Additional Data to the Biography of Stephen Parmenius
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
IN Peter C. Mancall’s well-researched book, Hakluyt’s Promise published in 2007 there is a long passage about Stephen Parmenius of Buda who was a friend of Hakluyt.1 Mancall’s information on Parmenius is taken from David B. Quinn and Neil M. Cheshire’s excellent The New Found Land of Parmenius published in 1972 in Toronto. However, since the publication of Quinn and Cheshire’s book, new data has come to light, which corrects certain biographical details on Parmenius. It is known that in 1581–82 the Hungarian scholar/poet Stephen Parmenius shared quarters with Richard Hakluyt jr. in Christ Church, Oxford. I found a letter written by another member of Christ Church, the French scholar Jean Hotman, to the historian William Camden in which he mentions Parmenius. Jean Hotman was the son of the famous Protestant theologian Francois Hotman and was roughly the same age as Stephen Parmenius. He was incorporated at Oxford in March 1581 and as a member of Christ Church he also befriended the Hungarian scholar. Hotman’s undated Latin letter of recommendation to the historian William Camden of Westminster College, London2 is numbered ‘Epistola XIX’ in the collection Francisci et Joannis Hotomanorum … istolae (Amsterdam, 1700) where he says the following: It is your unparalleled friendliness towards foreigners that made me commend this (person): you already know him from the Paean. My commendation to you is a real one, for I know him well in all respects. A Hungarian by nationality, born at Buda under Turkish rule, because of his religion and piety he has been attending German and English academies for many years now. He has spent a few months here and because of his scholarship, as well as his conduct, our people in Oxford accepted him, with the highest praise. He deserves your goodwill and friendship; neither do I doubt that because of me and others you will expand your efforts for him most generously. With this you shall be doing a favour to both of us—especially to me.3
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it