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...monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole...
...Codex Sinaiticus. dating from the 4th Century, contains all the New Testament, scraps of the Old. In antiquity it vies only with the Codex Vaticanus which has been in the Vatican's possession for centuries. Next oldest biblical text is the Codex Alexandrinus of the late 4th or 5th Century, now possessed by the British Museum...
...from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
...Hatch '98, Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament. Episcopal Theological School, to obtain photographs of the minatures in the manuscript Codex Hierosol 14 in the Greek Patriarchal Library in Jerusalem...
...cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science of these first Americans when we consider the fact in an old Maya book, the Dresden Codex, are computations involving nearly twelve and a half million days, or about 34.000 years...