasevich
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
English Edition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract This note is concerned with the possibly unique copy of a previously unknown 1660 edition of an English translation of Michael Scotus’s Physionomia, which has survived in the holdings of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Though some records of this edition exist, none is properly bibliographical, and some bibliographers of the past have denied the existence of such a translation. The note offers a description of the particular copy, the make-up and content of the edition, the identity of the translator and a comparison of the translation with the Latin text of the editio princeps of 1477. The edition of 1660 is compared with two later English works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which also purport to be the translations of the same work but in fact exploit the edition in question, progressively distorting it.

Pro-Qajar Elements in Dagestan (Early 19th Century)

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-286
Author(s):  
Temur Aytberov ◽  
Shahban Khapizov
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

AbstractIt is known that the Qajars had their supporters in Dagestan during the Russo-Persian Wars in the early 19th century. This fact is well documented in Persian chronicles and royal decrees (firmāns), as well as in the materials from the Russian archives. However, the number of historical documents originating from the region itself is drastically few. This paper presents three letters in Arabic, without dates, but definitely from the same period, illustrating the political situation of the time in the mountains of Dagestan and the geographical extent of the Qajar influence in the area. The letters were discovered recently in the Archives of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences in Makhachkala. The English translation is accompanied by the facsimile reproduction of the original texts, and commentaries.

scholarly journals Archaeomagnetic studies at Schmidt institute of physics of the earth, Russian Academy of Sciences: history and main results

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
I. E. Nechasova ◽  
O. V. Pilipenko
Keyword(s):  
Field Intensity ◽  
Geomagnetic Field ◽  
Main Magnetic Field ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Geomagnetic Field Intensity ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Schmidt Institute

The archaeomagnetic studies carried out at the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPE RAS) provided an important contribution to the international studies of the main magnetic field of the Earth for the past few thousand years. Extensive data on the intensity of geomagnetic field in the past 8000 years were obtained. Four most representative and long time series of the data have been constructed for Eurasia for the Iberian Peninsula, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia. Unique studies having no analogues in international research have been carried out into rapid variations in the geomagnetic field intensity with characteristic times starting from several tens of years. Based on the analysis of the international data on the ancient geomagnetic field, the spectrum of the variations in the geomagnetic field intensity with the periods ranging from decades to millennia was established and the characteristics ofthe variations whose superposition can describe the pattern of the changes of the geomagnetic field intensity were determined. It was found out that variations with different characteristic times have a differently directed drift, and the “main oscillation” with a characteristic time of 8000 years has an eastern drift.

scholarly journals A Regional Geochronological Study of Late Pleistocene Permafrost

Radiocarbon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Kostyukevich
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
North Central ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Geochronological Study ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The use of radiocarbon dating in geocryological investigations makes it possible to establish a chronology for permafrost-geological development during the Late Pleistocene. Both global and regional time scales for the formation of Late Pleistocene permafrost have been worked out over the past 15–20 years at the Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I present here results from study areas of northwestern Siberia and of North, Central and West Yakutia.

A Note on the Status of Origen's De Principiis in English

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Rombs
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Status

AbstractThe standard English translation of Origen's De principiis, translated by G.W. Butterworth and published in 1936, is based upon the earlier critical edition of Paul Koetschau. Origen's text survives through the Latin translation of Rufinus, a version that Koetschau fundamentally distrusted: Rufinus had admittedly expurgated Origen's text and could not, accordingly, be trusted. Hence the job of the editor and translator was judged to be the reestablishment—as far as was possible—of Origen's original text. Such suspicion of the text led to, among other problems, the awkward printing of parallel Greek and Latin passages in columns in Butterworth's English edition. Greek fragments and Origenistic material—that is to say, passages that were not direct quotations of De principiis, nor even directly Origen's—were inserted into Koetschau's text based upon presumed doctrinal parallels between those fragments and Origen's 'authentic' thought.We cannot reconstruct the Greek text; what we have inherited for better or worse is Rufinus's Latin translation of Peri archôn, a text that the more recent scholarship of G. Bardy and others have significantly rehabilitated confidence in. With the notable exception of English, translations of De principiis have been made in French, Italian and German, based upon more recent and more balanced critical editions. The author proposes a new English translation of Rufinus's Latin text based upon the critical edition of Henri Crouzel and Manlio Simonetti, published in the Sources Chrétiennes series.

scholarly journals THE WEST AND NON-WEST: A NEW APPROACH TO THE OLD DICHOTOMY

2016 ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
D. A. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Moscow Institute ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Book review: Martynov, B.F. The West and Non-West: the Past, the Present... the Future? Moscow: Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015. 172 p.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST THROUGH ARCHIVES’ WORLD… (DEDICATED TO THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIAN AND ARCHIVIST G.I. KAKAGASANOV)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Leyla G. Kaymarazova
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
Science Center ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Moscow State University

The Institute of history, archeology and ethnography of Daghestan science center of Russian academy of sciences has its own tradition to congratulate scientist with their anniversaries. The main biographical events of Gadjikurban Ibragimovich Kakagasanov, who is a famous Daghestan scientist, historian and archivist, were overviewed in the article. Author also writes about his main achievements in science and his way from being a student of Moscow state university of history and archive to becoming a director of science subdivision of leading scientific research institute of Dagyestan science center of Russian academy of sciences. Kakagasanov’s name is well known not only in science community, but also in wide circle of readers due to his scientific and documental publications dedicated to the newest period of Daghestan history, historiographical and source studies researches that were made under his guidance and also his participation in different science events’ organization and holding and science knowledge’s popularization.

Book review on "Immunology" (2021) authored by academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences R.M. Khaitov

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Philippova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Russian Scientist ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cis Countries ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The textbook "Immunology", 4th edition (published in September 2021), was prepared by a well-known Soviet and Russian scientist of world renown, immunologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Rakhim Musaevich Khaitov. The new edition is an updated, revised and enlarged version of the textbook, which over the past 15 years has become one of the best textbooks on immunology. It is used all over the place. Throughout Russia and in the CIS countries, by medical and biological students, physicians, researchers in the field of immunology and allergology, microbiology, virology, infectology, vaccinology and others related fields of science. So, the textbook "Immunology" by R.М. Khaitov is one of the best in Russia, one of the most demanded and recognized textbooks.

scholarly journals One hundred years in the networks of bureaucracy. Review of the book by V. V. Ogryzko “Pod nadzorom Kremlya: izryadno potrepannaya, no utselevshaya Akademiya nauk” [Under the supervision of the Kremlin: a fairly battered, but survived Academy of Sciences]

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-247
Author(s):  
Sergey Egerev
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Special Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

An excursion through the pages of the book by V. V. Ogryzko “Under the supervision of the Kremlin: a fairly battered, but survived Academy of Sciences” is given. The history of uneasy relations between the government and the Academy of Sciences can be traced from the first post-revolutionary years to the present day. The mostly detailed description relates to the efforts of the Soviet government to tame (“to Sovietize”) the Russian Academy of Sciences in the first post-revolutionary years. In his research, based on unique archival sources, the author operates with a large number of sources and a large number of activehistorical figures, from academics to employees of special services. It is noted that over the past hundred years, not only the Academy has changed, the methods of state influence on the academic community have changed, and the goal setting of the state has also changed. In the first decades, the Soviet government was faced with the task of introducing as many loyal communists as possible into the academic community, and after the collapse of the USSR, the task of “depriving” the Academy from material assets became firmly on the agenda. The author of the book – V. V. Ogryzko – comes to the conclusion that many discoveries andachievements of our scientists were made not thanks to the support of the state, but rather in spite of it.

History and philology at the Russian Academy of Sciences: The past decade

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
M. A. Nikitin ◽  
V. B. Perkhavko ◽  
V. B. Cherkasskii
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences
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