the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (Greek: πίναξ; pl.: pinakes, πίνακες, meaning 'board') is a votive tablet...
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Pinax may refer to: Pinax, a votive tablet that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or burial chamber Pinakes, a 3rd-century-BCE work by...
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Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them...
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Ninnion Tablet (redirect from Ninnion pinax)
The Ninnion Tablet, dated to approximately 370 BC, is a red clay tablet depicting the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries (religious rites connected to...
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The Pinakes (Ancient Greek: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξ pinax) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly...
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Chionodes pinax is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[failed verification] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from southern British...
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applied: "Canis pugnax, a Butchers Bull or Bear Dog", as an entry in his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. The designation "bull" was applied because...
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Plantarum in 1753. But as early as 1622, Gaspard Bauhin introduced in his book Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) containing...
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Archive. London: Robert Hardwicke. p. 306. Merret, Christopher (1666). "Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia, et Fossilia"...
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prickly species growing in Egypt, from acacis meaning "a point". In his Pinax (1623), Bauhin mentioned the Greek ἀκακία from Dioscorides as the origin...
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