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See also:PHILOPONUS, JOANNES (See also:JOHN THE GRAMMARIAN) , See also:Greek philosopher of See also:Alexandria, lived in the later See also:part of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th See also:century of our era. The surname Grammaticus he assumed in virtue of his lectures on See also:language and literature; that of Philoponus owing to the large number of See also:treatises he composed. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Ammonius Hermiae, and is supposed to have written the See also:life of See also:Aristotle sometimes attributed to his See also:master. To Philoponus are attributed a large number of See also:works on See also:theology and See also:philosophy. It is said that, though he was a pupil of Ammonius, he was at first a See also:Christian, and he has been credited with the authorship of a commentary on the See also:Mosaic See also:Cosmogony in eight books, dedicated to See also:Sergius, See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople, and edited by Balthasar See also:Corderius in 163o. Other authorities maintain that this, as well as the Disputatio de paschale, was the See also:work of another author, John the Tritheist. It was perhaps this Philoponus who tried to See also:save the Alexandrian library from the See also:caliph See also:Omar after Amu's victory in 639.
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The more certain writings of Philoponus consist of commentaries on Aristotle. These include works on the Physica, the See also:Prior and the Posterior Analytics, the Meteorologica, the De anima, the De generations' animalium, the De generatione et interitu and the Metaphysica. These have been frequently edited and are interesting in connexion with the See also:adoption of Aristotelianism by the Christian 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. They seem to have embodied the lectures of Ammonius with additions by Philoponus, and are remarkable rather for elaborate care than for originality and insight. He wrote also an attack on See also:Proclus (De aeternitate mundi). Two treatises on See also:mathematics are ascribed to him: A Commentary on the Mathematics of See also:Nicomachus, edited by See also:Hoche (1864 and 1867), and a See also:Treatise on the Use of the See also:Astrolabe, published by See also:Hase. The latter is the most See also:ancient work on this See also:instrument, and its authenticity is rendered almost certain by its reference to Ammonius as the master of the author.
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