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"Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics."--Publisher description.

Metaphysics --- Early works to 1800.

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Natural history --- -Early works to 1800

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Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) --- Tantric Buddhism --- Doctrines --- Early works to 1800 --- Doctrines --- Early works to 1800

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Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

Architecture --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Philosophy.

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Intermediate state --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- Death (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Early works to 1800 --- bouddhisme --- Inconscient --- philosophies asiatiques --- Early works to 1800. --- Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Heaven --- Hell --- Purgatory --- Soul --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Lamaist --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Religious aspects --- Rituals --- Intermediate state - Buddhism - Early works to 1800. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist - China - Tibet - Early works to 1800. --- Death (Buddhism) - Early works to 1800. --- Intermediate state - Buddhism - Early works to 1800 --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist - China - Tibet - Early works to 1800 --- Death (Buddhism) - Early works to 1800 --- Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies - China - Tibet - Early works to 1800 --- Indian religions --- Tibet