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Bessarion (bĕsâr`ēən), 1395?–1472, Byzantine humanist, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a leading figure at the Council of Ferrara-Florence Ferrara-Florence, Council of, 1438–45, second part of the 17th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church; the first part was the Council of Basel, canonically convened but after 1437 schismatic (see Basel, Council of).
..... Click the link for more information. , which he attended as metropolitan of Nicaea. He favored ending the schism between East and West, and when the Orthodox Church refused, he joined the Roman Catholic Church and remained in Italy. He was made a cardinal in 1439, and in 1463 the pope named him patriarch of Constantinople. A projected translation into Latin of Ptolemy was completed by his protégés, Purbach and Regiomontanus Regiomontanus [Lat.,=belonging to the royal mountain, i.e., to Königsberg], 1436–76, German astronomer and mathematician, b. Königsberg. His original name was Johannes Müller.
..... Click the link for more information. . His fine collection of Greek manuscripts was the nucleus of St. Mark's library, Venice.

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No references found	Examples include Bessarion B (Figure 7) and Segner C (Figure 8). Cassini A: the nature of the 'Washbowl' described by Wilkins & Moore ... by Lena, Raffaello; Douglass, Eric; Bregante, Maria Teresa; Mengoli, Giorgio / Journal of the British Astronomical Association 9783515090612 Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas; from Regiomontanus' acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ. Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas; from Regiomontanus' ... by Reference & Research Book News Other famous contributions were George of Trebizond's Comparison of the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato (1458) and, as a response to this, Against Plato's Calumniator (1469) by Cardinal Bessarion, who had been a student of Plethon in his youth. Nicolaus Scutellius, O.S.A., as Pseudo-Pletho: The Sixteenth-Century ... by Nauta, Lodi / Renaissance Quarterly	Beshulia, Spiridon Beshulia, Spiridon Erofeevich Besiki Beskid Niski Beskids Beskidy Beslan Besm Besnard, Paul Albert Besodeiah besom Besor Besov Nos Bespalyi, Ivan bespoke software Besposhchadnyi, Pavel Besposhchadnyi, Pavel Grigorevich Bess Bess o' Bedlam Bess of Hardwick Bessarabia Bessarabian Bessarabka Bessarabova, Natalia Bessarabova, Natalia Ivanovna Bessarion Bessarion of Nicaea Bessel Bessel ellipsoid of 1841 Bessel Equation Bessel function Bessel Functions Bessel Inequality Bessel spheroid of 1841 Bessel transform Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Besselian elements Besselian star numbers Besselian Year Bessemer Bessemer converter Bessemer iron Bessemer matte Bessemer ore Bessemer pig iron Bessemer Process Bessemer steel Bessemer, Henry Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemianka Bessenyei, György	Bespurt BESQ BESR BESRD BESRL BESRM Bess Bess Bess Bess BESS (experiment) BESS (experiment) BESS (experiment) Bess beetle Bess o' Bedlam Bess of Hardwick BESSA Bessarabia Bessarabia Bessarabia Governorate Bessarabia Governorate Bessarabian Bessarabian Bessarabians Bessarabians Bessarabiya Bessarabiya Bessarabka Bessarabova, Natalia Bessarabova, Natalia Ivanovna Bessarion Bessarion of Nicaea Bessat Sports d'Hiver Bessbug BESSC BESSD Besse Bolton Kids Club Besse Forest Products Group Bessel Bessel Bessel differential equation Bessel ellipsoid of 1841 Bessel equation Bessel function Bessel function of the first kind Bessel function of the second kind Bessel function of the third kind Bessel Functions Bessel inequality Bessel Product Combining Bessel spheroid of 1841 Bessel transform Bessel's differential equation Bessel's equation Bessel's function

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Examples include Bessarion B (Figure 7) and Segner C (Figure 8).

Cassini A: the nature of the 'Washbowl' described by Wilkins & Moore ... by Lena, Raffaello; Douglass, Eric; Bregante, Maria Teresa; Mengoli, Giorgio / Journal of the British Astronomical Association

9783515090612 Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas; from Regiomontanus' acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ.

Astrolabes and angels, epigrams and enigmas; from Regiomontanus' ... by Reference & Research Book News

Other famous contributions were George of Trebizond's Comparison of the Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato (1458) and, as a response to this, Against Plato's Calumniator (1469) by Cardinal Bessarion, who had been a student of Plethon in his youth.

Nicolaus Scutellius, O.S.A., as Pseudo-Pletho: The Sixteenth-Century ... by Nauta, Lodi / Renaissance Quarterly