These ruins were mentioned by Sima Qian, in his Records of the Grand Historian and described in some detail by Li Daoyuan in his Commentary to the River Classic published during the Southern and Northern Dynasties Period ( 420-589 CE ).

Two early examples were the Shen yi jing ( 神異經 " Classic of Divine Marvels ") by Dongfang Shuo ( 154 BCE – 93 CE ) and the Shui Jing Zhu ( 水經注 " Commentary on the Classic of Waterways ") by Li Daoyuan ( d. 527 CE ).

In the 6th century, the book was expanded to forty times its original size by the geographers Li Daoyuan, given the new title of Shui Jing Zhu ( The Waterways Classic Commented ).

Daoyuan ( Chinese: 道院, " Sanctuary of the Tao ") is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects.

These critics state that Mary Baker Eddy's interpretation of Christian scripture diverges too greatly from basic tenets of Christianity.

Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings ( often as alternate worlds whose history diverges from our own ), adventures, and other game material.

The metatarsal bones of feet and paws are tightly grouped compared to, most notably, the human hand where the thumb metacarpal diverges from the rest of the metacarpus.

However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account of this apocalypse diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.

While Rousseau's notion of the progressive moral degeneration of mankind from the moment civil society established itself diverges markedly from Spinoza's claim that human nature is always and everywhere the same ... for both philosophers the pristine equality of the state of nature is our ultimate goal and criterion ... in shaping the " common good ", volonté générale, or Spinoza's mens una, which alone can ensure stability and political salvation.

However, doubts have been cast that any existing whale or fish would be either capable and / or inclined to repeat the feat described, either due to size of mouth, narrowness of throat, or because it diverges so wildly from these animals ' normal eating habits.

The isometric latitude is zero at the equator but rapidly diverges from the geodetic latitude, tending to infinity at the poles.

The MAM thus offers a perspective on mitochondria that diverges from the traditional view of this organelle as a static, isolated unit appropriated for its metabolic capacity by the cell.

Finite model theory, which concentrates on finite structures, diverges significantly from the study of infinite structures in both the problems studied and the techniques used.

The universe depicted in the TV episodes and movies diverges from that in the novels, though many of the filmed presentations are based on, and named after, novels in the series.

This diverges from US soap operas where such comedy is rare.

The siting of the campanile within the Piazza del Duomo diverges from the axial alignment of the cathedral and baptistery of the Piazza del Duomo

Some of the air rising at the polar fronts diverges away from the poles and moves in the opposite direction to the high level zones of convergence and subsidence at the subtropical ridges on each side of the equator.

The border then takes a sharp turn around the tip of Rabun County, at latitude 35 ° N, though from this point it diverges slightly south ( due to inaccuracies in the original survey ).

Sumo, while considered a martial art, diverges from the typical Eastern style both at the surface and at its heart.

A virus of the species Zaire ebolavirus is an Ebola virus if it has the properties of Zaire ebolaviruses and if its genome diverges from that of the prototype Zaire ebolavirus, Ebola virus variant Mayinga ( EBOV / May ), by ≤ 10 % at the nucleotide level.

The name is also used in Variable Star, a novel outlined by Heinlein but written by Spider Robinson, although this novel diverges from the Future History.

However, when a system in question diverges to a significant extent from an idealized economic model or ideology, the task of identifying it can become problematic.

Her scenes are mostly what happened in times other than shown in the pilot episode " Encounter at Farpoint "; the story diverges from the " normal " time-frame as events in the finale occur.

It is by some fixed some 5 km southeast of the modern village of Cisterna di Latina just before the Via Appia enters the Pontine Marshes, at a point where the modern road to Ninfa and Norba diverges to the northeast, where a few ruins still exist ( Grotte di Nottola ), 53 km from Rome.

Amélie diverges in tone from his earlier films, as it has romantic and comedic elements and lacks his previous films ' dark mise-en-scene.

Ovid's version diverges from Euripides ' work in several areas.

The film diverges from both the book and the NBC TV adaptation in focusing on a central character, Second Officer Charles Lightoller, played by More.

The road is confusingly referred to as Stane Street in some sources, although it diverges from the main London-Chichester road at Kennington.

The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

The following plot shows the magnitude of the difference between the geodetic latitude, ( denoted as the ' common ' latitude on the plot ), and the auxiliary latitudes other than the isometric latitude ( which diverges to infinity at the poles ).

It lies inferior to the epiglottis and extends to the location where this common pathway diverges into the respiratory ( larynx ) and digestive ( esophagus ) pathways.

Because the Debian approach diverges significantly from the Exim one it is common to find a lack of support for the Debian approach on the regular Exim mailing-lists and users are pointed towards the Debian-specific list.

Highway 37 merges onto Highway 16 in Terrace, and the two highways share a common alignment for 91 km ( 57 mi ) northeast to the Kitwanga junction, where Highway 37 diverges north.

* Behavioral finance asserts that the market price often diverges from fair value because of various, common cognitive biases among buyers or sellers.

Between Davis and Porter, the subway diverges from the surface street pattern, using a deep bore tunnel.

The beam of a single transverse mode ( gaussian beam ) laser eventually diverges at an angle which varies inversely with the beam diameter, as required by diffraction theory.

The above series is a prototypical Dirichlet series that converges absolutely to an analytic function for s such that and diverges for all other values of s. Riemann showed that the function defined by the series on the half-plane of convergence can be continued analytically to all complex values.

The boundary with Jefferson Township is formed primarily by Northkill Creek, but diverges from the creek north of its confluence with Little Northkill Creek.

Due to diffraction, the beam diverges ( expands ) rapidly after leaving the chip, typically at 30 degrees vertically by 10 degrees laterally.

The fact that the harmonic series diverges was first proven in the 14th century by Nicole Oresme, but this achievement fell into obscurity.

It is possible to prove that the harmonic series diverges by comparing its sum with an improper integral.

Beethoven diverges from Diabelli's structure of two equal parts, each one repeated, by omitting a repeat for the first part.

The price of a closed-end fund is completely determined by the valuation of the market, and this price often diverges substantially from the NAV of the fund assets.

Amongst the more important points in which Hutcheson diverges from Locke is his account of the idea of personal identity, which he appears to have regarded as made known to us directly by consciousness.

A short distance north of the A5, the B4114 diverges from the line of the Fosse Way to pass through the village of Sharnford, while for the route of the Fosse Way is followed by a minor road, named Roman Road which, although single track, runs along a much wider and slightly domed strip of land with deep ditches either side ( the agger ).

* Bova Ski Hill Access Road diverges from ASP Route 2 at the fork in the road about 1 / 2 mile South of Red House Lake ( by Camp Allegany ) and runs east for about past the former Red House garbage dump to the old Bova Ski Area.

Nakayama is served by the Uchiko line, which diverges from the Yosan Line at Mukaibara and continues on Iyo-Ohira Station and Iyo-Nakayama Station before entering Uchiko and eventually rejoining the Yosan Line in Ōzu.

Although it diverges from the mathematical constraints of Palladio and it is likely that the immediate precedent for the H shaped plan, straddling a road is the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo.

Then follow the last two lines of the poem diverges from the Biblical account, set apart for greater effect: " But the old man would not so, but slew his son, / and half the seed of Europe, one by one.

As traditional Judaism believes that God's word is true eternally, one who claims to speak in God's name but diverges in any way from what God Himself has said, logically cannot be inspired by Divine authority.

The term " underground hip hop " has been used to describe both indie hip hop ( which is defined by its artists being unsigned or signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels ) as well as alternative hip hop ( which is defined by music that diverges from mainstream hip hop music such as gangsta rap ).

The Rykneild Street ( which between Washford and Ipsley diverges considerably from its original line ) was, until the end of the 18th century, the main road to Birmingham ; the present road between Spernall Ash ( on the southern boundary of Studley parish ) and Digbeth in Birmingham was turnpiked by an Act of 1721.

Under the APT, an asset is mispriced if its current price diverges from the price predicted by the model.