![]() But he confessed that experience alone was an undisciplined kind of knowledge. By placing great emphasis on experience, Gessner had amassed enough material to write four hefty volumes that far surpassed what anyone had known before about animals. The more material he uncovered, the more difficult it was to organize the natural world into distinctly logical patterns. Science is born from the collaboration of the two.” Gessner’s experience gathering materials for a new history of nature in the mid-sixteenth century gave him direct insight into the problems of combining reason and experience. “Reason comes to us from God experience depends on the will of man. “Reason and experience are the two pillars of scientific work,” he affirmed. ![]() In the midst of his great Historia animalium (History of Animals, 1551–8), the Swiss-German naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) offered the following reflection on the process of creating knowledge. ![]()
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![]() With the consolidation of the epigrammatic tradition in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE, the distinctively epigrammatic poetic discourse that had evolved in the 3rd century BCE was subsumed into the persona of the poet himself, who is now figured as the very embodiment of the epigrammatic tradition and genre. This process of generic self-definition begins with the earliest literary epigrammatists’ fusion of inscriptional epigram with elements drawn from other genres, sympotic and erotic poetry and heroic epic, and their exploitation of the formal and conceptual repertoire of epigram to thematize poetic discourse. In their authorial self-representations (the poetic ego or literary persona), their representation of other poets, and their thematization of poetry more generally, literary epigrammatists define, and successively redefine, the genre of epigram itself against the background of the literary tradition. ![]() This dissertation offers a new analysis of the treatment of poets and poetics in Greek literary epigram from the early Hellenistic Period (3rd century BCE) down to the early Roman Imperial Period (1st century CE). ![]() ![]() ![]() The recent Dune film adaptation, directed by Denis Villeneuve, covers just part (part!) of the very first (just the first!) novel. There are also short story collections and illustrated books. The ecological/fantasy epic/sci-fi (?) concept grew faster than unimpeded dunes and would go on to comprise six door-stopping novels, and then, after Herbert’s death in 1986, some 18 prequel novels authored by Herbert’s son, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. 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