Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

This idea came from common law, and the earliest conception of a criminal act involved events of such major significance that the " State " had to usurp the usual functions of the civil tribunals, and direct a special law or privilegium against the perpetrator.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), But about one year after the rejection, Ivo Caprino's son, Remo Caprino, got the idea to make the sketches into a full-length film.

His initial idea was to use punch-cards to control a machine that could calculate and print logarithmic tables with huge precision ( a special purpose machine ).

) The idea of Minkowski space led to special relativity being viewed in a more geometrical way.

The word " reserve " was later replaced with " special " because the idea that the IMF was creating a foreign exchange reserve asset was contentious.

Chapter VIII addresses the idea that species had special characteristics that prevented hybrids from being fertile in order to preserve separately created species.

The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use " SKF " as the trademark for all its bearing products.

In 2009, Macy's and Macy's ad agency JWT produced Yes, Virginia, a CGI animated Christmas special, after pitching and selling the idea to CBS.

The idea of the special draft was conceived by Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.

Anne McGlone Burke, a physical education teacher with the Chicago Park District, began with the idea for a one-time Olympic-style athletic competition for people with special needs.

Jon Stone, who'd worked with Henson on ABC television special Hey, Cinderella !, discussed the idea with a reluctant Jim.

The essential idea behind relational quantum mechanics, following the precedent of special relativity, is that different observers may give different accounts of the same series of events: for example, to one observer at a given point in time, a system may be in a single, " collapsed " eigenstate, while to another observer at the same time, it may be in a superposition of two or more states.

These will give you an idea of what to think of ; for more examples, follow the links to special cases below.

In animation and special effects work, the storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called " animatics " to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing.

Shewhart's idea of common and special causes of variation led directly to Deming's theory of management.

Moreover, Mannheim has developed, and progressed, from the " total " but " special " Marxist conception of ideology to a " general " and " total " ideological conception acknowledging that all ideology ( including Marxism ) resulted from social life, an idea developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

You have no idea how difficult some of these authors are to deal with, and it seems a special thing among SF writers to hedge themselves behind almost impossible copyright barriers, even when they have got a story that is possible to do on television.

Moreover, the idea of protection of special places is universal: for example, it occurs among the communities in the Pacific (“ tapu ” areas ) and in parts of Africa ( sacred groves ).

The idea of the special draft was conceived by Winfield.

Even in videotex networks where third-party companies could post their own content and operate special services like forums, a single company usually owned and operated the underlying communications network, developed and deployed the necessary hardware and software, and billed both content providers and users for access. The exception was the transaction processing videotex system developed in the UK by Michael Aldrich in 1979, which brought teleshopping ( or online shopping as it was later called ) into prominence and was the idea developed later through the Internet.

Meyer came upon the idea of having assassins in special boots kill a weightless Gorkon after searching for a novel way to " blow away " the character in space that had not been seen before.

The idea of absolute simultaneity survived until 1905, when the special theory of relativity and its supporting experiments discredited it.

Taking up the idea of a divine education of the human race, and firmly believing that to each of the leading nations of antiquity a special task had been providentially assigned, Ewald felt no difficulty about Israel's place in universal history, or about the problem which that race had been called upon to solve.

This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

Since the dawn of Newtonian science with its vision of simple mechanical principles governing the entire universe, some philosophers have been tempted by the idea that consciousness could be explained in purely physical terms.

For one thing, if verbal reports are treated as observations, akin to observations in other branches of science, then the possibility arises that they may contain errors — but it is difficult to make sense of the idea that subjects could be wrong about their own experiences, and even more difficult to see how such an error could be detected.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander in the field of architecture and has been adapted for various other disciplines, including computer science.

His idea of a perfect science fiction story was " 75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science ".

The pages of the science fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea from 1945 to 1949 as " the Shaver Mystery ".

In more recent decades, the idea has become a staple of the science fiction and adventure genres, appearing in print, in film, on television, in comics, in role-playing games, and in many animated works.

In all of them I now note that there is less musical science, less of the grand idea, but more color, sunlight, flavor of olives.

Rabinow, a Foucault scholar interested in issues of the production of knowledge, used the topic to argue against the idea that scientific discovery is the product of individual work, writing, " Committees and science journalists like the idea of associating a unique idea with a unique person, the lone genius.

The doctrines included the opposition to all metaphysics, especially ontology and synthetic a priori propositions ; the rejection of metaphysics not as wrong but as having no meaning ; a criterion of meaning based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work ; the idea that all knowledge should be codifiable by a single standard language of science ; and above all the project of rational reconstruction, in which ordinary-language concepts were gradually to be replaced by more precise equivalents in that standard language.

Buzan says the idea was inspired by Alfred Korzybski's general semantics as popularized in science fiction novels, such as those of Robert A. Heinlein and A. E.

The idea of magic in Mage is broadly inclusive of diverse ideas about mystical practices as well as other belief systems, such as science and religion, so that most mages do not resemble typical fantasy wizards.

Voltaire and François Quesnay wrote favourably of the idea, with Voltaire claiming that the Chinese had " perfected moral science " and Quesnay advocating an economic and political system modeled after that of the Chinese.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

This idea was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1942 story Waldo.

It is in contrast to his idea of normal science.

" ( p. 12 ) Kuhn's idea was itself revolutionary in its time, as it caused a major change in the way that academics talk about science.

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

While many of the root meanings for the idea of a " general systems theory " might have been lost in the translation and many were led to believe that the systems theorists had articulated nothing but a pseudoscience, systems theory became a nomenclature that early investigators used to describe the interdependence of relationships in organization by defining a new way of thinking about science and scientific paradigms.

A variety of historical, philosophical, and scientific arguments have been put forth in favor of the idea that science and religion are in conflict.

In recent years, Oxford historian Peter Harrison has further developed the idea that the Protestant Reformation had a significant and positive influence on the development of modern science.