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ANTHEMIUS , See also:Greek mathematician and architect, who produced, under the patronage of Justinian (A.D. 532), the See also:original and daring plans for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Sophia in See also:Constantinople, which strikingly displayed at once his knowledge and his See also:ignorance. He was one of five, brothers—the sons of Stephanus, a physician of Tralles—who were all more or less eminent in their respective departments. Dioscorus followed his See also:father's profession in his native See also:place; See also:Alexander became at See also:Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; See also:Olympias was deeply versed in See also:Roman See also:jurisprudence; and See also:Metrodorus was one of the distinguished grammarians of the See also:great Eastern See also:capital. It is related of Anthemius that, having a See also:quarrel with his next-See also:door See also:neighbour See also:Zeno, he annoyed him in two ways. First, he made a number of leathern tubes the ends of which he contrived to See also:fix among the joists and flooring of a See also:fine upper-See also:room in which Zeno entertained his See also:friends, and then subjected it to a See also:miniature See also:earthquake by sending See also:steam through the tubes. Secondly, he simulated See also:thunder and See also:lightning, the latter by flashing in Zeno's eyes an intolerable See also:light from a slightly hollowed See also:mirror. Certain it is that he wrote a See also:treatise on burning-glasses. A fragment of this was published under the See also:title IIep1 irapa66 cev pnxavgA6,ro.v by L. See also:Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the See also:forty-second See also:volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. See also:des Incr.; A. Westermann gave a revised edition of it in his lIapabot-aypacpaa (Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci), 1839. In the course of constructions for surfaces to reflect to one and the same point (1) all rays in whatever direction passing through another point, (2) a set of parallel rays, Anthemius assumes a See also:property of an See also:ellipse not found in See also:Apollonius (the equality of the angles subtended at a See also:focus by two tangents See also:drawn from a point), and (having given the focus and a See also:double See also:ordinate) he uses the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola—the first instance on See also:record of the See also:practical use of the directrix.
On Anthemius generally, see See also:Procopius, De Aedific. i. 1; See also:Agathias, Hist. v. 6-9; See also:Gibbon's Decline and Fall, cap. xl. (T. L.
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