Handscroll, 35. 0 x 49. 5 cm.

The two cultural groups ( called " phyles ") explored in most detail are the two that flourish in New Atlantis and among certain citizens of the fragmented lands that once constituted mainland China.

Used for establishing the Summer and Winter Solstices, this astronomical instrument is described in detail by Joseph Needham in his seminal work Science and Civilisation in China.

This approach to finish line procedures is well attested to in very fine detail on a silk scroll painting made during the eleventh century China during the Song Dyanasty.

Gilbert was one of the leading advocates for a north-west passage to the land of Cathay ( present-day China ), noted in great detail for its abundance of riches by Marco Polo in the 13th century.

Sogdians donors to the Buddha ( fresco, with detail ), Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, eastern Tarim Basin, China, 8th century.

Hergé names a specific Native American tribe, the Blackfeet, but here his penchant for fine detail noted in his portrayal of 1930s Arabia, India, and China is not so evident: The Blackfoot reservation is actually in northern Montana near the Canadian border, the giant Saguaro cactus is actually found in the Sonora desert of southern Arizona, and the railroad locomotives ( portrayed with the dangling couplers and massive double bumpers ) are actually those of period European equipment.

It featured an updated map with greater detail and added provinces in Japan, Korea, and China.

It made reference to a small scale map with very little detail, one that primarily showed lines separating China from " Inner Tibet " and " Inner Tibet " from " Outer Tibet.

Conder's work still adheres to the four-way classification, but in his eye for detail he puts together much historical work to create something resembling our modern Western image: he includes Druze, Yezidis, Mandeans, and Elamites under a list of possibly monotheistic groups, and under the final category, of " polytheism and pantheism ", he lists Zoroastrianism, " Vedas, Puranas, Tantras, Reformed sects " of India as well as " Brahminical idolatry ", Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Lamaism, " religion of China and Japan ", and " illiterate superstitions ".

In his book God Is My Co-Pilot, Colonel Robert Lee Scott, Jr., USAAF, commander of the 23d Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, described in detail an aerial raid he led on the Japanese shipping anchored in Hong Kong harbour, conducted 25 October 1942, and the lone attack he personally made in his Curtiss P-40K Warhawk ( nicknamed Old Exterminator ) upon the famous Peninsula Hotel:

The articles Religion in China, Religion in Vietnam, Religion in Japan, Religion in Korea, Vinegar tasters, Sinosphere, Neo-Confucianism, East Asian Buddhism, and Buddhism and Eastern religions discuss this phenomenon in greater detail.

Sogdiana | Sogdian donors to the Buddha ( fresco, with detail ), Bezeklik, eastern Tarim Basin, China, 8th century

The state media in mainland China covered the visit in great detail and much of the general public welcomed this delegation with enthusiasm.

Muslim authors describe in detail the trade route from Western Asia to China across Zhetysu, mentioning many cities.

Gwynne Dyer praised the book for documenting " Mao's crimes and failures in unrelenting, unprecedented detail " and stated he believed it would eventually have a similar impact in China as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago did in the Soviet Union.

China War and the Third Temple ( 2001 ) depicts Baxter ’ s view of how events will play out in the near future, and Dark Intentions ( 2004 ) is a story of how the Antichrist, as a young boy, foresaw world events in detail and used the knowledge to his advantage.

" Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, after The World's premiere at the New York Film Festival, that the film was a " quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail " but perhaps had an overly " cavalier attitude to narrative momentum.

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

File: Cristo e la cananea di Alessandro Allori detail. jpg | Christ and Canaanite woman by Alessandro Allori.

Saint Benedict of Nursia ( c. 480 – 543 ), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, Saint Mark's Basilica | San Marco, Florence ( c. 1400 – 1455 ).

File: Eastern riveted hood detail. JPG | Close up detail of Mughal riveted mail hood kulah zirah.

File: The Martyrdom of St Sebastian ( detail ). jpg | Stirrup

File: Altarpiece of St Sebastian ( detail ). jpg | Cranequin ( Rack & Pinion )

Image: PBrueghelElderIcarus. jpg | Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ( detail ) by Peter Brueghel the Elder, ca.

File: Helene Paris David. jpg | Paris and Helen ( 1788 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris ( detail )

File: Edvard Munch, Lady from the sea. jpg | Lady From the Sea ( detail ).

File: Galatian head Thrace detail. jpg | A Galatian's head as depicted on a gold Thracian objet d ' art, 3rd century BC.

Doorway detail of a Dilwara Temples | Dilwara Temple.

Principal language families of the world ( and in some cases geographic groups of families ). For greater detail, see: Template: Distribution of languages in the world | Distribution of languages in the world.

File: Bellinzona Fernmeldedirektion detail. jpg | Swisscom telecommunication headquarters in Bellinzona

Drawing of a Purkinje cell in the cerebellum Cerebellar cortex | cortex done by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, demonstrating the ability of Golgi's staining method to reveal fine detail

Poseidon on an Attic Krater | kalyx krater ( detail ), first half of the 5th century BC.

Cover of the first Punch, or the London Charivari depicts Punch hanging a caricatured Devil, 1841 ( see Punch ( magazine )# Gallery of selected early covers | gallery below for enlarged detail )

Dante Alighieri, detail from a Luca Signorelli fresco in the chapel of Orvieto Cathedral # Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio | San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.

Sword of Goujian | The Bronze sword of King Goujian of Yue ( reigned 496 BCE-465 BCE ), with bird script ; detail — part of inscription: " 越王自作 " Yuè Wáng zì zuò, “ Made by the King of Yuè ”.

File: Virgin and child with four saints -- detail -- cortona 1435. jpg | Madonna by Sassetta, Cortona, Tempera on wood, 1435

The theme is similar to the classic Music Lesson genre, and features a bass viol, virginal, and cittern ( in the woman's hand, out of frame in this detail ; see: Image: VerkoljeJan CoupleDutch1674. jpg | full image ).

Historically a GNOME Easter egg ( media ) | easter egg, the elusive GEGL ( a five-legged goat ) was captured here in this 2002 screenshot ( detail ).

The famous 14th century Chinese text of the Huolongjing, which was the first to describe hollow cast iron cannonball shells filled with gunpowder, was also the first to describe the invention of the land mine in greater detail than references found in texts written beforehand.

: To see naming conventions in detail, please refer to Chinese sovereign

The Chinese workmanship and attention to detail impressed many.

The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail.

Although no Chinese sources detail the event, Portuguese sources tell of how the Portuguese were summoned on the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month to ceremoniously prostrate themselves before a wall of the Forbidden City to seek another audience with the emperor.

He became famous for his seventeen year overland journey to India, which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which in turn provided the inspiration for the classical novel Journey to the West, written by Wu Cheng ' en during the Ming Dynasty, around nine centuries after Xuanzang's death.

* 1027, 1107 AD: Documented Chinese reproductions of the South Pointing Chariot by Yan Su and then Wu Deren, which described in detail the mechanical functions and gear ratios of the device much more so than earlier Chinese records.

Again, this type of construction for Chinese ship hulls was attested to by the Moroccan Muslim Berber traveler Ibn Batutta ( 1304-1377 AD ), who described it in great detail ( refer to Technology of the Song Dynasty ).

The species is sometimes nicknamed sibuxiang ( Chinese: 四不像, pinyin: sì bú xiàng ), literally meaning " four not alike ", which could mean " the four unlikes " or " like none of the four "; it is variously said that the four are cow, deer, donkey, horse ( or ) camel, and that the expression means in detail:

James Dyer Ball in his book Things Chinese has a detail description about the process and material used for making firecracker at the end of 19th century.

A new manufacturer has arrived on the scene ( November 2011 ) with Australia-N Railways using both Australian locally manufactured detail accessories and top end Chinese factories to produce their new locomotives and rolling stock.

The Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja Sūtra () on which the Medicine Buddha is associated with and described in great detail is a common sutra to recite in Chinese temples as well.

He believed that the excess of intricate detail that is characteristic of Chinese art, or the dazzling metrical patterns characteristic of Islamic art, were typical examples of the sublime and argued that the disembodiment and formlessness of these art forms inspired the viewer with an overwhelming aesthetic sense of awe.

This article first describes the Chinese jianpu in some detail, then describes its possible variations.

* Chinese Chippendale ( architecture ), an architectural detail derived from Thomas Chippendale's Chinese-influenced work

This Chinese shadow puppet is illustrative of the ornate detail that goes into the figures.

The most famous Chinese alchemical book, the Tan Chin Yao Ch ’ eh (" Great Secrets of Alchemy ," dating from approximately 650 AD ), discusses in detail the creation of elixirs for immortality ( mercury, sulfur, and the salts of mercury and arsenic are prominent, and most are ironically poisonous ) as well as those for curing certain diseases and the fabrication of precious stones.

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, do not have relative pronouns at all, and form relative clauses ( or their equivalents ) by different methods – these are described in detail in the article on relative clauses.

As in all Chinese arts and crafts, motifs and symbols play an important part in decorative detail.

Doctrine can be accessed to describe these methods in greater detail ; the majority of Chinese alchemical sources can be found in the Taozang, the " Taoist Canon ".

In 1976 a book about Lee style T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan written by Chee Soo was published entitled " The Chinese Art of T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan " which describes the history and philosophy of the style in detail including descriptions of each aspect of the Art with photographs and descriptions of the Lee style T ' ai Chi form.