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The Australian Handbook for Writers and Editors by Margaret McKenzie. 4th ed. ISBN 9781921606496. The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage by Pam Peters of Macquarie University. 2nd ed. ISBN 9780521702423. The Complete Guide to English Usage for Australian Students by Margaret Ramsay. 6th ed. ISBN 9780521702423.
Manasollasacomposed by king Someshvara IIIof the Western Chalukya Empire of India. Liber Floridus, compiled in 1120 by Lambert of St. Omer. Imago mundi, treaty of cosmographyand history by Honorius Augustodunensis, about 1110. De philosophia mundi, written about 1125–35 by William of Conches.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская ), born Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [ O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics ...
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Pistis Sophia (Koinē Greek: Πίστις Σοφία) is a Gnostic text discovered in 1773, [1] possibly written between the 3rd [2] and 4th centuries AD. [3] The existing manuscript, which some scholars place in the late 4th century, [4] relates one Gnostic group's teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples, including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha.
The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for 'British Encyclopaedia') is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors.
Hagia Sophia ( lit. ' Holy Wisdom '; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized : Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi ), [ 3] is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; second edition, 1990) is a two-volume index, published as volumes 2 and 3 of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ’s collection Great Books of the Western World. Compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher, under the guidance of Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, the ...