* Oculus sinister, meaning " left eye " in eyeglass prescriptions

Oculus ( plural oculi ) is the Latin word for eye, and the word remains in use in certain contexts, as the name of the round opening in the top of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome, and in reference to other round windows, openings, and skylights.

It has the traditional names Ain ( Arabic عين ), or Oculus Borealis, both of which mean " eye ".

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

Johann Zahn's " Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium, which was published in 1685, contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and of the magic lantern.

In 2010, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's opened St Paul's Oculus, a 270 ° film experience that brings 1400 years of history to life.

Oculus was funded by American Express Company in partnership with the World Monuments Fund, J. P.

Image: Mantegna. jpg | Oculus on the ceiling of the Spouses Chamber, castle of San Giorgio in Mantua, Italy, by Andrea Mantegna

File: Oculus of the Phanteon. JPG | Oculus of the Pantheon.

File: Nationalgalleryoculus. jpg | Oculus of the West Building dome

auch Heinrich Meyer zu Ermgassen, Bearb., Der Oculus Memorie ein Güterverzeichnis von 1211 aus Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau, Teil 2: Edition, Wiesbaden 1984 (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, Bd.

The Oculus in the Pantheon, Rome, has always been open to the weather, allowing rain to enter and fall to the floor, where it is carried away through drains.

Image: Oculus of mercury. jpg | Detail of oculus set in a cartouche with the head of Mercury ( Beaux-Arts New York and New Jersey Telephone Company Building, Brooklyn )

An anonymous writer composed a short guide for the would-be podestà ( though it would be unseemly to appear openly to run for the office ), Oculus pastoralis, of about 1222 ; in six simple and brief chapters it guides the novice through the requirements of the office, the salary, the address of welcome given by the retiring podestà to the new one, the choice of counsellors, the handling of money accounts.

* Lt. Linderman Oculus ( Monitor Division Director )-Observed Alpha Flight for signs of regression from brainwashing.

File: Oculus Santa Maria Assunta di Collemaggio. jpg | Italy, L ' Aquila, Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio ( 1287 ).

The Oculus Rift is an upcoming virtual reality ( VR ) head-mounted display created by Palmer Luckey that the company Oculus LLC is developing for virtual reality simulations and video games.

He collected his poems in 1720, and wrote another university satire, Oculus Britanniæ, in 1724.

In 1645, he published Oculus Enoch et Eliae, siue, Radius sidereomysticus, a very influential work on optics and astronomy.

In Oculus Enoch et Eliae, besides describing one of his inventions, an eyepiece for a Keplerian telescope, which left the image reverted, it also contained a long section on binocular telescopes, which greatly influenced other telescope-makers and opticians in the next century.

While a number of interesting celestial objects are readily identified by the naked eye, sometimes with the aid of a star chart, many others are so faint or inconspicuous that technical means are necessary to locate them.

A variety of verbal and non-verbal means of communicating exists such as body language, eye contact, sign language, haptic communication, chronemics, and media such as pictures, graphics, sound, and writing.

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.

The more technical term, " costume ," has become so linked in the public eye with the term " fashion " that the more general term " costume " has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term " fashion " means clothing generally, and the study of it.

Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.

47 Tucanae has a magnitude of 3. 9, meaning that it is visible to the naked eye ; it is a Shapley class III cluster, which means that it has a clearly defined nucleus.

This means, for example, that to the human eye it has the same apparent brightness ( or luminance ).

This means that the light from an object on the other side will be bent towards your eye, just like an ordinary lens.

The word ophthalmology comes from the Greek roots ophthalmos meaning eye and logos meaning word, thought, or discourse ; ophthalmology literally means " the science of eyes ".

* In the Thai language the sharp corner of the eye closest to the nose is referred to as " Yoni Tha " where " Tha " means the eye.

* In season five of the television series Angel, recurring villain Lindsey McDonald has symbols derived from Enochian tattooed on his body to avoid detection by any means other than the naked eye, including the powers of the Senior Partners.

Critic and artist Roger Fry did something to restore it in the 1930s, when he described Lawrence as having a " consummate mastery over the means of artistic expression " with an " unerring hand and eye ".

However, the human eye contains only three color receptors ( 3 types of cone cells ), which means that all colors are reduced to three sensory quantities, called the tristimulus values.

On the other, to speak of the machine or technology which coordinates suggests an infrastructure through which the social is collectively organized, which suggests the removal of subjects from the means of their organization: a god's eye view of the social that is only coordinated by the movement of the parts.

This means that the eye has far more resolution in contrast, or " luminance ", than in color.

Large lenses can gather and concentrate light, thus intensifying light with purely optical means and enabling the user to see better in the dark than with the naked eye alone.

When the covered eye is the non-amblyopic eye, the amblyopic eye suddenly becomes the person's only means of seeing.

As with the open face, it is not uncommon to augment this helmet's eye protection through other means such as goggles.

In his first publication, he had also stressed the importance of the subject concentrating both vision and thought, referring to " the continued fixation of the mental and visual eye " as a means of engaging a natural physiological mechanism that was already hard-wired into each human being:

* Algol ( β Per ): The most well-known star in Perseus, Algol ( from the Arabic Ra's al-Ghul, which means The Demon's Head ) represents the eye of the gorgon Medusa.

Perhaps drawing inspiration from Ohkawa's own poor right-eye vision, Clamp frequently features one-eyed characters or characters that lose their sight in one eye as means to express the feeling of loneliness.