Part 2 — BIBLIOGRAPHY (continued 2)
Reading edition
THEODORIC OF CHARTRES. De sex dierum operibus, edited by B. Hauréau, in his Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale, vol. i, Paris, 1890, pp. 52–68.
THEODRICUS MONACHUS. Historia de antiquitate regum norwagiensium, edited by G. Storm, in his Mon. hist. Norveg., 1880, pp. 1–68.
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Fundamental work on the subject. Contains many valuable bibliographical indications. The researches whose results are embodied in these volumes were largely made in manuscript sources.
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Particularly valuable for its bibliographical references.
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See also THEODERIC (Pilgrim).
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A wealth of material is here brought together in an attempt to demonstrate the almost universally adverse influence that theology (as distinguished from religion) has exerted on the development of scientific thought.
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WILLIAM OF TYRE. Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum, or Belli sacri historia, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades, Historiens Occidentaux, vol. i, Paris, 1844. Also in: Migne, Pat. lat., vol. cci, cols. 209–892. Medieval French translation edited by Paulin Paris, Guillaume de Tyr et ses continuateurs, 2 vols., Paris, 1879–1880.
Wisotzki, Emil. Zeitströmungen in der Geographie, Leipzig, 1897.
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Wolkenhauer, W. Aus der Geschichte der Kartographie, in: Deutsche geographische Blätter, vol. xxxiv, Bremen, 1911, pp. 120–129 (on the cartography of the Greeks and Romans), vol. xxxv, 1912, pp. 29–47 (on medieval and Moslem cartography).
A useful summary. Maps are listed and bibliographical data appended.
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Now superseded by Steinschneider, Europ. Übersetz., 1905–1906.
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York Powell, F. See SAXO GRAMMATICUS; Vigfusson, G., and F. York Powell.
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The best general account of the development of Western knowledge of the Far East in ancient and medieval times. Translations of the sources are given with commentaries. The introduction is an excellent outline of the entire subject.
See also POLO, MARCO.
Zarncke, Friedrich. See PRESTER JOHN.
ZARQALĪ, Az-. Canons on the Toledo Tables. Unpublished. On manuscripts, see Steinschneider, Études sur Zarkali, in: Bollettino, vol. xx, 1887, pp. 1–36, 575–604.
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A thorough study of the development of natural science in its relation to theology. The author attempts to show that medieval theology was not adverse to the growth of natural science. Analyses given of theories of the Creation.
Zunz, ——. Essay on the Geographical Literature of the Jews from the Remotest Times to the Year 1841, in: The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, edited by A. Asher, vol. ii, London and Berlin, 1841, pp. 230–317.
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