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Saverius Pace
Saverius Pace (17th century) was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in physics. Life Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birthplace in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the ''Collegium Melitense'' University of Malta, see in Valletta. Only one work of Pace's has survived. No portrait of Pace is known to exist so far. Known works Pace’s only work which is still extant is ''Elucidario in quatru libru Phisicoru Aristotelis'' (''An Examination of the first four Books of Aristotle’s ‘Physics’''), written in 1649 (begun in May of that year).''Ibid.'', p. 97. The manuscript is written in old Italian or Sicilian, and held at the National Library of Malta, Valletta, marked as MS. 1465. Its pages are not numbered. The work is a detailed philosophical examination of the first four out of the eight books of Aristotle’s ''Physics''. Its division is typical of Scholasticism, and hence or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies south of Sicily (Italy), east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese and English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of St. John, French, and British, amongst others. With a population of about 516,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country in area and fourth most densely populated sovereign cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
