Events Tagged: "catalog"

Pliny catalogs 91 wine varieties - Natural History describes wine regions, vintages, production methods, medical uses

Irenaeus writes Against Heresies - Five books exposing and refuting Gnostic sects, especially Valentinians, first systematic heresiology

Hippolytus writes Refutation of All Heresies - Traces heresies to pagan philosophy, describes 33 Gnostic groups

Epiphanius writes Panarion (Medicine Chest) - Describes 80 heresies as poisonous animals, massive compilation

Philastrius writes Book of Various Heresies - Lists 156 heresies (28 Jewish, 128 Christian), most comprehensive catalog

Augustine writes On Heresies - Describes 88 heresies, more systematic than predecessors

John of Damascus writes On Heresies - First to include Islam as Christian heresy, Eastern perspective

Conrad Gesner catalogs Alpine dragons - Swiss naturalist describes various dragon species in the Alps with witness accounts (Historia Animalium)

Halley applies gravitational mathematics to calculate precise positions of southern hemisphere stars in his star catalog