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The image on this stone is dated to the 8th or 9th century.
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Moreover, from the definitive transformation of intercepts on the generators of Af, it is clear that the only points of Q at which a line can meet its image are the points of Aj.
Now the only way in which all curves of the image family of Af can pass through a fixed point is to have a generator of Af which is not a secant but a tangent of **zg, for then any point on such a generator will be transformed into the point of tangency.
A conic, C, being a ( 1, 1 ) curve on Q, meets the image of any line of Af, which we have already found to be a Af curve on Q, in Af points.
If **ya is the multiple secant of **zg which passes through Af and **yb is the simple secant of **zg which passes through Af, and if Af are the points in which **ya meets **zg, and if Af is the image of Af on the generator **yb, it follows that the image of the line Af is Af.
If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.
As retinal images are conceded to be an integral function of the brain it seems logical to suppose that the nerves, between the inner brain and the eyes, carry the direct drive for cooperation from the various brain centers -- rather than to theorize on the transmission of an image which is already in required location.
But as conversation goes on, particularly among the realtors themselves, another image emerges, that of considerable power and influence in the community.
Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.
Divination was based on spontaneous movements of this image.
The forms on earth, are imperfect imitations ( εικών, ikon: image ) of the celestial world of numbers.
* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")
For each picture frame, the 6502 writes graphics commands for the DVG into a defined area of RAM ( the vector RAM ), and then asks the DVG to draw the corresponding vector image on the screen.
There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.
The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.
The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.
Anisotropic filtering ( AF ) is a method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces that are far away and steeply angled with respect to the point of view.
Click on the image for geographical details.
image: Goelbench06390140. JPG | The unique shape of the serpentine bench enables the people sitting on it to converse privately, although the square is large.
As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.
alt = Tapestry image of a man on horseback holding a falcon
Contemporary portrait of Afonso V of Portugal, as depicted in the Itinerarium of Georg von Ehingen ( printed 1600, Augsburg, but based on earlier image c. 1470 )
* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.
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On the reverse of the stone is another image parallel to it that has been described as Christ triumphing over Satan.
Irenaeus climaxes with the destruction of all kingdoms at the Second Advent, when Christ, the prophesied " stone ," cut out of the mountain without hands, smites the image after Rome ’ s division.
The giant image was carved in 981 AD., by order of Chavundaraya, the minister of the Ganga King Rachamalla, and is considered the largest stone sculpture in the world.
Lithography originally used an image drawn ( etched ) into a coating of wax or an oily substance applied to a plate of lithographic stone as the medium to transfer ink to a blank paper sheet, and so produce a printed page.
To print an image lithographically, the flat surface of the stone plate is roughened slightly — etched — and divided into hydrophilic regions that accept a film of water, and thereby repel the greasy ink ; and hydrophobic regions that repel water and accept ink because the surface tension is greater on the greasy image area, which remains dry.
The image can be printed directly from the stone plate ( the orientation of the image is reversed ), or it can be offset, by transferring the image onto a flexible sheet ( rubber ) for printing and publication.
A wide range of oil-based media is available, but the durability of the image on the stone depends on the lipid content of the material being used, and its ability to withstand water and acid.
After the drawing of the image, an aqueous solution of gum arabic, weakly acidified with nitric acid is applied to the stone.
The gum solution penetrates into the pores of the stone, completely surrounding the original image with a hydrophilic layer that will not accept the printing ink.
When the hydrophobic image is loaded with ink, the stone and paper are run through a press which applies even pressure over the surface, transferring the ink to the paper and off the stone.
alt = A stone tablet, inscribed with the image of a football pitch and several names.
An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.
Sleipnir is generally accepted as depicted on two 8th century Gotlandic image stones ; the Tjängvide image stone and the Ardre VIII image stone.
Two of the 8th century picture stones from the island of Gotland, Sweden depict eight-legged horses, which are thought by most scholars to depict Sleipnir: the Tjängvide image stone and the Ardre VIII image stone.
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Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.
Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''
Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.
The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.
The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.
For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.
In establishing conditions of self-help, it is important that we not expect countries to remake themselves in our image.
When this linear draft is completed, I dust it down to a faint image.
Consider a simple, closed, plane curve C which is a real-analytic image of the unit circle, and which is given by Af.
The line Af is the image of L.
The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.
It is interesting that a 1: 1 correspondence can be established between the lines of two such pencils, so that in a sense a unique image can actually be assigned to each tangent.
Hence, thought of as a line in a particular plane **yp, any tangent to Q has a unique image and moreover this image is the same for all planes through L.
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