comparanda

I racked my brain on this one, looking at all the available comparanda I could amass this past few days and my findings can be summarized as follows:

Archive 2010-08-01 2010

I racked my brain on this one, looking at all the available comparanda I could amass this past few days and my findings can be summarized as follows:

On to the kinnor 2010

Vittoria Perrone Compagni, in her 1992 edition of De occulta philosophia, demonstrated that the text of 1510 shows that Agrippa already knew the writings of Ficino in which he developed his concept of spiritual magic, De vita coelitus comparanda/On Drawing Life Down from the Heavans and parts of Theologia platonica, but at that point cited no other works of Ficino except his translations of the Hermetica.

Loss of Faith 2009

De vita coelitus comparanda, was to claim that the use of intelligent agents was intended to affect only the mind of the magus himself and not to control the external world.

Loss of Faith 2009

Much of the material in the latter part of the Chronicle is unique, but the earlier section, up to the beginning of the seventh century, consists largely of selections from sources some of the most important of which were in turn compendia of earlier works which are either extant or for which close comparanda exist.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor 2009

This is why I still think that the many instances in his lexical comparanda that suspiciously fail to show anything but PIE and Afro-Asiatic evidence may be, if not complete red herrings, mere post-Nostratic loanwords.

The early Illych-Svitych on Indo-European and early Semitic contacts 2008

This is why I still think that the many instances in his lexical comparanda that suspiciously fail to show anything but PIE and Afro-Asiatic evidence may be, if not complete red herrings, mere post-Nostratic loanwords.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

More weirdness from PEterson 2003: 6 of the 40 “clusters” contain only “urban” stations, no “rural” comparanda; one of the clusters contains only “suburban” stations; two of the clusters in the list contain no stations.

Peterson (2003) « Climate Audit 2007

One of his comparanda where there was no trend in maximum temperatures was Maatsuyker in the graphic.

The Maatsuyker Exclusion « Climate Audit 2007

Other comparanda are rare; one has to go to the fringes of the academy — to, say, remarks of Camille Paglia's about Foucault — to find hostility akin to that which the name "Paul de Man" has routinely inspired over the past thirty years.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005