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James Burgess (7) mentions the Tirthankaras or Jainas as being sectariaus of the Mystic Cross, the Swastika.
If used on sacrificial altars to reproduce the holy fire, the practice is peculiar and not derived from everyday life; for as early as Pliny they knew that the savages used two and never three, fire sticks.
It is needless to copy them, but is enough to say that they are the same size as the letters forming the inscription; that they all have four arms and the ends turn at right angles, or nearly so, indifferently to the right or to the left.
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 OLD NEWS Index - 1995-2005
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Curious to the end, he urged an assistant just before he died, ''Come again, and tell me all of your secrets.'' Baker was enamored of the mysteries of the natural plant world in the way his contemporary Luther Burbank was beguiled by how man could improve on nature.
In 1860, after the deaths of his wife and newborn son, Brewer was invited to participate in the Geological Survey of California, directed by Josiah Dwight Whitney.
Brodiaea: named for James Brodie (1744-1824), Scottish botanist who specialized in algae, ferns and mosses.
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 Apollo 15 Flight Journal - Orbital Science and Crew Rest
We were thinking of our trip together on top of Mount Whitney and we are with you in spirit on the Moon.
Pliny is credited with writing an encyclopedia on natural history which held sway until the middle ages.
With the 500-mm lens, the extent of Plinius cannot be captured in one shot.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/ap15fj/19orbital_science.htm   (19124 words)

  
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· Whitney, William Dwight (1971), "Phusei or Thesei", Whitney on Language, MIT Press, Cambridge.
· Whitney, William Dwight (1867), Language and the Study of Language, Charles Schribner and Co., NY.
· Liszka, James Jakób (1996), A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.
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 MedHist: The gateway to Internet resources for the History of Medicine
The site provides background information on the work of natural historians from Aristotle and Pliny in the ancient world, through to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The James Lind Library has been created to 'help people understand fair tests of treatments in health care by illustrating how fair tests have developed over the centuries'.
The essay is broken up into several chapters covering the subjects of mind-body dualism, the rise of experimental psychology and psychology in America.
www.medhist.ac.uk /browse/mesh/D049671.html   (8046 words)

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