A Magus is further limited in terms of the spell's application: Ars Magica features a set of magical ' laws ', similar in concept to those of physics, defining the upper limits of any magical spell ( Creo Corpus, for example, cannot create ' true ' life, nor can it restore the dead ; magic, in general, cannot affect the flow of time, nor can it affect the ' lunar sphere or anything above it ' ( i. e. the realms of the Divine, according to medieval thought )).

Scholars of this period include Varahamihira and Aryabhata, who is believed to be the first to come up with the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses.

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number ; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month ( or double nine ) has too much yang ( a traditional Chinese spiritual concept ) and is thus a potentially dangerous date.

According to Ronald Hutton, the concept of a Triple Goddess with Maiden, Mother and Crone aspects and lunar symbology was Robert Graves's contribution to modern paganism.

Tide alludes to the concept of ebbing and flowing, but also the contrast between waves on the shore having one rhythm, with the longer rate of lunar tides below.

Plans for outfitting an Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) as a space rescue vehicle date back to November 1965 when North American Rockwell technicians conceived the possibility of a rescue mission for astronauts trapped in lunar orbit., After a rescue mission in Earth orbit was depicted in the 1969 film Marooned, the company revived the concept in November 1970.

LESA ( Lunar Exploration System for Apollo ) represented the last lunar base concept studied by NASA prior to the cancellation of further Saturn V production.

The concept of launching another Skylab into lunar orbit using a spare S-IVB was briefly discussed around the same time, but no justification could be found for it, so the project was abandoned early on.

The drawing shows Soyuz 7K ( right ), Soyuz 9K booster, and Soyuz 11K tanker with twin whip antennas ( left ) In its preliminary Moon plans, Korolyov's design bureau initially promoted the Soyuz A-B-C circumlunar complex concept under which a two-man spacecraft would rendezvous with other components in Earth orbit to assemble a lunar flyby excursion vehicle.

The figure was named " Lunar Day ", and it represents a historical concept of the lunar surface appearance.

At times the Egyptians called the lunar eye the " Eye of Horus ", a concept with its own complex mythology and symbolism, and called the solar eye the " Eye of Ra "— Ra being the preeminent sun god in ancient Egyptian religion.

* Panopticon, the concept to which the name of the CSA's lunar Panopticon refers

In late 1972, they developed the concept of Moonbase 3, as an anthology series set on a lunar colony that would " provide intelligent, realistic drama rather than Science Fantasy ", and submitted a pilot script, titled " Departure and Arrival ", to Shaun Sutton, the Head of Drama at the BBC.

The figure was named " Lunar Day ", and it represents a historical concept of the lunar surface appearance.

Curiosity rover | Curiosity vaporizes some Mars rock with its laser ( Artist concept ).

Originally, the ExoMars concept consisted of a large robotic rover being part of ESA's Aurora programme as a Flagship mission and was approved by Europe's space ministers in December 2005.

In April 2011, because of a budgeting crisis, a proposal was announced to cancel the accompanying MAX-C rover, and fly only one rover in 2018 that would be larger than either of the vehicles in the paired concept.

As indicated there, the QOTD concept predated the specification, when QOTD was used by mainframe sysadmins to broadcast a daily quote on request by a user.

The OS-tan are not an original concept and are predated by Toy's iMac Girl, who was featured on a series of desktops released between August 1998 and March 1999.

Notably, the initiative predated the Bologne Declaration by several years, and the concept anticipated many of the later policy developments at European level to create a cooperative and integrated educational space within the European Union.

Some of her famous songs which predated the concept of item number are " Man dole mera tan dole " from Nagin, " Ab Aage Teri Marzi " and " O Jaanewale Ruk Jaa " from Devdas, " Kaho Ji Tum Kya Kya Kharidoge " from Sadhna, " Chadh Gayo Paapi Bichhua " from Madhumati, " Neele Gagan Ki Chaoon Tale " from Amrapali and " Hothon pe aisi baat " from Jewel Thief.

Fawcett's counterargument was that although the two characters were indeed similar, and Superman's publication debut predated Captain Marvel's by eighteen months, the differences in essential plot and concept elements ( Captain Marvel's alter-ego was a child, not an adult ; his powers were magic-based, not science-based ) meant that Captain Marvel was not an infringement of National's copyrighted character, but a property in its own right.

While the idea of linguistic asymmetry predated the actual coining of the terms ‘ marked ’ and ‘ unmarked ’ the modern concept of markedness originated in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy as a means of characterizing binary oppositions.

In the final design, the SWS and ATM were launched together, but for the single-launch concept to work, the ATM had to pivot 90 degrees on a truss structure from its launch position to its on-orbit orientation, clearing the way for the crew to dock its Apollo Command / Service Module at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.

The program formally commenced in 1972, although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, and was the sole focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s.

A similar concept, also named SSTV, was used on Faith 7 as well as on the early years of the NASA Apollo program.

Once the Americans abandoned their Skylab station in 1974, the Apollo-Salyut concept seemed to be the logical choice, but since the Soviets had started to develop a universal docking adapter for the mission and feared having to publicly reveal details of their military-focused Salyut missions, the two powers opted to link a Soyuz spacecraft with an Apollo spacecraft.

In 1990, Roena tried to revive the concept of Apollo Sound.

Lunar orbit rendezvous ( LOR ) is a key concept for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth and was first utilized for the Project Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s.

Thousands of factors contributed to the ultimate success of Apollo, but no single factor was more essential than the concept of lunar-orbit rendezvous.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

For, in accordance with Mr. Lowell's concept of an advisory board, our selections are made by experienced selectors who give both constancy and consistency to our processes and our choices.

The primary deterrent appears to lie with the technical people themselves, and their concept of what constitutes status in present-day society.

The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.

In an over-all ASW concept, dependence on and effort expended for such systems should be limited to those with proven capabilities.

The concept of good nutrition really began with the garden.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

A third concept was proposed in 1923 by Gilbert N. Lewis which includes reactions with acid-base characteristics that do not involve a proton transfer.

Christianity and Judaism employ the concept of paradox synonymously with ' ambiguity '.

A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain " the ashes ".

Pope Gregory I repeats the concept, articulated over a century earlier by Gregory of Nyssa that the saved suffer purification after death, in connection with which he wrote of " purgatorial flames ".

The atomic orbital concept is therefore a key concept for visualizing the excitation process associated with a given transition.

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

In the 1960s, Robert Mandrou and Georges Duby harmonized the concept of mentalité history with Fernand Braudel's structures of historical time and linked mentalities with changing social conditions.