de naturis rerum造句

• Aczel traces the earliest written reference to the compass to 1187, in " De Naturis Rerum, " by Alexander Neckam, an English Augustinian monk.
• In his " De utensilibus " and " De naturis rerum " ( both written at about 1190 ), Neckam has preserved to us the earliest European notices of the magnetized needle as a guide to seamen and the earliest European description of the compass.
• According to Alexander Neckam's " De naturis rerum " ( ca 1180 ), the cockatrice was the product of an egg laid by a cock ( a male chicken ) and incubated by a toad; a snake might be substituted in re-tellings.
• However, " De naturis rerum " itself was written as a preface to Neckam's commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, itself a part of a wider programme of biblical commentary encompassing the Song of Solomon and the Psalms, representing the three branches of wisdom literature.
• Out of all Neckam's writings on natural history, the " De naturis rerum ", a sort of manual of the scientific knowledge of the 12th century, is by far the most important : the magnet passage referred to above is in Book 2, Chapter 98 ( " De vi attractiva " ), p . 183 of Wright's edition.