Guillaume Postel (25 March 1510 – 6 September 1581) was a French linguist, Orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor...
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Postel is a surname, and may refer to: Guillaume Postel (1510–1581), French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, and religious universalist Christian...
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Azimuthal equidistant projection (redirect from Postel projection)
1569 map. In France and Russia this projection is named "Postel projection" after Guillaume Postel, who used it for a map in 1581. Many modern star chart...
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Grrrr... Guillaume Pellicier, French diplomat Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold, French piano maker Guillaume Postel, French linguist, orientalist, astronomer,...
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soon visited France, one in 1533, and another the following year. Guillaume Postel became the first French Orientalist after 1536, when he went to Constantinople...
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analysis of Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic was published in Latin in 1538 by Guillaume Postel. Almost two centuries later, Hiob Ludolf described the similarities...
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recommendation of humanist Guillaume Budé. Students at the Collège could study Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, then Arabic under Guillaume Postel beginning in 1539...
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from him, and in him." In this interpretation, Rabelais was following Guillaume Postel in his De orbis terrae concordia. The nineteenth-century visionary...
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his alliance. Authors wrote about the Ottoman civilization, such as Guillaume Postel or Christophe Richer, in sometimes extremely positive ways. In the...
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is, according to Mark Sameth, consistent with a theory put forth by Guillaume Postel (16th century) and Michelangelo Lanci [it] (19th century) that the...
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