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Samian earth
Samian Sa"mi*an, a. [L. Samius.] Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. --Byron. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samos, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

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- but states that terra sigillata is 'alternatively known as samian ware'. However, 'samian ware' is normally used only to refer to the sub-class of terra...
- medicinal earth. The eight kinds are: the terra sigillata, Egyptian earth, Samian earth, earth of Chios, Cimolean earth or pure clay (cimolite), soft earth, called...
- of Samos, the first known individual to propose that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Samian wine was well known in antiquity and is still produced on...
- Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, romanized: Pythagóras ho Sámios, lit. 'Pythagoras the Samian', or simply Πυθαγόρας; Πυθαγόρης in Ionian Gr****; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was...
- from the continent have been found at Sheepen, as have pieces of imported Samian pottery. Just inside the earthworks, at Lexden, are located the burial mounds...
- of Islam. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8023-7. Samian, A.L. (2011). "Reason and Spirit in Al-Biruni's Philosophy of Mathematics"...
- A for****c oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert...
- to refer to the gap or the abyss created by the separation of heaven and earth. Gr**** kháos (χάος) means 'emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss', related...
- against the Samians. When the Athenians ordered the two sides to stop fighting and submit the case to arbitration in Athens, the Samians refused. In response...
- heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a...