• Maximus Planudes (Greek: Μάξιμος Πλανούδης, Máximos Planoúdēs; c. 1260 – c. 1305) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician...
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  • called Doctor Maximus Maximus Planudes (c. 1260 – c. 1305), Greek monk, anthologist, translator and theologian Maximus of Aveia or Maximus of Aquila (died...
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    from Ptolemy's coordinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text,...
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    Maximus Planudes, a Byzantine grammarian and theologian, based on the Anthology of Cephalas. It comprises 2,400 epigrams. The Anthology of Planudes starts...
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    Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated...
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  • Constantinople, Callistus Telicoudes, Callistus Cataphugiota, Nicephorus monk, Maximus Planudes PG 148: Nicephorus Gregoras PG 149: Nicephorus Gregoras, Nilus Cabasilas...
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    manuscripts date from c. 1300 AD (after the text was rediscovered by Maximus Planudes), there are some scholars who think that such maps go back to Ptolemy...
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    a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus. The scholar Maximus Planudes also made an edition of the Greek Anthology, which while adding some...
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    earlier than the 13th century. A letter written by the Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes records that he searched for one for Chora Monastery in the summer...
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  • 9th century. The oldest surviving manuscripts of the work date to Maximus Planudes's restoration of the text a little before 1300 at Chora Monastery in...
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