Institutiones

Institutiones
Author: Gaius
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1584774401

Mears, T. Lambert, Translator. The Institutes of Gaius and Justinian, The Twelve Tables, and the CXVIIIth and CXXVIIth Novels, With Introductions and Translation. London: Stevens and Sons, 1882. lx, 626 pp. Reprint available August 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-440-1. Cloth. $150. * With an extensive introduction. Mears arranged both Institutes in parallel columns to facilitate comparisons between them. Passages copied from Gaius are printed in italics. The two Novels, which deal with intestate succession, are included because they supplanted the part of Justinian's Institutes that deals with this subject. This compilation offers an excellent introduction to Roman law and its evolution from the first to sixth centuries, CE.

Justinian's Institutes

Justinian's Institutes
Author: Justinian I (Emperor of the East)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801494000

The Month

The Month
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 756
Release: 1900
Genre: Christianity
ISBN:

Foundations of Differential Calculus

Foundations of Differential Calculus
Author: Euler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2006-05-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387226451

The positive response to the publication of Blanton's English translations of Euler's "Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite" confirmed the relevance of this 240 year old work and encouraged Blanton to translate Euler's "Foundations of Differential Calculus" as well. The current book constitutes just the first 9 out of 27 chapters. The remaining chapters will be published at a later time. With this new translation, Euler's thoughts will not only be more accessible but more widely enjoyed by the mathematical community.

On the Christian Religion

On the Christian Religion
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2022-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1487543565

This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. On the Christian Religion is this Florentine humanist’s attempt to lay out the history of the religion of Christ, the Logos ("Word" or "Reason"), in accordance with the doctrines of ancient philosophy. The work –focuses on how Christ in his pre-incarnate form was revealed as much to certain ancient pagan sages and prophets as to those of the Old Testament, and how both groups played an equal role in foreshadowing the ultimate fulfilment of all the world’s religions in Christianity. The first part elucidates the history of the prisca theologia – the ancient theology – a single natural religion shared by the likes of Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus, Orpheus, Aglaophemus, Pythagoras, and Plato, and how it was fulfilled by Christ’s Incarnation and the spread of his Church through his apostles. The second part of the work, however, constitutes a series of attacks against the ways in which the books of the Old Testament were variously interpreted by Islamic and, more importantly, Jewish sages who threatened Ficino’s own Christological interpretations of Scripture. This new English translation includes an introduction that situates the text within the broader scope of Ficino’s intellectual activity and historical context. The book allows us to encounter a more nuanced image of Ficino, that of him as a theologian, historian, and anti-Jewish, anti-Islamic, anti-pagan polemicist.