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ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL (1766-1828), the founder of German bibliography, was born at Grossglogau, in Silesia, on the 23rd of June 1766. In 1785 he entered the university of Halle with the view of studying theology; but soon his whole attention became engrossed by ...

EPARCH, an official, a governor of a province of Roman Greece, «rapx°s> whose title was equivalent to, or represented that of the Roman praefectus. The area of his administration was called an eparchy (errapxta). The term survives as one of the administrative

ERBACH, a town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of HesseDarmstadt, on the Mumling, 22m. S.E. of Darmstadt. It has cloth mills and ivory-turning, for which last branch it possesses a technical school. Wool and cattle fairs are held twice a year. Pop. 2800. The ca

... is a tumid and a tedious author. EDITIONS. — Migne, Pair. Lot. iv. 340; A. Reifferscheich in the Vienna Corpus Script. Eccles. Lot. (1875). TRANSLATIONS. — A. H. Bryce and H. Campbell in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vi. LITERATURE. — H. C. G. Motile in Diet. Chr. Biog ...

... enii. He was led to his three great laws by musical analogies, just as William Herschel afterwards passed from music to astronomy. Kepler, who in his youth made almanacs, and once prophesied a hard winter, which came to pass, could not help pulling an astrolog ...

... in the ensuing century, some of its capabilities, which the labours of William Herschel enormously enhanced. Between 1774 and 1780 he built scores of specula of continually augmented size, up to a diameter of 4 ft., the optical excellence of which approved its ...

... ools. These are divided into Volksschulen (national or primary schools) and Burgerschulen (higher elementary schools). Attendance is obligatory on all from the age of six to fourteen (in some provinces six to twelve). Religious instruction is given by the pari ...

... y, dominated on the east by the Pfaffenstein (6140 ft.), on the west by the Kaiserschild (6830 ft.), and on the south by the Erzberg (5030 ft.). It has an interesting example of a medieval fortified church, a Gothic edifice founded by Rudolph of Habsburg in th ...

... e same direction. The matter was investigated by Charles Babbage, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Peter Barlow and others, but did not receive a final explanation until after the discovery of electromagnetic induction by Faradayin 1831. Ampere's investigations had led ...

... ) ; T. H. Martin in Academic des inscriptions, 3rd of October, 1879; article in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopddie.

... nns Mitteil. (1903), pi. I ; A. Supan, " Die jahreszeitliche Verteilung der Niederschlage in Europa," &c., ibid. (1890), pi. 21, and pp. 296-297 ; P. Elfert, " Die Bewolkung in Mitteleuropa mit Einschluss der Karpatenlander," ibid. (1890), pi. II and pp. 137-1 ...

... renders it highly suitable for office use; it was invented in 1840 by Sir John Herschel. This method has the disadvantage that the copies are blue in colour, and, as it is a negative process, the black lines of the original become the white lines of the print; ...

... her languages are Fr. croisee, nef transvers&e; Ital. crociala; Ger. Querbau, Querschiff), in architecture, the term given to the large and lofty structure which lies at right angles to the nave and aisles of a church. The first example is that which existed i ...

... e upas tree has become famous from the mendacious account (professedly by one Foersch, who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, and popularized by Erasmus Darwin in " Loves of the Plants " (Botanic Garden, pt. ii. ...

... ubject. The Royal Commission, originally numbering fifteen members,1 with Lord Herschell as president, was appointed in May 1889, the 1 The original Commissioners were — Lord Herschell, C. Bradlaugh, Dr Bristowe, Dr Collins, Sir C. Dalrymple, J. S. Dugdale, Q. ...