Sentences with phrase «century monk named»
The last are probably the most relevant to the new paintings, since they evince the love of vintage books that led Polke to his inspiration: a treatise on optics by a 17th - century monk named Johann Zahn.
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The Ancient Greeks, Russians, Zen Vajrayana Monks, Native Americans, Japanese Shinto Monks (they call it «Misogi ``, or spirit cleansing) and Spartan Soldiers were well aware of the benefits of cold water, and in 18th century the modern revival of cold water treatments was re-discovered in Germany under the new name «Hydrotherapy».
Plus, as I've already mentioned, a monk named Calcidius espoused this view in the 5th century and was not branded a heretic for doing so.
«If it be assumed that the Monks took their name from the region in France in which they settled in the Eleventh Century, it still remains true that it became peculiarly their designation.
Did the meteoroid that crashed into the backside of the moon, leaving behind a 22 - kilometer - wide crater named Giordano Bruno, cause the peculiar fountain of moonlight reported by a 12th century monk, as some researchers claim?
Some historians had identified Geber as the translated name of an eighth - century Islamic alchemist, but Newman's research turned up evidence supporting a different interpretation: Geber was actually the alias of Paul of Taranto, an obscure Franciscan monk from southern Italy.
However, archaeologists realized in 1978 that Franciscan monks had corrupted the name from «Lam «an / ayin» to «Lamanai,» and that adding the correct suffix of «ayin» changed the meaning of the name to submerged crocodile, a conclusion supported by the large number of crocodile representations found at Lamanai, including figurines, pottery decorations and the headdress of a 13 foot limestone mask found on a 6th century temple platform.
In time, these monasteries came to be officially removed, but still, in the twelfth century, a group of thirty - one nuns nicknamed tuquinegras lived with a large number of monks, men who were supposed to protect and who were known by the name of milites.