Earth's authalic (" equal area ") radius is the radius of a hypothetical perfect sphere which has the same surface area as the reference ellipsoid.

:* authalic latitude,

For example no one would need to calculate the authalic latitude of the Eiffel Tower.

An example of the use of the authalic latitude is the Albers equal-area conic projection.

The IUGG denotes the authalic radius as.

For Earth, the authalic radius is 6, 371. 0072 km (≈ 3, 958. 760 mi ; ≈ 3, 440. 069 nmi ).

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Hegel's profound admiration for the insights of the Greek tragedians indicates a broad channel of classical influence upon nineteenth-century philosophy.

Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The muscular frames and limbs combined with slim waists indicate the Greek desire for health, and the physical capacity which was necessary in the hard Greek environment.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.

The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

The magic word " Ablanathanalba ," which reads in Greek the same backward as forward, also occurs in the Abrasax-stones as well as in the magic papyri.

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

The word is derived from the Greek ( antiphōna ) via Old English, a word which originally had the same meaning as antiphon.

Even if the text of the Septuagint is proved to be the older, it does not necessarily follow that all these variations first arose after the Greek translation had been made, because two different editions of the same text might have been in process of development side by side ..."

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

Bulgaria's policy was that the agreement would limit Serbia's access to Macedonia, while at the same time Bulgaria could take as much as its army could regardless of Greek wishes.

The Buddha's teaching of the four elements does predate Greek teaching of the same four elements.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, presumably to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, which could have been used to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

Today, the numeral is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ ( ϛ ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.

In a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters " threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre ".

Moreover, the path is not a beaten highway of authorship, nor one in which the mind is eager to range: there is not one of us who has made the same venture, nor yet one Greek who has tackled single-handed all departments of the subject.

Herodotus is the first who stated the main characteristics of ethnicity, with his famous account of what defines Greek identity, where he lists kinship ( Greek: ὅμαιμον-homaimon, " of the same blood "), language ( Greek: ὁμόγλωσσον-homoglōsson, " speaking the same language "), cults and customs ( Greek: ὁμότροπον-homotropon, " of the same habits or life ").