Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

Pope Sylvester II and the Devil in an illustration of c. 1460. Gerbert was accused by his enemies of having studied magical arts and astrology at the Islamic cities of Córdoba and Seville and even at the University of Al Karaouine in Morocco.

A good illustration of this is Australian wheat growing in the southern winter cropping zone, where, despite low rainfall ( 300 mm ), wheat cropping is successful even with relatively little use of nitrogenous fertilizer.

A. Meissonnier, working in Paris ( illustration, below ), any reference to tectonic form is gone: even the marble slab top is shaped.

The path loss for the first ten kilometers may be 150 -- 190 dB ( Note: These values are very approximate and are given here only as an illustration of the range in which the numbers used to express the path loss values can eventually be, these are not definitive or binding figures -- the path loss may be very different for the same distance along two different paths and it can be different even along the same path if measured at different times.

It might be severely plain, as in the typical Cistercian architecture ( illustration left ), which encouraged no distraction from liturgy and ascetic contemplation, or in other contexts it could be treated to numerous fanciful variations, even on the capitals of a series of columns or colonettes within the same system.

Sidney Altman was later to look back on his parents ' lives as an illustration of the value of the work ethic: " It was from them I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

One accessory even allowed the camera to use a pair of binoculars as a telephoto lens ( see illustration ).

In the illustration to the left, the bars are so prominent that they appear to be on top of both design and cancellation, but of course this is impossible ; note especially the " 72 " in the lower right, where even the brief soaking that removed the stamp from the letter caused the ink of the design to start flaking off.

The Marquise de Pezé and the Marquise de Rouget with Her Two Children, Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun ( 1787 ) In Paris during the 1780s, light, unstructured bonnets were fashionable ( illustration, right ): Mme de Pezé's is of gauze with a border of gold threads, while Mme de Rouget is even more informally coiffed à la Turque, with a loose turban of striped silk.

Unlike more general anisotropic filtering, the RIP mapping described for illustration is limited by only supporting anisotropic probes that are axis-aligned in texture space, so diagonal anisotropy still presents a problem, even though real-use cases of anisotropic texture commonly have such screenspace mappings.

She even described a new species ( Nembrotha rutilans, Pruvot-Fol, 1931 ) on the basis of a painted illustration in a book by William Saville-Kent, ( 1893 ) entitled " The Great Barrier Reef of Australia ".

The following decisions will serve in illustration: Interest may not be exacted even from non-Jews, nor even such minor profits as the Talmud designates as " the dust of interest ", these being allowed only when customary in non-Jewish business circles (" Sha ' are Tzedek ," iv.

When the peach rolls off the tree, it rolls through a " famous chocolate factory ", a reference to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory ( the illustration even depicts the word " WONKA " on the side of the building ).

The novel was illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover, who carefully read the descriptive passages on the costumes and weapons of Barsoom and developed an overall concept for the artwork, even ensuring that John's Carter's pistol and belt in his cover illustration reflected their origins in Green Martian craftsmanship.

An illustration of it even appeared in Hergé's book " Tintin raconte l ' Histoire de l ' Automobile " ( Casterman, 1953 ).

Micro Machines also utilized several diverse features such as color-changing cars and " Private Eyes " vehicles that even allowed one to peek inside and view an illustration of the contents.

However, Livy's account remains, even if only as a parable, a powerful illustration that the middle course is not always the best.

Based on the following illustration, TTM interventions clearly have a more substantial impact than action oriented programs even when they share the same efficacy rates.

The original album contained a booklet containing lyrics to the songs ( even to the covers of " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds " and " Pinball Wizard "), plus an illustration for each song.

It is absolutely identical to the earlier illustration even though the circularly polarized light at the top is now considered to be approaching the polarizer from the left.

The clearest illustration of an attempt to deal with the campanile question in a church outside Rome is the sanctuary of Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi which in fact is not even clearly attributed to Bramante, although Bruschi does list references to Bramante in connection with it.

In this illustration he takes an oath before the consuls with his right hand on the town ordinances, while sitting on a pedestal.

Noteworthy in the area of newspaper cartoon illustration is Richard Thompson, who illustrated numerous feature articles in The Washington Post before creating his Cul de Sac comic strip.

File: Paradise Lost 19. jpg | Gustave Doré's illustration for Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer yielding before Gabriel

These five pictures mentioned are the only ones which feature fishing reels before the year 1651 ( when the first English illustration was made ); after that year they became commonly depicted in world art.

* A stylised illustration of a male Albert's Lyrebird was the logo of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, before the Conservatorium became part of Griffith University.

When Gustave Courbet drew a crayon illustration for The Black Arm ( 1856 ), a pantomime by Fernand Desnoyers written for another mime, Paul Legrand ( see next section ), the Pierrot who quakes with fear as a black arm snakes up from the ground before him is clearly a child of the Pierrot in The Ol ’ Clo's Man.

* c. 1285 BC — Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris, illustration from a Book of the Dead is painted.

Gná is flanked by the horse Hófvarpnir, while standing before the enthroned Frigg in an illustration ( 1882 ) by Carl Emil Doepler

* Historia Anglorum 1250-9 British Library MS Royal 14. C. VII, 358 x 250 mm, ff 232, also the last volume of the Chronica Majora, and various other items, including maps of the Holy Land and the British Isles, an itinerary from London to Apulia, a full-page Virgin and Child with Matthew Paris kneeling before them ( illustration above, his most monumental work ), and a genealogy of the Kings of England with seated portraits.

George Johann Scharf's illustration of the market before Fowler's hall was built in 1830

A good illustration of these two features is a 1956 drawing from the Swedish nuclear weapon program ( which was terminated before it produced a test explosion ).

The title page of the 1560 edition of the Geneva Bible ; the illustration depicts the Israelites before the Red Sea.

An illustration of King's Cross from 1852, shortly before its use by the Midland Railway

The position of the sprung ' hopper ' or ' jack ' centred in the key of Crisofori's action ( see illustration below ) is so adjusted that the hopper escapes from the ' notch ' in the middle of the intermediate lever just before the hammer strikes the string, so that the hammer is not driven all the way but travels the remaining distance under its own momentum and then falls into the check.

The programmes also pioneered a style of presentation whereby David Attenborough would begin describing a certain species ' behaviour in one location, before cutting to another to complete his illustration.

) However, an actual illustration of a grue had been seen previously, although in an obscure source — one of Steve Meretzky's Zork gamebooks purposely included a section where the protagonists see a grue face-to-face before being eaten by it, presumably as a way to make the book attractive to Zork fans.

A second historical tragedy, A faithful Servant of his Lord (, 1826, performed 1828 ), attempted to embody a more heroic gospel ; but the subject of the superhuman self-effacement of Bankbanus before Duke Otto of Meran proved too uncompromising an illustration of Kant's categorical imperative of duty to be palatable in the theatre.

Chaykin made wide use of Craftint Duoshade illustration boards for American Flagg !, which in the period before computers, enabled him to add shaded textures to the finished art.

Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and / or mood for use in films, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.

A charge of wholesale plagiarism from this book was brought against Paley in the Athenaeum for 1848, but the famous illustration of the watch was not peculiar to Nieuwentyt, and had been appropriated by many others before Paley.

* Manual or powered tampers compact gravel before laying a concrete or brick patio or walkway so that the underlying gravel layer does not settle over time, or compress the fill in a utility trench as seen in the illustration.

Interior illustration by Alexander Leydenfrost for Bradbury's " The Million Year Picnic " Bradbury's work for Planet included two of the stories that he later incorporated into The Martian Chronicles, including " The Million Year Picnic "; only one other story in the series had appeared before this.

For American Flagg !, Chaykin made wide use of Craftint Duoshade illustration boards, which in the period before computers, allowed him to add a shaded texture to the finished art.

He took the two year Intermediate Examination in six months before specialising in illustration and lithography.