Classical scholar Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) studied at Balliol College, Oxford, under... Læs mere
This two-volume edition (with commentary in Latin) of the surviving fragments of the works of minor Greek historians was published by German philologist Ludwig August Dindorf in... Læs mere
Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things is one of the great examples of Latin literature and Karl Lachmann's edition of the work from 1850 can be considered the... Læs mere
French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) spent two years collecting specimens in... Læs mere
This two-volume work, published 1880–99, contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300–1454, illustrating Venice's dealings with... Læs mere
A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains the authoritative text. Volume 3 describes the working out of horoscopes.
This 1809 Latin work by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) offered a streamlined and sophisticated method... Læs mere
A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains... Læs mere
This edition of the so-called 'Collectio Avellana' was published in two volumes, with a... Læs mere
This edition of the so-called 'Collectio Avellana' was published in two volumes, with a... Læs mere
A description of the known world at the beginning of the Roman Empire, Strabo's great work is reissued here in the 1853 Didot edition prepared by the... Læs mere
Between 1835 and 1839, the philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853) published these analyses of the... Læs mere