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  • 31medicine, history of — Introduction  the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 20th century. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Primitive (primitive culture) medicine and folklore       Unwritten history is not… …

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  • 32Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …

    History of philosophy

  • 33Hume on human understanding — David Hume on human understanding Anne Jaap Jacobson David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature1 was published before he was 30 years old. It is often said to be the greatest philosophical work written in English. Bold and ambitious, it is designed… …

    History of philosophy

  • 34at|trib´u|tor — at|trib|ute «verb. uh TRIHB yoot; noun. AT ruh byoot», verb, ut|ed, ut|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to think of as caused by; regard as an effect or product of: »We attribute Edison s success to intelligence and hard work. She attributes her great age to… …

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  • 35at|trib´ut|er — at|trib|ute «verb. uh TRIHB yoot; noun. AT ruh byoot», verb, ut|ed, ut|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to think of as caused by; regard as an effect or product of: »We attribute Edison s success to intelligence and hard work. She attributes her great age to… …

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  • 36at|trib´ut|a|ble — at|trib|ute «verb. uh TRIHB yoot; noun. AT ruh byoot», verb, ut|ed, ut|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to think of as caused by; regard as an effect or product of: »We attribute Edison s success to intelligence and hard work. She attributes her great age to… …

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  • 37at|trib|ute — «verb. uh TRIHB yoot; noun. AT ruh byoot», verb, ut|ed, ut|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to think of as caused by; regard as an effect or product of: »We attribute Edison s success to intelligence and hard work. She attributes her great age to a carefully… …

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  • 38historiography — historiographic /hi stawr ee euh graf ik, stohr /, historiographical, adj. historiographically, adv. /hi stawr ee og reuh fee, stohr /, n., pl. historiographies. 1. the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively. 2 …

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  • 39Jesus Christ — 1. Jesus (def. 1). 2. Jesus (def. 5). * * * Introduction also called  Jesus of Galilee  or  Jesus of Nazareth   born c. 6–4 BC, Bethlehem died c. AD 30, Jerusalem  founder of Christianity, one of the world s largest religions, and the incarnation …

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  • 40HISTORY — For Prehistory see archaeology ; for Biblical and Second Temple periods, see history . Destruction of the Second Temple until the Arab Conquest (70–640 C.E.) THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OF 66–70 C.E. The Jewish war against the Romans, which lasted… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism