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anthropology | ). they use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field, " which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork. " on the biological or physical side, human measurements, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology | 2 |
anthropology | toward an urban anthropology mentions that the " third world " had habitually received most of attention ; anthropologists who traditionally specialized in " other cultures " looked for them far away and started to look " across the tracks " only in late 1960s. now there exist many works focusing on peoples and topics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology | 0 |
alchemy | alchemy ( from arabic : al - kimiya ; from ancient greek : χυμεια, khumeia ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in china, india, the muslim world, and europe. in its western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigrap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 1 |
alchemy | understood as complementary. the former is pursued by historians of the physical sciences, who examine the subject in terms of early chemistry, medicine, and charlatanism, and the philosophical and religious contexts in which these events occurred. the latter interests historians of esotericism, psychologists, and some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | with the " red land ", the surrounding desert ). history alchemy encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents. these traditions'general penchant for cryptic and symbolic language makes it hard to trace their mutual influences and " genetic " relationships. one can disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | any of these authors. the most complete of their works, the four books of pseudo - democritus, were probably written in the first century ad. recent scholarship tends to emphasize the testimony of zosimus, who traced the alchemical arts back to egyptian metallurgical and ceremonial practices. it has also been argued th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | caduceus or serpent - staff, were among alchemy's principal symbols. according to clement of alexandria, he wrote what were called the " forty - two books of hermes ", covering all fields of knowledge. the hermetica of thrice - great hermes is generally understood to form the basis for western alchemical philosophy and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 3 |
alchemy | to which it would return if left undisturbed. the four elements of the greek were mostly qualitative aspects of matter, not quantitative, as our modern elements are ; "... true alchemy never regarded earth, air, water, and fire as corporeal or chemical substances in the present - day sense of the word. the four element... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 1 |
alchemy | ##lurgy has been exhibited in a third - century ad text called arthashastra which provides ingredients of explosives ( agniyoga ) and salts extracted from fertile soils and plant remains ( yavakshara ) such as saltpetre / nitre, perfume making ( different qualities of perfumes are mentioned ), granulated ( refined ) su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | into gold. scholarship on indian alchemy is in the publication of the alchemical body by david gordon white. a modern bibliography on indian alchemical studies has been written by white. the contents of 39 sanskrit alchemical treatises have been analysed in detail in g. jan meulenbeld's history of indian medical litera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | " ) introduced a new approach to alchemy. paul kraus, who wrote the standard reference work on jabir, put it as follows : islamic philosophers also made great contributions to alchemical hermeticism. the most influential author in this regard was arguably jabir. jabir's ultimate goal was takwin, the artificial creation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | in the work of jabir. from the 9th to 14th centuries, alchemical theories faced criticism from a variety of practical muslim chemists, including alkindus, abu al - rayhan al - biruni, avicenna and ibn khaldun. in particular, they wrote refutations against the idea of the transmutation of metals. from the 14th century o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | golden liquor, as texts containing fundamental alchemical information. he also described alchemy, along with meditation, as the sole spiritual practices that could allow one to gain immortality or to transcend. in his work inner chapters of the book of the master who embraces spontaneous nature ( 317 ad ), hong argued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##idan alchemists, as it was believed that one would become immortal if an inner god were to be immortalized within them through spiritual fulfillment. black powder may have been an important invention of chinese alchemists. it is said that the chinese invented gunpowder while trying to find a potion for eternal life. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | - century toledo, spain, through contributors like gerard of cremona and adelard of bath. translations of the time included the turba philosophorum, and the works of avicenna and muhammad ibn zakariya al - razi. these brought with them many new words to the european vocabulary for which there was no previous latin equi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | the transmutation of metals. from the time shortly after his death through to the 15th century, more than 28 alchemical tracts were misattributed to him, a common practice giving rise to his reputation as an accomplished alchemist. likewise, alchemical texts have been attributed to albert's student thomas aquinas. roge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 1 |
alchemy | . by the end of the 13th century, alchemy had developed into a fairly structured system of belief. adepts believed in the macrocosm - microcosm theories of hermes, that is to say, they believed that processes that affect minerals and other substances could have an effect on the human body ( for example, if one could le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | henry iv of england banned the practice of multiplying metals ( although it was possible to buy a licence to attempt to make gold alchemically, and a number were granted by henry vi and edward iv ). these critiques and regulations centered more around pseudo - alchemical charlatanism than the actual study of alchemy, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##chemy followed. in the late 15th century, marsilio ficino translated the corpus hermeticum and the works of plato into latin. these were previously unavailable to europeans who for the first time had a full picture of the alchemical theory that bacon had declared absent. renaissance humanism and renaissance neoplaton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | chemical remedies that could cure them. iatrochemistry refers to the pharmaceutical applications of alchemy championed by paracelsus. john dee ( 13 july 1527 – december, 1608 ) followed agrippa's occult tradition. although better known for angel summoning, divination, and his role as astrologer, cryptographer, and cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 1 |
alchemy | renaissance. betruger would use sleight of hand, or claims of secret knowledge to make money or secure patronage. legitimate mystical and medical alchemists such as michael maier and heinrich khunrath wrote about fraudulent transmutations, distinguishing themselves from the con artists. false alchemists were sometimes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 2 |
alchemy | 17th century, alchemy still flourished for some two hundred years, and in fact may have reached its peak in the 18th century. as late as 1781 james price claimed to have produced a powder that could transmute mercury into silver or gold. early modern european alchemy continued to exhibit a diversity of theories, practi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | an occult science. the esoteric or occultist school, which arose during the 19th century, held ( and continues to hold ) the view that the substances and operations mentioned in alchemical literature are to be interpreted in a spiritual sense, and it downplays the role of the alchemy as a practical tradition or protosc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | several women appear in the earliest history of alchemy. michael maier names four women who were able to make the philosophers'stone : mary the jewess, cleopatra the alchemist, medera, and taphnutia. zosimos'sister theosebia ( later known as euthica the arab ) and isis the prophetess also played roles in early alchemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##logy, she recorded all of her alchemical ventures in a manuscript named ('experiments'). the manuscript contained more than four hundred recipes covering alchemy as well as cosmetics and medicine. one of these recipes was for the water of talc. talc, which makes up talcum powder, is a mineral which, when combined wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##tua, made perfumes herself to serve as gifts. in this period, the only book of secrets ascribed to a woman was ('the secrets of signora isabella cortese'). this book contained information on how to turn base metals into gold, medicine, and cosmetics. however, it is rumored that a man, girolamo ruscelli, was the real ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | sub - department for the history of hermetic philosophy and related currents. a large collection of books on alchemy is kept in the bibliotheca philosophica hermetica in amsterdam. journals which publish regularly on the topic of alchemy include'ambix ', published by the society for the history of alchemy and chemistry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 1 |
alchemy | focusing on the esoteric, scholars, such as florin george calian and anna marie roos, who question the reading of principe and newman, interpret these same decknamen as spiritual, religious, or psychological concepts. new interpretations of alchemy are still perpetuated, sometimes merging in concepts from new age or ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##ting state, so the philosopher's stone then represented a mystic key that would make this evolution possible. applied to the alchemist, the twin goal symbolized their evolution from ignorance to enlightenment, and the stone represented a hidden spiritual truth or power that would lead to that goal. in texts that are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | coming into wholeness as a human being where opposites are brought into contact and inner and outer, spirit and matter are reunited in the hieros gamos, or divine marriage. his writings are influential in general psychology, but especially to those who have an interest in understanding the importance of dreams, symbols... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | 1941. see also alchemical symbol corentin louis kervran § biological transmutation cupellation historicism history of chemistry list of alchemists list of alchemical substances chemistry nuclear transmutation outline of alchemy porta alchemica renaissance magic spagyric superseded theories in science synthesis of preci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | belles lettres, 1981. otto lagercrantz ( ed ), papyrus graecus holmiensis, uppsala, a. b. akademiska bokhandeln, 1913, papyrus graecus holmiensis ( p. holm. ) ; recepte fur silber, steine und purpur, bearb. von otto lagercrantz. hrsg. mit unterstutzung des vilh. ekman'schen universitatsfonds. michele mertens and henri ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | ##cedimenti magico - alchemici e discorso filosofico ermetico " in giuliana lanata ( ed. ), il tardoantico alle soglie del duemila, ets, 2000, p. 73 – 98. alberto camplani and marco zambon, " il sacrificio come problema in alcune correnti filosofice di eta imperiale ", annali di storia dell'esegesi 19 ( 2002 ), p. 59 –... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | . volume ii : perspectives from east and west in late antiquity, cambridge university press, 2011, p. 59 – 69. andre - jean festugiere, la revelation d'hermes trismegiste, paris, les belles lettres, 2014,. kyle a. fraser, " zosimos of panopolis and the book of enoch : alchemy as forbidden knowledge ", aries 4. 2 ( 2004... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | roman egypt. barnes & noble, 1970. paul magdalino and maria mavroudi ( eds. ), the occult sciences in byzantium, la pomme d'or, 2006. matteo martelli, " the alchemical art of dyeing : the fourfold division of alchemy and the enochian tradition " in sven dupre ( ed. ), laboratories of art, springer, 2014,. matteo martel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
alchemy | alchemy tried in the fire : starkey, boyle, and the fate of helmontian chymistry. university of chicago press, 2002. external links shac : society for the history of alchemy and chemistry esswe : european society for the study of western esotericism association for the study of esotericism esotericism hermeticism natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | 0 |
astronomer | an astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of earth. they observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either observational ( by analyzing the data ) or theoretical astronomy. examples of topi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | 14 |
astronomer | , geology, and engineering, whose research interests are closely related to astronomy. the international astronomical union comprises almost 10, 145 members from 70 countries who are involved in astronomical research at the phd level and beyond. contrary to the classical image of an old astronomer peering through a tel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | 4 |
astronomer | make their own discoveries and assist professional astronomers in research. see also list of astronomers list of women astronomers list of muslim astronomers list of french astronomers list of hungarian astronomers list of russian astronomers and astrophysicists list of slovenian astronomers references sources external... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | 2 |
ascii | ascii ( ), abbreviated from american standard code for information interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ascii codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. because of technical limitations of computer systems at the time it was invented, ascii... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 1 |
ascii | a to z, and punctuation symbols. in addition, the original ascii specification included 33 non - printing control codes which originated with s ; most of these are now obsolete, although a few are still commonly used, such as the carriage return, line feed, and tab codes. for example, lowercase i would be represented i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | to ascii at its may 1963 meeting. locating the lowercase letters in sticks 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case - insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers. the x3 committee made other changes, including oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | character encodings, ascii specifies a correspondence between digital bit patterns and character symbols ( i. e. graphemes and control characters ). this allows digital devices to communicate with each other and to process, store, and communicate character - oriented information such as written language. before ascii w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | . eight - bit machines ( with octets as the native data type ) that did not use parity checking typically set the eighth bit to 0. internal organization the code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. the first two so - called ascii... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 2 |
ascii | letter o ) and l ( lowercase letter l ) instead, but 1! and 0 ) pairs became standard once 0 and 1 became common. thus, in ascii! " # $ % were placed in the second stick, positions 1 – 5, corresponding to the digits 1 – 5 in the adjacent stick. the parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | / ). the @ symbol was not used in continental europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented a in the french variation, so the @ was placed in position 40hex, right before the letter a. the control codes felt essential for data transmission were the start of message ( som ), end of address ( eoa ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | . refers to control characters that do not include carriage return, line feed or white space as non - whitespace control characters. except for the control characters that prescribe elementary line - oriented formatting, ascii does not define any mechanism for describing the structure or appearance of text within a doc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | the automatic paper tape reader received a control - s ( xoff, an abbreviation for transmit off ), it caused the tape reader to stop ; receiving control - q ( xon, transmit on ) caused the tape reader to resume. this so - called flow control technique became adopted by several early computer operating systems as a " ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | terminal driver could only use one character to erase the previous character ; this could be set to bs or del, but not both, resulting in recurring situations of ambiguity where users had to decide depending on what terminal they were using ( shells that allow line editing, such as ksh, bash, and zsh, understand both )... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | is the newline problem on various operating systems. teletype machines required that a line of text be terminated with both " carriage return " ( which moves the printhead to the beginning of the line ) and " line feed " ( which advances the paper one line without moving the printhead ). the name " carriage return " co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 1 |
ascii | line terminator. unix and unix - like systems, and amiga systems, adopted this convention from multics. on the other hand, the original macintosh os, apple dos, and prodos used carriage return ( cr ) alone as a line terminator ; however, since apple has now replaced these obsolete operating systems with the unix - base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 5 |
ascii | / m tracked file length only in units of disk blocks, and used control - z to mark the end of the actual text in the file. for these reasons, eof, or end - of - file, was used colloquially and conventionally as a three - letter acronym for control - z instead of substitute. the end - of - text character ( etx ), also k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 2 |
ascii | and is therefore omitted from this chart ; it is covered in the previous section's chart. earlier versions of ascii used the up arrow instead of the caret ( 5ehex ) and the left arrow instead of the underscore ( 5fhex ). usage ascii was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven - bit teleprinter code for american ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 1 |
ascii | of non - english languages that used roman - based alphabets. one could class some of these variations as " ascii extensions ", although some misuse that term to represent all variants, including those that do not preserve ascii's character - map in the 7 - bit range. furthermore, the ascii extensions have also been mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
ascii | . it does not make any additional codes available, so the same code points encoded different characters in different countries. escape codes were defined to indicate which national variant applied to a piece of text, but they were rarely used, so it was often impossible to know what variant to work with and, therefore,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 1 |
ascii | \ smith is shown as c : ¥users¥smith ( in japan ) or c : ₩users₩smith ( in korea ). in europe, teletext character sets, which are variants of ascii, are used for broadcast tv subtitles, defined by world system teletext and broadcast using the dvb - txt standard for embedding teletext into dvb transmissions. in the case... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 1 |
ascii | - bit computers and galaksija computers also used ascii variants. the ibm pc defined code page 437, which replaced the control characters with graphic symbols such as smiley faces, and mapped additional graphic characters to the upper 128 positions. operating systems such as dos supported these code pages, and manufact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 2 |
ascii | identification ( using natural numbers called code points ) and encoding ( to 8 -, 16 -, or 32 - bit binary formats, called utf - 8, utf - 16, and utf - 32, respectively ). ascii was incorporated into the unicode ( 1991 ) character set as the first 128 symbols, so the 7 - bit ascii characters have the same numeric code... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | 0 |
animation | animation is the method that encompasses myriad filmmaking techniques, by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. in traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets ( cels ) to be photographed and exhibited on film. animation has been recognized as an artis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 1 |
animation | other, with unnoticeable interruptions, is a stroboscopic effect. while animators traditionally used to draw each part of the movements and changes of figures on transparent cels that could be moved over a separate background, computer animation is usually based on programming paths between key frames to maneuver digit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 2 |
animation | principle of modern animation, which would also be applied in the zoetrope ( introduced in 1866 ), the flip book ( 1868 ), the praxinoscope ( 1877 ) and film. silent era when cinematography eventually broke through in the 1890s, the wonder of the realistic details in the new medium was seen as its biggest accomplishmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | and would have long - lasting careers, including walt disney productions'goofy ( 1932 ) and donald duck ( 1934 ), fleischer studios / paramount cartoon studios'out of the inkwell'koko the clown ( 1918 ), bimbo and betty boop ( 1930 ), popeye ( 1933 ) and casper ( 1945 ), warner bros. cartoons'looney tunes'porky pig ( 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | to town ( 1941 – 1942 ) and disney's feature films cinderella ( 1950 ), alice in wonderland ( 1951 ) and lady and the tramp ( 1955 ) failed at the box office. for decades afterward, disney would be the only american studio to regularly produce animated features, until ralph bakshi became the first to also release more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 1 |
animation | ##windled until more daring animation surfaced in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s with hit series, the first cartoon of the simpsons ( 1987 ), the animated television series such as the simpsons ( since 1989 ) and spongebob squarepants ( since 1999 ) as part of a " renaissance " of american animation. while us an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 1 |
animation | animation style was generated with computers, but also most of the films and series with a more traditional hand - crafted appearance, in which the charming characteristics of cel animation could be emulated with software, while new digital tools helped developing new styles and effects. economic status in 2010, the an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | are adapted into anime ), original animated characters also commonly appear in comic books and magazines. somewhat similarly, characters and plots for video games ( an interactive form of animation that became its own medium ) have been derived from films and vice versa. some of the original content produced for the sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | the emile awards in europe and the anima mundi awards in brazil. academy awards apart from academy awards for best animated short film ( since 1932 ) and best animated feature ( since 2002 ), animated movies have been nominated and rewarded in other categories, relatively often for best original song and best original ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | maintain a film's consistency from start to finish, even as films have grown longer and teams have grown larger. animators, like all artists, necessarily have individual styles, but must subordinate their individuality in a consistent way to whatever style is employed on a particular film. since the early 1980s, teams ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | one against a painted background by a rostrum camera onto motion picture film. the traditional cel animation process became obsolete by the beginning of the 21st century. today, animators'drawings and the backgrounds are either scanned into or drawn directly into a computer system. various software programs are used to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | the secret of nimh ( us, 1982 ), the iron giant ( us, 1999 ), and nocturna ( spain, 2007 ). fully animated films are often animated on " twos ", sometimes on " ones ", which means that 12 to 24 drawings are required for a single second of film. limited limited animation involves the use of less detailed or more stylize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | . walt disney and ub iwerks created a series of alice comedies ( 1923 – 1927 ), in which a live - action girl enters an animated world. other examples include allegro non troppo ( italy, 1976 ), who framed roger rabbit ( us, 1988 ), volere volare ( italy 1991 ), space jam ( us, 1996 ) and osmosis jones ( us, 2001 ). st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | animation ( below ), that can be manipulated to pose the figures. alternatively, the figures may be made entirely of clay, in the films of bruce bickford, where clay creatures morph into a variety of different shapes. examples of clay - animated works include the gumby show ( us, 1957 – 1967 ), mio mao ( italy, 1974 – ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 1 |
animation | and princes et princesses ( france, 2000 ). model animation stop - motion animation created to interact with and exist as a part of a live - action world. intercutting, matte effects and split screens are often employed to blend stop - motion characters or objects with live actors and settings. examples include the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 2 |
animation | neighbours by norman mclaren. computer computer animation encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally on a computer. 2d animation techniques tend to focus on image manipulation while 3d techniques usually build virtual worlds in which characters and objects mov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 2 |
animation | of 3d dynamics. terms cel - shaded animation is used to mimic traditional animation using computer software. the shading looks stark, with less blending of colors. examples include skyland ( 2007, france ), the iron giant ( 1999, united states ), futurama ( 1999, united states ) appleseed ex machina ( 2007, japan ), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 1 |
animation | noise ( generally a recorded speech or song ). they are fixed to whatever supports them. they can sit and stand, and they cannot walk. an audio - animatron is different from an android - type robot in that it uses prerecorded movements and sounds, rather than responding to external stimuli. in 2009, disney created an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
animation | object onto the screen. the screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows. the technique has been used to create animated films with a range of textural effects difficult to achieve with traditional cel animation. sand animation : sand is moved around on a back - or front - lighted piece of glass to create ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | 0 |
apollo | apollo or apollon is one of the olympian deities in classical greek and roman religion and greek and roman mythology. apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the sun and light, poetry, and more. one of the most important and complex of the greek gods, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | of children, and he presided over their passage into adulthood. long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age ( ) and dedicated to apollo. the god himself is depicted with long, uncut hair to symbolise his eternal youth. apollo is an important pastoral deity, and was the patron of herdsmen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the doric form, ( ), is more archaic, as it is derived from an earlier. it probably is a cognate to the doric month apellaios ( ), and the offerings ( ) at the initiation of the young men during the family - festival ( ). according to some scholars, the words are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | ##tite testimony reflects an early form, which may also be surmised from the comparison of cypriot with doric. the name of the lydian god qλdans / kʷʎðans / may reflect an earlier / kʷalyan - / before palatalization, syncope, and the pre - lydian sound change * y > d. note the labiovelar in place of the labial / p / fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | sol ( roman ) ( ), " sun " in latin wolf lycegenes ( ;, lukegenes ), literally " born of a wolf " or " born of lycia " lycoctonus ( ;, lykoktonos ), from, " wolf ", and, " to kill " origin and birth apollo's birthplace was mount cynthus on the island of delos. cynthius ( ;, kunthios ), literally " cynthian " cynthogene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | of sminthos or sminthe " near the troad town of hamaxitus napaian apollo ( απολλων ναπαιος ), from the city of nape at the island of lesbos eutresites, from the city of eutresis. healing and disease acesius ( ;, akesios ), from, " healing ". acesius was the epithet of apollo worshipped in elis, where he had a temple in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | ##mphegetes ( ;, numphegetes ), from, " nymph ", and, " leader ", for his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life patroos from, " related to one's father, " for his role as father of ion and founder of the ionians, as worshipped at the temple of apollo patroos in athens sauroctunos, " lizard killer ", possib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 1 |
apollo | ( ;, hekaergos ), literally " far - shooting " hecebolus ( ;, hekebolos ), " far - shooting " ismenius ( ;, ismenios ), literally " of ismenus ", after ismenus, the son of amphion and niobe, whom he struck with an arrow appearance acersecomes (, akersekomes ), " he who has unshorn hair ", the eternal ephebe. chrysocome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | maponus. a god known from inscriptions in britain. this may be a local fusion of apollo and maponus. apollo moritasgus ( " masses of sea water " ). an epithet for apollo at alesia, where he was worshipped as the god of healing and, possibly, of physicians. apollo vindonnus ( " clear light " ). apollo vindonnus had a te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 1 |
apollo | ##rting evil " ) and " alexikakos " ( " keeping off ill " ; from v. + n. ). apollo also had many epithets relating to his function as a healer. some commonly - used examples are " paion " ( literally " healer " or " helper " ) " epikourios " (, " succouring " ), " oulios " (, " healer, baleful " ) and " loimios " (, " ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 1 |
apollo | became the roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won. in the iliad, apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | ( diktynna ), the minoan " mistress of the animals ". in her earliest depictions she was accompanied by the " master of the animals ", a bow - wielding god of hunting whose name has been lost ; aspects of this figure may have been absorbed into the more popular apollo. anatolian origin a non - greek origin of apollo ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | of apollo were celebrated on the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a babylonian origin. the late bronze age ( from 1700 to 1200 bce ) hittite and hurrian aplu was a god of plague, invoked during plague years. here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | s cult was already fully established when written sources commenced, about 650 bce. apollo became extremely important to the greek world as an oracular deity in the archaic period, and the frequency of theophoric names such as apollodorus or apollonios and cities named apollonia testify to his popularity. oracular sanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | apollo, said to come from a spring inside the adyton. in didyma, an oracle on the coast of anatolia, south west of lydian ( luwian ) sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the branchidae received inspiration by drinking from a healing spring located in the temple. was believed to have been founded by branchus, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | be represented in several instances. the temples should be canonic, and the architects were trying to achieve this esthetic perfection. from the earliest times there were certain rules strictly observed in rectangular peripteral and prostyle buildings. the first buildings were built narrowly in order to hold the roof, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | ##rvilinear hecatombedon ( a hundred feet ). in a smaller building were kept the bases of the laurel branches which were used for the first building. another temple probably peripteral was built in the 7th century bc, with an inner row of wooden columns over its geometric predecessor. it was rebuilt peripteral around 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | 6th century bc. the temple's stylobate measures 21. 36 x 53. 30 m, and the number of pteron columns was 6 x 15. there was a double row of inner columns. the style is similar to the temple of alcmeonidae at delphi. the corinthians were considered to be the inventors of the doric order. napes ( lesbos ) : an aeolic templ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | temple at syracuse. delphi : the first temple dedicated to apollo, was built in the 7th century bc. according to the legend, it was wooden made of laurel branches. the " temple of alcmeonidae " was built in and it is the oldest doric temple with significant marble elements. the temple's stylobate measures 21. 65 x 58. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | was built in the late 7th century bc, with a plan measuring 10, 00 x 15, 60 m. the doric great temple of apollo, was built in. the temple's stylobate measures 13. 72 x 29. 78 m, and the number of pteron columns as 6 x 13. marble was extensively used. ambracia : a doric peripteral temple dedicated to apollo pythios soti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | god's ancient role as bringer of the disease ( plague ). recent excavations indicate that the hellenistic temple of apollo smintheus was constructed in 150 – 125 bc, but the symbol of the mouse god was used on coinage probably from the 4th century. the temple measures 40, 00 x 23, 00 m at the stylobate, and the number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | apollo soranus is attested by one inscription found near falerii. pompeii ( italy ) : the cult of apollo was widespread in the region of campania since the 6th century bc. the temple was built in 120 bc, but its beginnings lie in the 6th century bc. it was reconstructed after an earthquake in ad 63. it demonstrates a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 0 |
apollo | of zeus, the king of the gods, and leto, his previous wife or one of his mistresses. apollo often appears in the myths, plays and hymns either directly or indirectly through his oracles. as zeus'favorite son, he had direct access to the mind of zeus and was willing to reveal this knowledge to humans. a divinity beyond ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | 1 |
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