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    archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ("On the Natures of Things"). He also wrote treatises on education...
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  • Wright's edition of Neckam's De naturis rerum and De laudibus divinae sapientiae in the Rolls Series (1863), and of the De utensilibus in his Volume of...
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  • an encyclopedia Hrabanus Maurus, 842. De rerum naturis (On the nature of things), derived from Isidore's text De Administrando Imperio, a domestic and...
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    The most popular encyclopedia of the Carolingian Age was the De universo or De rerum naturis by Rabanus Maurus, written about 830, which was based on the...
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  • have not survived. Wrote De motu cordis (On the Motion of the Heart) and dedicated it to Alexander Nequam. De naturis Rerum De Educatione Accipitrum (On...
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  • List of editiones principes in Latin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    ep. (De natura rerum, Chronica, De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, Regula monachorum, Epistulae, Versus sancti Isidori, Liber numerorum, De haeresibus)"...
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  • member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum ("On the Properties of Things"), dated c.1240, an early forerunner...
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    Naturalis Historia 847 AD – Rabanus Maurus authors the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ('On the Nature of Things'). Medieval period – the great chain of being...
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  • Historiarum. 1217 – Alexander Neckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature of Things"), a scientific encyclopedia. 1220 – A new...
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    this refers to the Nile crocodile. According to Alexander Neckam's De naturis rerum (ca 1180), the basilisk (basiliscus) was the product of an egg laid...
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