Notable People (3)

This is the last page from the Notable People ‘series’. Enjoy!

[+]Lockian: pertaining to the philosophy of John Locke [1632 – 1704]. Visit Oregon State Univ. for a timeline and check out Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for more about his beliefs.
[+]Parnellism: the principles and policy of Charles Stewart Parnell [1846 – 1891] who sought to promote Home Rule for Ireland. Visit guide to Irish Resources and check out New Advent’s entry on Ireland.
[+]Pars(ee)(i): descendant of the Zoroastrians who emigrated from Persia to India in the 8th century. Visit this Britannica blurb on this sect and find out more at the South Asian Journalist’s Assn.
[+]Memnon: an Ethiopian king who fought for the Trojans; A statue of Amenoph III at Thebes in Egypt thought by the Greeks to be of Memnon and to give out a musical sound at sunrise in salutation of his mother, Eos (goddess of dawn). He was killed by Achilles.
[+]Mobius strip: the one sided surface formed by joining together the twon ends of a long rectangular strip, one end being twisted through 180 before the join is made (August Ferdinand M̦bius [1790 Р1868], a nineteenth century German mathematician and astronomer, who was a pioneer in the field of topology. He and his contemporaries created a non-Euclidean revolution in geometry (Source: Community Technical College and Wolfram)

[+]Archimedean spiral: the curve described by a point moving uniformly along a uniformly revolving radius vector, its polar equation being rθ1/t. Read more about the spiral at Wolfram, and Planet Math.
[+]Augustan: pertaining to Emperor Augustus (63BC-14AD) or to the time in which he reigned [31BC – AD 14]. Get a brief timeline at Rutgers and check out Mind Magic‘s entry on him.
[+]Ptolemies: Greek kings of Egypt [from Alex’s general to Caesar’s son]. The Ptolemaic period lasted from 323 to 30 BC. It is called “Ptolemaic” after the names of the kings of Egypt at the time: Ptolemy I to XIV (Duke Univ.). Read more about the Ptolemaic Dynasty
[+]Graafian: pertaining to Dutch anatomist, Regnier de Graaf [1641 – 1673] who discovered the Graafian follicles (the final mature antral follicle released by ovulation). According to Univ. of New South Wales, he did his doctoral thesis on the pancreas and identified the function of the ovarian follicle. Read more about him at Rice University.
[+]Juvenalian: of Roman satirist, Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis [1st – 2nd century AD]. According to Answers.com, his verse established a model for the satire of indignation, in contrast to the less harsh satire of ridicule of Horace. Visit Univ. of Minnesota for more tidbits.
[+]Kaisar-i-hind: title from 1876 to 1947 of the British monarch. It allegedly means “Caesar of India.” (Source: From Old Books).
[+]Amerigo Vespucci: Italian navigator who was the first to establish that the New World discovered by Columbus was a new continent i.e. America named after Amerigo in his honor. Read about him from About.com, Univ. of Houston, and at InfoPlease
[+]Arminian: follower of Arminius [1560 – 1607] who denied the Calvinistic doctrine of absolute predestination as well as irresistible grace. Read about his beliefs. He was born in Holland and opposed the chief tenets of Calvinism. The Synod of Dort (his trial) resulted in the political triumph of the Calvinists, and the expulsion of the Remonstrants (or Arminians) (Source: Russian News Network)
[+]Drakon: name of a cruel Athenian law giver. Read about his policies and predecessors. He committed an Athenian code of laws to paper for the first time. His code included many strict penalties and death sentences, often for what seemed to be minor offenses.
[+]Thales of Miletus: [c. 640 BC – c. 547 BC] philosopher, mathematician, statesman and astronomer. He predicted total eclipse of the sun on May 25, 585BC. He was born mid 620s BCE in Miletus, Asia Minor (now Turkey) and died about 546 BC in Miletos, Turkey. Read more about him here and the MacTutor Archives.
[+]Miltiades: Athenian general who won decisive victory over the Persians at Marathon (490 BC) [c. 540 – 498 BC]. Read about him from InfoPlease and In2Greece.
[+]Titus Annis Papianus Milo [c. 95 – 48 BC] : Roman tribune (57BC) was accused of murder and was defended in the “Pro Milone” (52BC) speech that Cicero did not dare deliver.
[+]Cimon [c. 502 – 449 BC]: Athenian statesman and general who defeated the Persians at Eurymedon (c. 46 BC) and became the chief statesman of Athens until c. 461 BC.
[+]Poiseuille’s law: the law stating that the rate of flow of a liquid through a tube varies directly with the pressure and the fourth power of the diameter of the tube and inversely with the length of the bue and the coefficient of viscosity for laminar (i.e. non turbulent) flow (after Jean Poiseuille). Visit Georgia State and Harvard Universities for more on this law.
[+]Poisson’s ratio: the ratio between lateral and longitudinal strains in a stretched wire or rod (after Simeon Denis [1781 – 1840] French mathematician and physicist). See what Univ. of Wisconscin and Univ. of Michigan have to say about this.
[+]Hyksos: Asiatic invaders who ruled Egypt approximately from 17th – 16th c. BC. Visit this this site and at Egypt’s History.
[+]Hyades: group of stars in Taurus near Pleiades whose helical rising was thought to foretell rain. Read about the Hyades at Dome of the Sky, here, and Starry Skies.
[+]Pythagoras: philosopher of Samos (ca. 560-ca. 480 BC) said to have believed in transmigration of souls and explanation of the universe in terms of numbers. Get a load of him at Wolfram, IEP and About.com. He was pre-Socratic.
[+]Septuagint: Greek version of the Old Testament including the Apocrypha said to have been made about 270 BC by 72 translators. Get excerts at Christian Classics. It is said to be the most ancient translation of the Old Testament (New Advent). According to About.com, the earliest source for the story of the Septuagint is the Letter of Aristeas, a lengthy document that recalls how Ptolemy (Philadelphus II [285–247 BCE]), desiring to augment his library in Alexandria, Egypt, commissioned a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek (Source: Catholic Univ. of America
[+]Bahai: religious faith developed from Babi by Bahaullah (d. 1892), emphasizing unity of mankind and its religions and world peace
[+]Pyrrhonism: sceptic philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis (c. 300 BC), doctrine that certainty of knowledge is unattainable. Read more about Pyrrho from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Notre Dame. Get more about him from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
[+]Van der Waals equation: an equation of state for gases and vapors that is related to the ideal gas law but which takes into account the actual volume of the gas molecules and the effect of intra- molecular attractions between them (p + (a/v)) (V – b) = nRT where P = pressure, V = volume, T = temperature in Kelvin, R = the gas constant, n = number of moles while a & b are constants which depend on the gas. It describes the behaviour of gases over a considerable wider range of pressure than the ideal gas law.
[+]Xenocrates (died 314 BC in Athens): Greek philosopher and disciple of Plato [396 – 314BC]. Read about him on Britannica and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Don’t forget to view his MacTutor biography.
[+]Xenakis, Yannis (1922 – 2001) greek composer and pupil of Messiane. Read about him at Naxos.com and Greek Music.
[+]Euergetes I [246 – 222BC] 3rd Ptolemy built the entrance to Karnak temples in Egypt. Read about the House of Ptolemy by Univ. of Chicago and at Egypt History