Probably built upon Roman foundations, Deruta's name in its early variants ( Ruto, Ruta, Rupta, Direpta and Diruta ) all signify the “ ruin ” of this strategic site caused by the 6th-century Gothic War and the Lombard invasion.

The Hebrew Bible used poetic language consistent with that of the ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, such as in the Enuma Elish, which described a circular earth with a solid roof, surrounded by water above and below, as illustrated by references to the " foundations of the earth " and the " circle of the earth " in the following examples:

A Corinthian capital carefully buried in antiquity in the foundations of the circular tholos at Epidaurus was recovered during modern archaeological campaigns.

This roughly circular temple was found on top of Chapel Hill a little to the south of the fort, its walls of undressed stone facing with an earth and rubble infill enclosed an area measuring about 17¼ ft. across ; the insubstantial foundations indicate that the superstructure was at least half-timbered.

Only the foundations remain of 3 circular stone walls separated by ditches.

A recent dig just beyond the boundary of Burghead at Clarckly Hill has uncovered Iron Age circular stone houses, Pictish building foundations as well as silver and bronze roman coins.

The ostracon was found on a large circular platform, possibly the foundations of a storage silo on the Halif Terrace.

Although no structure remains, the foundations indicate that it had a circular keep.

Lerna IV ( Early Helladic III ) marked a fresh start, not as a fortified seat of central authority this time, but as a small town, with houses of two and three rooms with walls of crude brick set upon stone foundations ; several had central circular hearths.

Due to its proximity to a railway tunnel, the main load was built on to a twin ring of piled foundations directly beneath the circular structural core.

The tower sections are single-cavity hyperboloids of rotation made of straight beams, the ends of which rest against circular foundations.

Originally the site consisted of: a temple, traces of which survive in the foundations of the present temple ; a circular monument, which was probably destined for processions or dances around a grove of sacred trees ; and a formalized Archaic Altar and Precinct.

In the north of the court a baptistery pool was added to the basilical complex and the foundations of a mosaic paved building beside the pool may possibly be a bishops residence.

The Earthquake bombs were designed not to strike a target directly, but to impact beside it, penetrate under it, and create a ' camouflet ' or large buried cavern at the same time as delivering a shock wave through the target's foundations.

As they become available during the deal, the two J < font color = red >♥</ font > and the four black 10s ( two 10 ♠ and two 10 ♣) are placed beside the two cards already present also form the foundations.

Ancient Greek philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle laid the foundations of ecology in their studies on natural history.

Geotechnical engineering uses principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics to investigate subsurface conditions and materials ; determine the relevant physical / mechanical and chemical properties of these materials ; evaluate stability of natural slopes and man-made soil deposits ; assess risks posed by site conditions ; design earthworks and structure foundations ; and monitor site conditions, earthwork and foundation construction.

Later on, Pierre Gassendi represented the materialist tradition, in opposition to René Descartes ' attempts to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations.

" Ludwig von Mises states that he relaid the general sociological and economic foundations of the liberal doctrine upon utilitarianism, rather than natural law, but R. A. Gonce argues that " the reality of the argument constituting his system overwhelms his denial.

It is on this basis that spiritual science is possible, with radically different epistemological foundations than those of natural science.

) by an appropriate huge natural number — unambiguity of both representation and interpretation can be established by number theoretical foundations of these techniques.

In contrast to Hume then, Kant insists that reason itself ( German Vernunft ) has natural ends itself, the solution to the metaphysical problems, especially the discovery of the foundations of morality.

He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus.

While his work in natural philosophy is probably overshadowed by Aristotle, it still helped lay the foundations for much of the progress that was made in the later centuries.

Aristotle lay the foundations of Western natural philosophy.

Generally, the foundations of a field of study, refers to a more-or-less systematic analysis of its most basic or fundamental concepts, its conceptual unity and its natural ordering or hierarchy of concepts, which may help to connect it with the rest of human knowledge.

They also both depended on the re-emergence of natural law upon secular foundations.

In law, he tried to prove that the rules of Roman law, which contradicted his own principles of natural law, had never actually been accepted and were therefore invalid ; he also tried to legitimize his own principles by showing them to be common law built on Germanic foundations.

He declared, " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.

The sculpture originally rose from the river on its own foundations, abutting the bridge ; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island, which is planted as the teardrop-shaped Parc Vert Galant in honour of Henry IV, the " Green Gallant " King.

She consulted Dong about her incertitude, and Dong Xi emboldened the former by saying, " The lands east of the Yangzi enjoy natural barriers from mountains and rivers, while the good government and virtue of Sun Ce have already attracted the people, lord Sun Quan can build on these foundations, so that great and small may follow his commands.

) by an appropriate huge natural number — unambiguity of both representation and interpretation can be established by number theoretical foundations of these techniques.

This conclusion was explicitly ( and notoriously ) drawn by early modern political theorist Hugo Grotius: " What we have been saying the natural law would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that which cannot be conceded without the utmost wickedness, that there is no God, or that the affairs of men are of no concern to him " On such a view, God is no longer a " law-giver " but at most a " law-transmitter " who plays no vital role in the foundations of morality.

According to River Forest Thomism, also called Aristotelian-Thomism, the natural sciences are epistemologically prior to metaphysics, preferably called Metascience. This approach emphasizes the Aristotelian foundations of Aquinas ’ s philosophy, and in particular the idea that the construction of a sound metaphysics must be preceded by a sound understanding of natural science, as interpreted in light of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature.

Although he died before he could fully study his specimens, Péron made a major contribution to the foundations of the natural sciences in Australia and was a prescient ecological thinker.

He is best known for his work on proof theory and the foundations of natural deduction.

It has a fourfold purpose: ( 1 ) to support and pursue research in the history and conceptual foundations of the natural and social sciences ; ( 2 ) to study the impact of contemporary science on the humanities and the arts ; ( 3 ) to be an active participant in the growing dialogue between science and religion ; and ( 4 ) to pursue the mathematical development and empirical application of design-theoretic concepts in the natural sciences.

Construction was slowed by the discovery of springs on the site, which that meant piles had to be sunk to form the foundations.

Then, following the programme he outlined in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians, he introduced the theory of schemes, developing it in detail in his Éléments de géométrie algébrique ( EGA ) and providing the new more flexible and general foundations for algebraic geometry that has been adopted in the field since that time.

This is philosophically unsatisfying to some and has motivated additional work in set theory and other methods of formalizing the foundations of mathematics such as New Foundations by Willard Van Orman Quine.

The wall also has twelve foundations which are adorned with precious stones, and upon the foundations are written the names of the twelve apostles.

Understanding the probabilistic aspects of dynamical systems has helped establish the foundations of statistical mechanics and of chaos.

Haute cuisine (, " high cuisine ") has foundations during the 17th century with a chef named La Varenne.

* " For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's ; upon them he has set the world.

I. E. S. Edwards discusses Strabo's mention that the pyramid " a little way up one side has a stone that may be taken out, which being raised up there is a sloping passage to the foundations.

Ground improvement has developed into a sophisticated tool to support foundations for a wide variety of structures.

The initial Firearms ( Temporary Provisions ) Act, 1924 which was introduced as emergency legislation following the founding of the state, was replaced by the Firearms Act, 1925, which laid the foundations of the system of licencing that has continued unaltered until quite recently.

The foundations of Genoshan society has been upset in recent years due to the efforts of outside mutant interests.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

Since its inception, mathematical logic has both contributed to, and has been motivated by, the study of foundations of mathematics.

This section was influenced by maxixe dance and basically played the piano — unlike the Rio samba played in the Morros hills — and the composer has musician Sinhô, self-titled o rei do samba (" the king of Samba ") which with other pioneers such as Heitor dos Prazeres and Caninha, lay the first foundations of the musical genre.

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

The Turkish Army has its foundations in remnants of the Ottoman forces inherited after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.

An Islamic state is a state that has adopted Islam, specifically Sharia, as its foundations for political institutions, or laws, exclusively, and has implemented the Islamic ruling system khilafah ( Arabic: خلافة ), and is therefore a theocracy.

Leonid Grigoriev has stated that Russian larch was imported to build some of Venice's foundations.

The IPCC has received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 " for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

Its area was approximately equal to that of the " newer " Sparta, but denudation has wreaked havoc with its buildings and nothing is left save ruined foundations and broken potsherds.

The United Nations Foundation has collected more than $ 125 million from other places, including from other foundations, corporations, NGOs, and individuals.

Dirac, who had just then been intensely involved with working out the foundations of Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, immediately understood that these conditions could be met if A, B, C and D are matrices, with the implication that the wave function has multiple components.