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AQUINO, a town and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta; it is 56 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Caserta, and 7^ m. N.W. of Cassino. Pop. (1901) 2672. The modern town, dose to the ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the cath ...

AQUINAS, THOMAS [THOMAS OF AQUIN or AQUINO], (c 12271274), scholastic philosopher, known as Doctor Angelicas, Doctor Uniiiersalis, was of noble descent, and nearly allied to several of th? royal houses of Europe. He was born in 1225 or 1227, at Roccasecca, the ...

EQUINOX (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and nox, night), a term used to express either the moment at which, or the point at which, the sun apparently crosses the celestial equator. Since the sun moves in the ecliptic, it is in the last-named sense the point of i

AUBIN, a town o( southern France, in the department of run on ilu- 1 inic, 30 m. N.W. of Kodcz. In 1906 the urban (Hipulation was ing, the communal population 0086. Aubin is the centre of important coal-mines worked in the middle ages, and also has iron-mines,

... he phenols, whilst /C(OH) «H4< I (?) (anthranol) is a reduction product of anthraquinone. /3-anthrol and anthranol give the corresponding amino compounds (anthramines) when heated with ammonia. Numerous sulphonic acids of anthracene are known, a monosulphonic ...

ANTHRAQUINONE, CuHsOi, an important derivative of anthracene, first prepared in 1834 by A. Laurent. It is prepared commercially from anthracene by stirring a sludge of anthracene and water in horizontal cylinders with a mixture of sodium bichromate and caustic ...

... e, 1909) ; Der Wahrheitsgelia.lt der Religion (1901; 2nd ed., 1905); Thomas von Aquino und Kant (1901); Gesammelte Aufsdtze zu Philos. und Lebensanschauung (1903); Philosophie der Geschichte (1907); Der Kampf um einen geisiigen Lebenstnhalt (1896, 1907); Grund ...