Other astrologers prefer not to attempt to explain astrology, and instead give it supernatural explanations such as divination.

Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements about the precise nature of Christ ( see Christology ) in the developing dogma of the Trinity, an attempt to explain the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth, both as man and God, and God the Father while confidently claiming to be uncompromisingly monotheistic.

Theories that attempt to explain ancient urbanism by a single factor, such as economic benefit, fail to capture the range of variation documented by archaeologists.

The Copenhagen interpretation is an attempt to explain the mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics and the corresponding experimental results.

Alternatively, Latin C-represents an attempt to render the unfamiliar Proto-Germanic h =, perhaps due to Celtic-speaking interpreters ( a Celtic intermediary would also explain why Germanic * Þeuðanōz became Latin Teutones ).

Modern historians have put forward numerous theories in an attempt to explain these actions.

All creation myths are in one sense etiological because they attempt to explain how the world was formed and where humanity came from.

The existing terms and structures available to them were often insufficient to express these new set of religious concepts, and taken together, these new forms of discourse led to the beginnings of Christology as an attempt to understand, explain and discuss their understanding of the nature of Christ.

The work's subtitle was " An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation ", and this explains Lyell's impact on science.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development ; among the most prominent are: Jean Piaget's Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky's Social constructivism ( and its heirs, the Cultural Theory of Development of Michael Cole, and the Ecological Systems Theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner ), Albert Bandura's Social learning theory, and the information processing framework employed by cognitive psychology.

In contrast to his father's rabid pietism, Munch adopted an undogmatic stance toward art, writing in his diary his simple goal: " in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.

Munch admitted to the personal goals of his work but he also offered his art to a wider purpose, " My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life — it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.

The numerous theories that attempt to explain the origin, neurobiology, experience, and function of emotions have only fostered more intense research on this topic.

The story may simply reflect an attempt to explain the ancient practice of ultimogeniture, whereby the last-born exercised superior rights of inheritance, a practice later replaced by primogeniture.

After Montag starts to rip a few pages from the beginning of a rare copy of The New Testament ( one of the few left that actually contains God's word, rather than the bastardized versions that have Jesus and other Biblical characters shilling products ), Faber relents and teaches Montag about the importance of literature in its attempt to explain human existence.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

" To answer, we might attempt to explain the shape of the Milky Way galaxy using the laws of physics.

" Thus irreal works such as Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and Jorge Luis Borges ' Ficciones can be seen as an attempt to find a new allegorical language to explain our changed perceptions of the world that have been brought about by our scientific and technical culture, especially concepts such as quantum physics or the theory of relativity.

There are many different theories which attempt to explain what love is, and what function it serves.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

Out of this collision of ideals derived from Romanticism, and an attempt to find a way for knowledge to explain that which was as yet unknown, came the first wave of works, which, while their authors considered them extensions of existing trends in art, broke the implicit contract with the general public that artists were the interpreters and representatives of bourgeois culture and ideas.

For example, E. B. Tylor interpreted myth as an attempt at a literal explanation for natural phenomena: unable to conceive of impersonal natural laws, early man tried to explain natural phenomena by attributing souls to inanimate objects, giving rise to animism.

The almost-free electron model was eagerly taken up by some researchers in this field, notably Hume-Rothery in an attempt to explain why certain intermetallic alloys with certain compositions would form and others would not.

'" They attempt to express everything that they want to explain without using universals such as " catness " or " chairness.

Apart from the peculiarities of his own spelling -- which represents nearly the first attempt to adapt the orthography of the old literary language common to Scotland and Ireland to the vernacular of the Highlands -- he uses forms which are not now employed in modern speech, and which have been consequently removed by all his editors from MacPherson onwards, presumably as a concession to readers unwilling to acquaint themselves with obsolete forms of the language.

* 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails.

* 1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

On June 1, 2012, Romanian organization ARCA announced that they are constructing an expendable rocket, named Haas 2C that will attempt to reach orbit in one stage.

Some authorities attempt to define an astronomical winter, often offset, which is based solely on the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun.

two space stations are in orbit ; the International Space Station, and China's Tiangong 1, ( which successfully launched on September 29, 2011, after failing in its prior August launch attempt ) Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series, Skylab and most recently Mir.

In the Star Trek Voyager episode " Blink of an Eye ", during which Voyager is trapped in orbit above a planet experiencing a rapid passage of time, the first attempt shown by the people to contact Voyager was made during the planet's medieval period by a Lord Protector.

The U. S. Navy's attempt to put the first U. S. satellite into orbit failed with the launch of the Vanguard TV3 on December 6, 1957.

Komarov did not have enough time to attempt a manual re-entry until orbit 19.

The first Soviet attempt at a flyby probe to Venus was launched on 4 February 1961, but failed to leave Earth orbit.

Vanguard TV3 was the first attempt of the United States to launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth.

The immobility of the earth, and the revolution of the sky about a fixed axis are maintained ; the path of the sun in the zodiac is described ; but the planets are introduced merely as bodies having a motion of their own, without any attempt to define their periods ; nor is anything said about the moon's orbit.

** Lunar orbit attempt

** Lunar Sample Return attempt ( failed to escape orbit and decayed back into the atmosphere after four days )

** Lunar Sample Return attempt ( failed to escape orbit and decayed back into the atmosphere after two days )

In the 1890s, Irish astronomer George Johnstone Stoney ( 1826 – 1911 ) and British astronomer Arthur Matthew Weld Downing ( 1850 – 1917 ), were the first to attempt to calculate the position of the dust at Earth's orbit.

In August 2012, the Russian Federal Space Agency lost both a Russian and Indonesian communications satellite in an attempt to bring them in orbit using a Proton-M rocket.

The Smithsonian has also been promised the International Cometary Explorer, which is currently in a solar orbit that occasionally brings it back to Earth, should NASA attempt to recover it.

To mitigate the impact of these events, once the Shuttle reached orbit it was deliberately flown tail first in an attempt to intercept as much of the debris load as possible on the engines and rear cargo bay.

Parallels have also been drawn with other biblical texts: Sinuhe's frustrated flight from the orbit of god's power (= King ) is likened to the Hebrew prophet Jonah's similar attempt, his fight with a mighty challenger, whom he slays with a single blow, is compared to the battle between David and Goliath and his return home likened to the parable of the Prodigal Son.

The flight also included the first attempt to make a space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft close to the Titan II upper stage which launched it into orbit, but this was not successful.

The Rockwell X-30 National Aero-Space Plane ( NASP ), begun in the 1980s, was an attempt to build a scramjet vehicle capable of operating like an aircraft and achieving orbit like the shuttle.

Aware that the Earth's orbit has become unstable, a third faction living peacefully on the moon known as the Lunar Corporation ( LC ) joins the war in an attempt to defeat or reconcile both sides for the common wealth.

The Falcon 9 rocket successfully reached orbit on its first attempt in June 2010.

Initial Falcon 1 flights were launched from the US government's Reagan Test Center on the island atoll of Kwajalein in the Pacific Ocean, and represented the first attempt to fly a ground-launched rocket to orbit from that site.