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Word: apollonius (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mathematics and Science: Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristarchus, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Archimedes, Aristoxenus, Strabo, Leonardo, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Harvey, Gilbert, Newton, Leibnitz, Boyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Imperishable Thoughts | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Imperishable Thoughts | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...intellect and indifference, whose favorite reading in a hot New England summer is Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius Rhodius. In her Talifer imagined he saw an ideal of Peace, imagined he preferred it to the earthier happiness Althea offered him. Abruptly, after breaking with Althea to marry Karen, he was disillusioned, abruptly returned to his first love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light Without Heat | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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