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

The Oculus ( top ) in the dome of the Pantheon, Rome

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.

The Citizen Lab has benefited by generous donations of software and support from Palantir Technologies and Oculus Info Inc

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

Numerous cultivars have been selected, including the variegated semi-dwarf ' Oculus Draconis ', the pendulous, often contorted ' Pendula ' and the multi-trunked ' Umbraculifera ' ( Japanese 多形松, Tagyoushou, sometimes spelled as ' Tanyosho ').

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.

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.

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: Nationalgalleryoculus. jpg | Oculus of the West Building dome

Oculus means eye.

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.

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 )

* 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 ).

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.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Outer view of the Roman Empire | Roman Pantheon, Rome | Pantheon, still the largest unreinforced solid concrete dome.

Hadrian's Pantheon, Rome | Pantheon in Rome is an example of Roman concrete construction.

Many excellent examples of structures made from these concretes are still standing, notably the huge dome of the Pantheon in Rome and the massive Baths of Caracalla.

Mixtures of ground pozzolan and lime are the cements used by the Romans, and can be found in Roman structures still standing ( e. g. the Pantheon in Rome ).

The interior of the Pantheon ( Rome ) by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, ordered by and belonging to the art collection of Algarotti.

In Rome, he re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma.

In Rome, the Pantheon, originally built by Agrippa but destroyed by fire in 80, was rebuilt under Hadrian in the domed form it retains to this day.

* Pantheon, Rome, now a Catholic church, once a temple to the gods of ancient Rome

Boniface obtained leave from the Byzantine Emperor Phocas to convert the Pantheon in Rome into a Christian church, and on 13 May 609 (?

In the effort to Christianize Rome, Zachary built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva over an ancient temple to Minerva near the Pantheon.

* The Pantheon is constructed in ( Rome ) as it stands today by Hadrian.

* The Pantheon of Agrippa is reconstructed in Rome.

* Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome.

* Pantheon, in Rome, is started to be built ( approximate date ).

* Pantheon, Rome is finished.

* The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a church.

Raphael and Maria Bibbiena's tomb in the Pantheon, Rome | Pantheon.