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true and motion
However, since no equipment existed to show the images in motion, such a series of images cannot be called animation in a true sense of the word .< ref >
Although the mingling motion of dust particles is caused largely by air currents, the glittering, tumbling motion of small dust particles is, indeed, caused chiefly by true Brownian dynamics.
Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument ( also known as " Newton's bucket ") was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.
It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.
Despite their embrace of the principle of rectilinear inertia and the recognition of the kinematical relativity of apparent motion ( which underlies whether the Ptolemaic or the Copernican system is correct ), natural philosophers of the seventeenth century continued to consider true motion and rest as physically separate descriptors of an individual body.
Newton says: " One can find out and measure the true and absolute circular motion of the water ".
The fictitious mean sun is the annual average of this nonuniform motion of the true Sun, necessitating the inclusion of mean in Greenwich Mean Time.
French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used true stop motion to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films, but never exploited the process for any of his other films.
The wind that a boat experiences is the combination of the true wind ( i. e. the wind relative to a stationary object ) and the wind that occurs due to the forward motion of the boat.
Controlling the Senate for a while, Whigs passed a censure motion denouncing Jackson's arrogant assumption of executive power in the face of the true will of the people as represented by Congress.
On this claim, he deduced that the heart was not a true muscle due to its obvious involuntary nature of its motion.
Using his trademark extreme slow motion, Viola's pieces used actors to portray the metaphorical story behind Wagner's story, seeing for example the first act as an extended ritual of purification in which the characters disrobe and wash themselves before finally plunging headlong into water together ( in Wagner's story, the two characters maintain the facade of being indifferent to each other ( necessary because Isolde is betrothed to Tristan's uncle ) before, mistakenly believing they are going to die anyway, and reveal their true feelings ).
A true carving turn was not easy, because the lateral motion of the leg would not be transmitted to the ski through the ski boots of the era.
While Columb's law ( as given above ) is only true for stationary point charges, Gauss's law is true for all charges either in static or in motion.
Due to the constant, and unvarying speed of light ( that is also constant ; without regard to whatever is the velocity of the eminating or reflecting source ), the true ( i. e., instantaneous ) velocities of distant stars cannot be observed ; the observed proper motion reflects the motion ( velocity ) of a star at the time the light was emitted from that source.

true and sun
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).
It is true that there were men in his own time, and will be men in all times, who are better pleased to count spots in the sun than to rejoice in its glorious brightness.
* The calculation of the Chinese calendar begins to use true motions of the sun and moon modeled using two offset opposing parabolas.
The true folk-astronomical definitions of east and west are " the directions, a right angle from the prime direction, that are closest to the rising and setting, respectively, of the sun ( or moon ).
If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2 < sup > 64 </ sup >− 1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615 turns to finish, much longer than the predicted lifespan of the sun.
They are calculated on the basis of the apparent motion of the sun through the twelve zodiacs rather than the true tropical movement of the earth.
Furthermore, when a false belief involves a value judgment, it is only considered as a delusion if it is so extreme that it cannot be or ever can be proven true ( example: a man claims that he flew into the sun and flew back home.
There is not a true midnight sun in Helgeland, although the upper part of the sun disc will be above the horizon all night in June as far south as Mosjøen.
Due to atmospheric refraction, there is no true polar night in Bodø, but because of the mountains south of Bodø, the sun is not visible from the city from early December to early January.
At true solar noon at London ( latitude 51 ° 30 ′ N ), the sun is at an angle of ( 90-51, 5 =) 38. 5 degrees above the horizon at the equinoxes.
The work provided the true daily positions of the sun, moon and planets for four years from 1088 to 1092, as well as many other related tables.
On all other days, depending on the time of year, the sun rises either north or south of true east ( and sets north or south of true west ).
The separation of heaven and earth, the creation of the sun, the moon and stars, the origin of fire and water, the origin of clothing and cooking, the genesis of humans, and the fight over this world and the underworld are systematically organized and well presented in this story, which conveys the true essence of mythological philosophy.
The work provided the true daily positions of the sun for four Julian years from 1088 to 1092, the true positions of the five planets every 5 or 10 days over a period of 8 years for Venus, 79 years for Mars, and so forth, as well as other related tables.
At the summer solstice the setting sun should shine through the " west " window ( actually just south of true west ) onto a niche in the inner wall, next to the " south " window.
In the last true tournament held in England in 1342 at Dunstable, the mêlée was postponed so long by jousting that the sun was sinking by the time the lines charged.
The plausibility of the " sun will rise tomorrow " ( i. e., the probability of that being true ) will then be the proportion of stars that do not " die ", e. g., by becoming novae, and so failing to " rise " on their planets ( those that still exist, irrespective of the probability that there may then be none, or that there may then be no observers ).
He wrote several books, including Outlines of a mechanical theory of storms ( 1853 ) and The true theory of the sun ( 1884 ).
* The true theory of the sun, showing the common origin of the solar spots and corona, and of atmospheric storms and cyclones ( 1884 )

true and was
That was true, but only half the truth.
That was his true love, not Penny.
This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
Helion did not realize it at the time, but it was true.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
What was true for archaeology was also true of place-name studies.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
Something was happening all right, slowly it is true, but you could feel it.
It was true.
But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.
This was true mostly of those Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not perceive the ambiguous figure as people in action.
Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.
It is true that, initially, the task was to remove restrictions that, it was thought, inhibited the free flow of money, goods, and labor ; ;
Particularly was this true as laissez-faire capitalism became the dominant credo of Western society.
Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.
But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as well as of typography ; ;

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