Furthermore, in his work On Floating Bodies, around 250 BCE, Archimedes developed the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes ' Principle.

* Floating, a type of dental work performed on horse teeth

Copley had also painted several large and heroic depictions of disasters at sea which Géricault may have known from prints: Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ), in which a black man is central to the action, and which, like The Raft of the Medusa, concentrated on the actors of the drama rather than the seascape ; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 ( 1791 ), which was an influence on both the style and subject matter of Géricault's work ; and Scene of a Shipwreck ( 1790s ), which has a strikingly similar composition.

Barth, not unlike a fair number of other authors, has revealed himself to be embarrassed by his early unpublished work -- in his case, most work before The Floating Opera.

Marsh is well known in the city for his longtime patronage of artistic endeavors including the " Cadillac Ranch ", Floating Mesa, " Amarillo Ramp " a work of well known land artist Robert Smithson, and a series of fake traffic signs throughout the city known collectively as the " Dynamite Museum ".

Among them are Measurement of the Circle, in which he worked out the value of pi ; The Method of Mechanical Theorems, on his work in mechanics ; The Sand Reckoner ; and On Floating Bodies.

* Floating point: under work.

From her work he made films about unrequited passion ( Floating Clouds 1955 ), unhappy families and stale marriages Repast 1951, Wife 1953, Lightning 1952 ) and one about the struggle against material hardship and social oppression ( Late Chrysanthemums 1945 ).

The fundamental principles of hydrostatics were given by Archimedes in his work On Floating Bodies, around 250 BC.

The study of fluid mechanics goes back at least to the days of ancient Greece, when Archimedes investigated fluid statics and buoyancy and formulated his famous law known now as the Archimedes ' principle, which was published in his work On Floating Bodies-generally considered to be the first major work on fluid mechanics.

Nevertheless, in 1942, Alessandro Blasetti produced his Quattro passi fra le nuvole ( Four Steps in the Clouds ), the story of a humble employee, considered by many others as the first neorealist work.

Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in Revenge ( 1990 ), Jungle Fever ( 1991 ), Last Action Hero ( 1993 ), A Walk in the Clouds ( 1995 ) and Seven Servants ( 1996 ).

After this movie, Michael Curtiz would work again with James Cagney in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Captains of the Clouds.

Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on March 10 1935 under the title of Death in the Air and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the July of the same year under Christie's original title.

This work later was extended to the Magellanic Clouds, adding a further 2, 000, 000 observations of variable stars.

Their 1990 production Little Fluffy Clouds features a sample from Steve Reich's work Electric Counterpoint ( 1987 ).

After splitting from The Orb, Cauty finished work on his own album Space, and Paterson's Orb went on to create the single " Little Fluffy Clouds " – both important works of ambient house.

Jungr has also worked with the Amici multi disciplinary dance troupe, directed and produced the work of other artists and collaborated with composer Jonathan Cooper on his " Moon Behind The Clouds " song cycle.

There is also a reference in Death in the Clouds ( 1935 ) by Agatha Christie: " Mr. Clancy, writer of detective stories ... extracted a Continental Bradshaw from his raincoat pocket ... to work out a complicated alibi.

Produced by Jack Casady, and featuring ( somewhat surprisingly ) string overdubs on some tracks, this album contained some of Kaukonen's most deft fingerpicking work, especially on " Hamar Promenade ", " Blue Prelude ", " Genesis " and " Flying Clouds ".

Grey Clouds ), S. 199 or Trübe Wolken, is a work for piano solo composed by Franz Liszt on August 24, 1881.

Wandering between the conceptual intrigue of works like Eight Clouds and the Minimalist assertions of works like Red Interior, Tillyer developed a range of means by which to deepen the external references of his work.

In his 1887 work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, Tönnies argued that Gemeinschaft is perceived to be a tighter and more cohesive social entity, due to the presence of a " unity of will.

There under Stumpf's supervision he wrote Über den Begriff der Zahl ( On the concept of Number ) in 1887, which would serve later as the base for his first important work, Philosophie der Arithmetik ( 1891 ).

Takamine continued to work for the department of agriculture and commerce until 1887.

After Krupp's death in 1887, his only son, Friedrich Alfred, carried on the work.

Radix sort dates back as far as 1887 to the work of Herman Hollerith on tabulating machines.

The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

Eventually, however, his interest in administrative work led him to the Minneapolis Athenaeum where he served as librarian in 1887, until it merged into the Minneapolis Public Library in 1888.

Marcel Duchamp ( 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968 ; ) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements.

In 1887 Bruckner sent the work to Hermann Levi, the conductor who had led his Seventh to great success.

* S. Ramanujan, ( 1887 – 1920 ), the famous Indian mathematician, known for his work on continued fractions, number theory, and his 1729 observation

A pantomime produced at the Funambules in 1828, The Gold Dream, or Harlequin and the Miser, was widely thought to be the work of Nodier, and both Gautier and Banville wrote Pierrot playlets that were eventually produced on other stages — Posthumous Pierrot ( 1847 ) and The Kiss ( 1887 ), respectively.

The second account was written by Anna Klumpke, an American painter from Boston who made Bonheur ’ s acquaintance in 1887 while serving as a translator for an American collector of her work and who later became the older artist ’ s companion in the last year of her life.

His last work was his autobiography, Livserindringer ( published 1887 ).

Those who believe that the Queen saw Brown as little more than a servant point to the fact that after his death she became similarly attached to an Indian servant, Abdul Karim ( the Munshi ), one of two who had come to work for her in late June 1887.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

Among his other works are editions of Eudoxus of Cnidus ( 1887 ), the Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία ( 4th ed., 1903 ), a work of great importance, and Bacchylides ( 3rd.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

In 1887, Jackson began work on the Gatehouse, the Hall and its spiral staircase, and the north range of the Old Quad.

Extant examples of its work include many of the borough's buildings erected between 1887 and the early 1950s.

In 1887, he moved to Capri and managed to purchase the Villa San Michele and begin restoring the buildings there, doing much of the work himself, but also employing local residents, including three brothers and their father.

He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca ( 1887 ) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.

She attended the school for three years until 1887, later detailing the experience in her work The School Days of an Indian Girl.

This list of the fallen included the celebrated war poet Rupert Brooke ( 1887 – 1915 ), whose work Magee greatly admired and who had also won the school poetry prize 34 years prior to Magee.