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  Zeno (emperor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeno was compelled to shut himself up in a fortress and spent the next 20 months raising an army, largely made up of fellow Isaurians, and marched on Constantinople in August 476.
Zeno got rid of the problem in 487 by inducing him to invade Italy to fight Odoacer and establish his new kingdom there, all but eliminating the German presence in the east.
Zeno is described as a lax and indolent ruler, but he seems to have husbanded the resources of the empire so as to leave it appreciably stronger at his death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeno_of_the_Byzantine_Empire   (1061 words)

  
 Zeno of Citium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (333 BC-264 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus.
Zeno was the son of a merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece.
Zeno is also the first utopian anarchist in the west and thus an important precursor of the anarchism we know today.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeno_of_Citium   (495 words)

  
 Zeno of Elea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeno of Elea should not be confused with Zeno of Citium.
Although written nearly a century after Zeno's death, the primary source of biographical information of Zeno is the dialogue of Plato called the Parmenides [1].
Zeno's arguments are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called Reductio ad absurdum also known as proof by contradiction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeno_of_Elea   (892 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Zeno
Zeno died on 9 April 491 and was succeeded by Anastasius.
Zeno fled from the capital and Basiliscus was declared emperor, ruling for a year in 475-6.
Burgess, W.D., "Isaurian Factions in the Reign of Zeno the Isaurian", Latomus 51 (1992): 874-880.
www.roman-emperors.org /zeno.htm   (965 words)

  
 Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of paradoxes devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
Several of Zeno's eight surviving paradoxes (preserved in Aristotle's Physics and Simplicius's commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another; and most of them were regarded, even in ancient times, as very easy to refute.
Zeno's paradoxes were a major problem for ancient and medieval philosophers, who found most proposed solutions somewhat unsatisfactory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes   (2645 words)

  
 ZENO - LoveToKnow Article on ZENO
In the following year, in consequence of a revolt fomented by Verina in favor of her brother Basiliscus, and the antipathy to his Isaurian soldiers and administrators, he was compelled to take refuge in Isauria, where, after sustaining a defeat, he was compelled to shut himself up in a fortress.
Zeno is described as a lax and indolent ruler, but he seems to have husbanded tile resources of the empire so as to leave it appreciably stronger at his death.
In ecclesiastical history the name of Zeno is associated with the Henoticon or instrument of union, promulgated by him and signed by all the Eastern bishops, with the design of terminating the Monophysite controversy.
63.1911encyclopedia.org /Z/ZE/ZENO.htm   (427 words)

  
 Zeno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zeno was from Rosoumblada in the province in south-eastern Asia Minor known as Isauria.
In AD 467-8 Zeno was given the powerful position of 'Master of Soldiers' in Thrace to repel an assault by the Huns under the son of Attila, Denzig (Densegich).
Zeno though received a warning that his life was in danger and fled to his homeland of Isauria.
www.roman-empire.net /constant/zeno.html   (960 words)

  
 Zeno of Elea [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Zeno was an Eleatic philosopher, a native of Elea (Velia) in Italy, son of Teleutagoras, and the favorite disciple of Parmenides.
Zeno is said to have taken part in the legislation of Parmenides, to the maintenance of which the citizens of Elea had pledged themselves every year by oath.
Zeno showed that the common sense notion of reality leads to consequences at least as paradoxical as his master's.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/z/zenoelea.htm   (2118 words)

  
 Phoenician Zeno of Citium
None of Zeno's works have survived; all we know of him is contained in a few quotations and anecdotes in the works of his followers and critics.
Zeno was born in 333 B.C. in Citium, a principal Phoenician city in Cyprus, situated on the southeast coast near modern Larnaca.
Zeno was overly conscious of social propriety (a habit which he always found hard to shake, despite his anarchistic views), and Crates attempted to cure this by making him carry a pot of lentils through the streets of Athens.
www.phoenicia.org /zenocit.html   (1322 words)

  
 Zeno_of_Elea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zeno was a pupil and friend of the philosopher Parmenides and studied with him in Elea.
Zeno had already written a work on philosophy before his visit to Athens and Plato reports that Zeno's book meant that he had achieved a certain fame in Athens before his visit there.
Zeno bases both the dichotomy paradox and the attack on simple pluralism on the fact that once a thing is divisible, then it is infinitely divisible.
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Zeno_of_Elea.html   (2157 words)

  
 Zeno's Paradoxes
Second, from this Zeno argues that it follows that they do not exist at all; since the result of joining (or removing) a sizeless object to anything is no change at all, he concludes that the thing added (or removed) is literally nothing.
Thus we answer Zeno as follows: the argument assumed that the size of the body was a sum of the sizes of the point parts, but that is not the case; according to modern mathematics, a line is an uncountable infinity of points plus a distance function.
Zeno abolishes motion, saying "What is in motion moves neither in the place it is nor in one in which it is not".
plato.stanford.edu /entries/paradox-zeno   (10026 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | Parmenides by Plato
Zeno was nearly 40 years of age, tall and fair to look upon; in the days of his youth he was reported to have been beloved by Parmenides.
These Zeno himself read to them in the absence of Parmenides, and had very nearly finished when Pythodorus entered, and with him Parmenides and Aristoteles who was afterwards one of the Thirty, and heard the little that remained of the dialogue.
That which you heard Zeno practising; at the same time, I give you credit for saying to him that you did not care to examine the perplexity in reference to visible things, or to consider the question that way; but only in reference to objects of thought, and to what may be called ideas.
classics.mit.edu /Plato/parmenides.html   (9515 words)

  
 Math Forum: Zeno's Paradox
The great Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (born sometime between 495 and 480 B.C.) proposed four paradoxes in an effort to challenge the accepted notions of space and time that he encountered in various philosophical circles.
Zeno's paradoxes focus on the relation of the discrete to the continuous, an issue that is at the very heart of mathematics.
Zeno's first paradox attacks the notion held by many philosophers of his day that space was infinitely divisible, and that motion was therefore continuous.
mathforum.org /isaac/problems/zeno1.html   (257 words)

  
 Campbell2002
Zeno's paradoxes have been a source of inspiration and bewilderment for almost two and a half thousand years.
Of all Zeno's paradoxes, the most renown, or at least the most familiar, are his paradoxes of motion.
According to Plato, Zeno confesses, in response to the dogged questioning of the latter's young Socrates, to have composed in his collection of paradoxes of plurality simply in defense of Parmenides, who had been coming under heavy ridicule for his position regarding the one.
www.aug.edu /dvskel/Campbell2002.htm   (4024 words)

  
 Zeno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zeno of Elea, born approximately 490-485 BC, was a follower of Parmenides, said to be his favorite.
Zeno is most well-known for his four paradoxes of motion, which argue against the possibility of motion as we see it.
Each of Zeno's paradoxes can be explained in some way by more modern concepts of thought and motion, and they have been further explained and analysed from Aristotle's time to the modern day.
www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Kristen/Zeno1.html   (560 words)

  
 Zeno of Citium, founder of the Stoic Philosophy
Zeno was the son of Mnaseas, a merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes.
Zeno was, himself, a merchant until the age of 42, when he started a school.
This is the porch were Zeno of Citium used to teach, toward the beginning of the 3rd century BC, the first principles of what would become known as a result as "Stoic" philosophy, from the Greek word "stoa", meaning "porch".
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Live/Writer/ZenoCitium.htm   (668 words)

  
 Zeno's Paradoxes
Zeno of Elea was an ancient Greek (born around 490 B.C.) who lived in what is now southern Italy.
Zeno's writings have not survived, so his paradoxes are known to us chiefly through Aristotle's criticisms of them.
Zeno also argued against the notion that there is a plurality of objects, for the common sense world of spatially extended objects is supposedly an illusion.
members.aol.com /kiekeben/zeno.html   (1709 words)

  
 10.12. Zeno of Elea (495?-435? B.C.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zeno was born in the Greek colony of Elea in southern Italy around 495 B.C. Very little is known about him.
Zeno was a philosopher and logician, not a mathematician.
Zeno's paradoxes attempted to show that holding the opposite position, that reality was many, was contradictory and absurd.
www.shu.edu /projects/reals/history/zeno.html   (826 words)

  
 Zeno of Cittium: founder of Stoicism.
The school was founded by Zeno of Cittium in Cyprus, one of antiquity's boldest yet least known thinkers.
He is not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who earned far greater fame from a handful of paradoxes, designed to prove true by logic what everyone, from experience, knows to be false: that motion and change are impossible.
Zeno seems to have been quite old when he himself began teaching to small groups, in a painted colonnade on the Athenian agora known as the Stoa Poikile.
members.aol.com /Heraklit1/zeno.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Zeno home page.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The objective of the Zeno experiment is to measure the decay rates of critical density fluctuations in a simple fluid (xenon) very near its liquid-vapor critical point using laser light scattering and photon correlation spectroscopy, in the microgravity environment of the Space Shuttle.
For a really gorgeous view of Zeno on the USMP-2 payload in Columbia's cargo bay, taken by the crew during the mission, download this file in JPEG format (200 kbytes).
Zeno was developed under the auspices of the Space Experiments Division of NASA/Lewis Research Center, in Cleveland Ohio.
www.zeno.umd.edu   (347 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Zeno of Elea
Zeno's contribution to the literature of the school consisted of a treatise, now lost, in which, according to Plato, he argued indirectly against the reality of motion and the existence of the manifold.
Aristotle in his "Physics" has preserved the arguments by which Zeno tried to prove that motion is only apparent, or that real motion is an absurdity.
They earned for Zeno the title of "the first dialectician," and, because they seemed to be an unanswerable challenge to those who relied on the verdict of the senses, they helped to prepare the way for the skepticism of the Sophists.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15756b.htm   (341 words)

  
 Mathematical mysteries: Zeno's Paradoxes
Zeno, born approximately 490 BC in southern Italy, have puzzled mathematicians, scientists and philosophers for millennia.
Zeno's argument is based on the assumption that you can infinitely divide space (the race track) and time (how long it takes to run).
Arrow, Zeno also shows that the assumption that the universe consists of finite, indivisible elements is apparently incorrect.
plus.maths.org /issue17/xfile   (1043 words)

  
 Zeno's Paradox
The four Paradoxes of Zeno, which attempt to show that motion is impossible, are most conveniently treated as two pairs of paradoxes.
Zeno, it seems, believed quite seriously that motion did not exist and that arguments such as these established it.
Further, this reply seems to miss the point of Zeno's argument: simply pointing out that there is a branch of mathematics that deals with the infinite does not reduce the puzzling aspects of the Paradoxes.
www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/paradox5.htm   (765 words)

  
 The ZENO Temporal Planner
Since ZENO relies on constraint satisfaction for all temporal and metric aspects reasoning, sound and efficient algorithms are essential.
Mathematical formulae posted by ZENO are parsed dynamically into a set of linear equations, inequalities, and pairwise nonlinear equations.
ZENO uses the incremental version of the phase one Simplex algorithm, devised for the CLP(R) programming language.
www.cs.washington.edu /ai/zeno.html   (298 words)

  
 Zeno's race course, part 1
Zeno argues that it is impossible for a runner to traverse a race course.
Since Zeno was generalizing about all motion, his conclusion was either (a) that no motion could be completed or (b) that no motion could be begun.
Aristotle assumed that (b) was what Zeno intended (and he based his refutation on that assumption).
faculty.washington.edu /smcohen/320/zeno1.htm   (943 words)

  
 ZENO Data Acquisition Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ZENO® 3200 is capable of monitoring many sensors, communicating with "smart" serial sensors, making decisions, performing actions and then reporting via some form of telemetry from literally anywhere in the world.
ZENO® Menu Commands, however, if a choice you need is not listed ask us - it may be coming up in the next version of firmware - or we can most likely put it into the firmware soon.
If disrupted, ZENO® 3200 will automatically reboot using the settings that were entered, allowing it to be set up in the office and shipped without programming the unit in the field.
www.coastalenvironmental.com /cgi/index2.php?section=tech&content=zeno   (670 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Zeno
From these it appears that Zeno was a native of Africa, eighth Bishop of Verona (362-80), an able speaker, and an untiring champion of Christianity against the heathens and of orthodoxy against the Arians.
Much controversy arose as to the time at which St. Zeno lives, whether two bishops of Verona of this name were to be admitted or but one, and on the authorship of the sermons.
Zeno (6); BARDENHEWER, Patrologie (Freiburg, 1910), 362; Zeitschrift fur kath.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15754d.htm   (498 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Zeno's Conscience : A Novel (Vintage International): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zeno will begin a sentence telling us he still loves Ada very much and then end it by saying he feels nothing for her at all.
And still Zeno is not an annoying man: you can feel his desire to be like the other people, he knows what he is doing and at the end we see that he can act, but only when the stimuli are strong enough.
Zeno tells us about his father's death, the story of his courtship of Ada and his marriage to Ada's ugly (cross-eyed)sister Augusta, a wonderful woman who loves Zeno very much, although he cheats on her constantly.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727760?v=glance   (2269 words)

  
 Strange New Products: Zeno Zit Zapper
Tyrell, Inc. has a product out called "Zeno", designed to remove a pimple from your skin by zapping it with heat.
Zeno's treatment regimen is two to three treatment cycles of two and a half minutes each over 12 to 24 hours, and is said to remove 90% of acne blemishes within 24 hours.
Zeno is the first FDA-cleared medical device designed for over-the-counter use on mild to moderate inflammatory acne.
www.strangenewproducts.com /2005/09/zeno-zit-zapper.html   (400 words)

  
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Zeno of Citium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elias) was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which (along with its rival, Epicureanism) came to dominate the thinking of the Hellenistic world, and later, the Roman Empire, with some elements of Stoic thought even influencing early Christianity.
Zeno was born in 333 B.C. in the town of Citium, a Greek colony which also had a large Phoenician population; Zeno himself may well have had Phoenician ancestry.
For most of his youth he was a merchant, but, so the story has it, at the age of thirty, he was shipwrecked while transporting purple dye from Phoenicia to Peiraeus.
neptune.spaceports.com /~words/zeno.html   (1175 words)

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