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A decorative panel which fills the inter-columniations of the proskenion or the thyromata (pl. of thyroma) at the back of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater.
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In fact, except for the vine of ivy at its top, it is quite similar to the walking stick carried by the male initiate at the far left in the pediment of the Ninnion pinax.
Como indica Jarvis (2007), el herbario de Joachin Burser esta organizado de acuerdo con la obra de su maestro Caspar Bauhin Pinax theatri botanici ..., y por lo tanto esta obra y el mencionado herbario estan vinculados.
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Especie tipo: "Senna alexandrina sive foliis acutis Caspar Bauhin Pinax 397"=Senna alexandrina Mill., 1768 (Irwin & Barneby, 1982a: 35).
In further support of this identification, the authors present a previously unpublished Archaic terracotta pinax, possibly inscribed with a dedication to Apollo.
(1666) Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicorum continens vegetabilia, animalia, et fossilia in hac Insula reperta inchoatus.
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Robert Lovell's Panmineralogicon, or an Universal History of Mineralls (1661), Christopher Merret's Pinax rerum Naturalium Britannicorum (1666), John Webster's Metallographia, or an History of Metals (1671), Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-shire (1677), and Natural History of Stafford-shire (1686), and Nehemiah Grew's 1681 description of the minerals and other specimens in the collection of the Royal Society (Musaeum Regalis Societatis) all stimulated interest by bringing minerals within reach of the English-speaking scholar and amateur.