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18-911: The text survives in three manuscripts. The latter two date from the late eighth-early ninth centuries, and both also contain the grammar of Tatwine, though Vivien Law notes that the two did not share a transmission history and came to the two codices by different ways--Tatwine's likely from England to the court of Charlemagne , and Boniface's from the areas in Germany where Anglo-Saxon missionaries were active. The basic framework of Boniface's grammar derives from Aelius Donatus 's Ars Maior , though his examples are drawn from elsewhere. It shares four sources with Tatwine's: Donatus, Priscian , Isidore, and Asporius . In addition, Boniface used Charisius , Phocas, Audax , Diomedes Grammaticus , Sergius (pseudo-Cassiodorus), Virgilius Maro Grammaticus , and Aldhelm to provide him with theory and examples. Boniface's Latin

36-573: A private all-girls school in Montreal , Quebec. From 1971 to 1974, Law studied at McGill University . She graduated with a double honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in classics and German. In 1974, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in England. She then matriculated into Girton College, Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research under

54-547: A hundred languages". She spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge . Law was born on 22 March 1954 in Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents, John Ernest Law and Anne Elizabeth Law, were both English, and they had moved to Canada for his job with a telecommunications company. She was educated at Lemoyne d'Iberville High School, a state school in Longueuil , Quebec, and at Trafalgar School for Girls ,

72-558: A large collection of clarinets and related instruments. His Cambridge home became a place of pilgrimage for many players and scholars. Shackleton was internationally known as an organologist, reflected in his many journal articles, as well as his contributions to the 1980 and 2001 editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , as well as the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Most of Shackleton's substantial instrument collection, numbering over 700 instruments,

90-478: A set of postage stamps, in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society . Shackleton was chosen to represent Earth Science . The European Association of Geochemistry quinquennially awards a Science Innovation Award medal named in his honour for work in climatology. Shackleton was also a skilled amateur clarinet player, and collector of woodwind instruments. During his lifetime he amassed

108-491: The history of linguistics ". Nicholas John Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton . Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks to

126-512: The supervision of Michael Lapidge . She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1979. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Ars Bonifacii : a critical edition with introduction, and commentary on the sources". Law spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge . She was a lecturer in the history of linguistics from 1984 to 1998, and Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought from 1998 to her death in 2002. She

144-533: The Earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago. He became internationally known, in 1976, with the publication of a paper, with James Hays and John Imbrie, in Science entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages". Using ocean sediment cores, Shackleton, Hays and Imbrie demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in

162-472: The Latin grammatical system. In general, Boniface's Latin was heavily influenced by Aldhelm; in 1931, Paul Lehmann even identified the grammar as having been written by Aldhelm. Vivien Law Vivien Anne Law, Lady Shackleton , FBA (22 March 1954 – 19 February 2002) was a British linguist and academic, who specialised in grammar . Over her lifetime, she "acquired a grammatical knowledge of over

180-549: The close interdependency between carbon dioxide levels and temperature change over the last 400,000 years. In 1995 Shackleton became Director of the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. In 1998 he was knighted for his services to earth sciences. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). In 2010 Nick Shackleton was one of ten scientists depicted on

198-616: The generosity of a person he called his "fairy godmother" as she paid his school fees) Shackleton went on to read natural sciences at Clare College, Cambridge . He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961, promoted in 1964 to Master of Arts . In 1967 Cambridge awarded him a PhD degree, for a thesis entitled "The Measurement of Paleotemperatures in the Quaternary Era". Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career

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216-496: The orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun (see Milankovitch cycles ). Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise timescales based on matching the periodic cycles in deep-sea sediment cores to calculations of incoming sunlight at particular latitudes over geological time. This method allows a far greater level of stratigraphic precision than other dating methods, and has also helped to clarify

234-475: The rates and mechanisms of aspects of climate change. In September 2000 Shackleton published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica (glacial effect). This helped to identify the relative contribution of deep water temperature changes and ice volume changes to the marine isotopic record, and also highlighted

252-484: Was also a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge from 1978 to 1980, a senior research fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1984, teaching fellow at Sidney Sussex College from 1984 to 1997, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2002. In 1986, Law married Nicholas John Shackleton , a noted geologist and paleoclimatologist. They did not have any children. Upon his knighthood in 1998, she became Lady Shackleton. In 1999, Law

270-740: Was bequeathed to the University of Edinburgh together with an endowment. Part of the collection is now exhibited at the Reid Concert Hall, as part of Edinburgh University's Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. The collection has been described in a published catalogue [1] . In addition to his reputation in the scientific world, Shackleton was highly respected by many musicians, and a friend to many who studied at Cambridge, including Christopher Hogwood who lodged with him for several years. The fine copies, by Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham, of many clarinets in Shackleton's collection, had

288-483: Was church Latin; it was used specifically to read scripture and liturgy, as well as commentary on scripture. However, in contrast with earlier grammars from the fourth and fifth centuries, his grammar is written for an audience that learned Latin as a foreign language. The Christian backdrop for such language learning also meant that Boniface and other grammarians at the time had to incorporate non-Latin terms and names (specifically, some Greek terminology and Hebrew names) in

306-691: Was diagnosed with cancer. Treatment resulted in temporary remission . She died at her home in Cambridge on 20 February 2002, aged 47. In 1999, Law was elected a Fellow of the British Academy , the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. The Vivien Law Prize was established in her memory in 2004 by the Henry Sweet Society and is awarded for "the best essay submitted on any topic within

324-594: Was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the Department of Earth Sciences , working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research . Shackleton was a key figure in the field of paleoceanography , publishing over two hundred scientific papers. He was a pioneer in the use of mass spectrometry to determine changes in climate as recorded in the oxygen isotope composition of calcareous microfossils. Shackleton also found evidence that

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