Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

Generally, an image of a small object is made using a lens to focus the illuminating radiation, as is done with the rays of the visible spectrum in light microscopy.

The use of glass in buildings is a transparent feature to allow light to enter into rooms and floors, illuminating enclosed spaces and framing an exterior view through a window.

In addition to having the scientific and engineering acumen to perfect strobe lighting commercially, Edgerton is equally recognized for his visual aesthetic: many of the striking images he created in illuminating phenomena that occurred too fast for the naked eye adorn art museums worldwide.

The liberal-communitarian debate is often considered valuable for generating a new set of philosophical problems, rather than a profound and illuminating clash of perspectives.

" According to the latter, skepticism is treated as a problem to be solved, or challenge to be met, or threat to be parried ; skepticism's value on this view, insofar as it is deemed to have one, accrues from its role as a foil contrastively illuminating what is required for knowledge and justified belief.

This article is an introduction to how game theory and computer modeling are illuminating certain aspects of moral and political philosophy, particularly the role of individuals in groups, the " biology of selfishness and altruism ", and how cooperation can be evolutionarily advantageous.

The intensity of light illuminating the object is known ( from its distance to the Sun ), and one assumes that most of its surface is in thermal equilibrium ( usually not a bad assumption for an airless body ).

I, Ulfila, bishop and confessor, have always so believed, and in this, the one true faith, I make the journey to my Lord ; I believe in one God the Father, the only unbegotten and invisible, and in his only-begotten son, our Lord and God, the designer and maker of all creation, having none other like him ( so that one alone among all beings is God the Father, who is also the God of our God ); and in one Holy Spirit, the illuminating and sanctifying power, as Christ said after his resurrection to his apostles: " And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you ; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be clothed with power from on high " ( Luke 24: 49 ) and again " But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you " ( Acts 1: 8 ); being neither God ( the Father ) nor our God ( Christ ), but the minister of Christ ... subject and obedient in all things to the Son ; and the Son, subject and obedient in all things to God who is his Father ... ( whom ) he ordained in the Holy Spirit through his Christ.

In the usage of modern practitioners of the artistic crafts of writing, illuminating, lettering, and bookbinding, " vellum " is normally reserved for calfskin, while any other skin is called " parchment ".

When an area element is radiating as a result of being illuminated by an external source, the irradiance ( energy or photons / time / area ) landing on that area element will be proportional to the cosine of the angle between the illuminating source and the normal.

LIDAR ( Light Detection And Ranging, also LADAR ) is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of a target by illuminating the target with light, often using pulses from a laser.

Vesākha is also a time for great joy and happiness, expressed not by pandering to one ’ s appetites but by concentrating on useful activities such as decorating and illuminating temples, painting and creating exquisite scenes from the life of the Buddha for public dissemination.

At the root of Rothko and Gottlieb ’ s presentation of archaic forms and symbols as subject matter illuminating modern existence had been the influence of Surrealism, Cubism, and abstract art.

It also provides illuminating insight to the culture at NASA.

While the musical performance was more mainstream, the stage show was another over-the-top spectacle, featuring inflatable giraffes, dancers in eye ball masks illuminating the darkened stage with work lights, and a lead vocalist who seemed to change costumes throughout the show from wearing his eyeball mask to wearing a Richard Nixon mask, and at one point wearing only a wig and fake ears.

Archaeological studies in and around the city have yielded at least 26 ancient Iron Age sites that contain many metallurgical tools and objects, illuminating the pre-European history of the city and surrounding area.

An illuminating example of the humiliations to which Wentworth subjected Boyle, was the instance where he forced Boyle to remove his wife ’ s tomb from the choir in St Patrick ’ s at Dublin.

Early in the morning before dawn, at around 5: 00 a. m. Moscow time, the searchlights that had been illuminating the main entrance to the theater went out.

When reversed, a high-quality television monitor was set up in place of the projection screen, and unexposed film stock is run through at the point where the lamp was illuminating the film.

In 1860, Lenoir successfully created a double-acting engine that ran on illuminating gas at 4 % efficiency.

The amount of money lavished on her visit by the Dublin Castle administration was greater to her own personal contributions to famine relief ( one banquet, for instance, cost over £ 5, 000 ) and the official celebrations surrounding her visit were compared to the act of " illuminating a graveyard " in a newspaper editorial at the time.

Lighter colors and also whites and metallic substances absorb less illuminating light, and thus heat up less ; but otherwise color makes small difference as regards heat transfer between an object at everyday temperatures and its surroundings, since the dominant emitted wavelengths are nowhere near the visible spectrum, but rather in the far infrared.

" Nearing's reply was illuminating — he replied that he was a " pacifist " and left it at that.

* Cassegrain-In a Cassegrain antenna the feed is located on or behind the dish, and radiates forward, illuminating a convex hyperboloidal secondary reflector at the focus of the dish.

one might be found amongst the many spendthrifts of the present age, instead of ruining themselves by gaming, or laying snares to debauch young Females, by their false promises and many other bad vices ; would be rejoiced at such an opportunity, of reclaiming themselves by withdrawing from the snares laid for them by bad and designing Men and Women, who constantly lay wait to lead astray the young and unwary that are possessed of large property, such might here have the pleasure and satisfaction to make a real Paradise on earth, by illuminating a place that would for ever shine and display their generosity.

Active optical systems triangulate positions by illuminating one LED at a time very quickly or multiple LEDs with software to identify them by their relative positions, somewhat akin to celestial navigation.

The display used a unique form of multiplexing, illuminating a single LED segment at a time rather than a single LED digit, because HP research had shown that this method was perceived by the human eye as brighter for equivalent power.

The microprocessor cycles through illuminating the digits in this way at a rate high enough to create the illusion of all digits glowing at once via persistence of vision.

File: Yablochkov candles illuminating Music hall on la Place du Chateau d ' eau ca 1880. jpg | Yablochkov candles in Music hall at Place du Château d ' Eau in Paris, c. 1880

This work has aimed at illuminating and understanding the factors which influence people's judgments of whether an action was done intentionally.

Of the seven planned towers flanking the façades, only five are complete to the height of the base of the spires, two at the west front, with life-size figures of oxen beneath the arcades of their upper portion, two more, one at each end of the transept, and a square central crossing tower that forms a lantern illuminating the crossing.

Ten minutes before half, after another quick exchange between Ferrari and Meazza, the latter found the unmarked Colaussi with an illuminating pass, and winger netted his second of the game to make it 3 – 1 at the break.

To sever the universal God of nature that is according to the Pentateuch also known in other cultures behind their varying cults, from the personal God of history revealed at Sinai to Israel, as the Documentary Hypothesis implicitly does, is to distort one of the fundamental messages of the Pentateuch and Israelite religion itself, and Cassuto's remarks on the interplay of universalism and revelation within the text are particularly illuminating.

It was reputed to have one million electric light bulbs illuminating and outlining its buildings — quite a novelty at the time.

The uvavai Sutta has detailed and illuminating discussion on Mahavira's arrival at the city of Champa, the honour shown to him by Ajatasatru, the sermon given by Mahavira in Ardhamagadhi language, etc ..

To his astonishment, as soon as he breathed into the deep freezer, a bluish haze was noted, followed by an eye-popping display of millions of microscopic ice crystals, reflecting the strong light rays from the lamp illuminating a cross-section of the chamber.

' Forever Changes ,' originally released in 1967 and re-issued on a beautifully engineered disc that includes seven illuminating bonus tracks, freely mixes light and dark, with the melodic lyricism of ' Andmoreagain ' and ' The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This ,' matched by the apocalyptic sentiments of ' A House Is Not A Motel ' and ' The Red Telephone.

One view, termed " soft " primitivism in an illuminating book by Lovejoy and Boas, conceives of primitive life as a golden age of plenty, innocence, and happiness -- in other words, as civilized life purged of its vices.

One can compensate for this effect by using more sensitive photodetectors or by increasing the intensity of the illuminating laser point source.

In 1802 as part of the public celebrations of the Peace of Amiens he made a public exhibition of his lighting by illuminating the exterior of the Soho Foundry.

His concern with electric light was mainly prompted by the need to provide a safe method of illuminating the jute mills, where severe fires had devastated the lives of the workers.

Also, in the mesopelagic where some light still penetrates, some organisms camouflage themselves from predators below them by illuminating their bellies to match the color and intensity of light from above so that no shadow is cast.

In the Chabad writings of Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Hasidut is seen as able to unite all parts of Torah thought, from the schools of philosophy to mysticism, by uncovering the illuminating Divine essence that permeates and transcends all approaches.

The Lenoir engine ran on illuminating gas made from coal, which had been developed in Paris by Philip Lebon.

Thus, the frequency spectrum shown by reflection nebulae is similar to that of the illuminating stars.

Assuming that the scene contains objects which reflect all red light, and ( other ) objects which reflect all green light and still others which reflect all blue light, one can then deduce that the illuminating light source is described by ( r < sub > max </ sub >, g < sub > max </ sub >, b < sub > max </ sub >).

in a pipe by illuminating optics.

According to a release by the Abel Prize committee " Many of the major lines of research in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry are only possible because of the incisive contributions and illuminating insights of John Tate.