So when textbooks, like that of Baker set out drawings of the ' Ptolemaic System ', complete with earth in the center and the seven heavenly bodies epicyclically arranged on their several deferents, we have nothing but a misleading 20th-century idea of what never existed historically.

It is not our bodies but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft.

Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.

His formula will have to be weighed, may be altered or improved, and it should be tested on additional bodies of material.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

They would sleep while the Gabriel's drive would increase the acceleration to a point which the unfrozen bodies of the personnel could not have endured.

Lacking these membranes, amphibians require water bodies for reproduction, although some species have developed various strategies for protecting or bypassing the vulnerable aquatic larval stage.

In the walkers and runners the hind limbs are not so large and the burrowers mostly have short limbs and broad bodies.

Frog larvae are known as tadpoles and typically have oval bodies and long, vertically flattened tails with fins.

Those species that breed in smaller water bodies or other specialised habitats tend to have more complex patterns of behaviour in the care of their young.

Amphibians have soft bodies and thin skins, lack claws, defensive armour or spines and seem relatively helpless.

Electric guitars, most notably the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster, have been built with alder bodies since the 1950s.

Several geological factors have played a vital role in the formation and existence of these subterranean water bodies.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

Although hemosporidians and piroplasmids have normal triplets of microtubules in their basal bodies and coccidians and gregarines have 9 singlets.

Generally speaking, most countries that follow the principles of common law have developed procedures for judicial review that limit the reviewability of decisions made by administrative law bodies.

" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."

Villeroi had given his personal attention to that wing and strengthened it with large bodies of horse and foot that ought to have been taking part in the decisive struggle south of Ramillies.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

All have three-sided bodies, spruce or fir tops, backs made of three to nine wooden sections ( usually maple ), and they are typically strung with three strings.

It has been argued that firearms residue on some deceased may have come from contact with the soldiers who themselves moved some of the bodies, or that the presence of lead on the hands of one ( James Wray ) was easily explained by the fact that his occupation involved the use of lead-based solder.

On the other hand, some other jurisdictions have sufficiently developed bodies of law so that parties have no real motivation to choose the law of a foreign jurisdiction ( for example, England and Wales, and the state of California ), but not yet so fully developed that parties with no relationship to the jurisdiction choose that law.

But the natural condition for the heavenly bodies is neither rest, nor rectilinear motion.

The speech contains the first record of her adoption of the mediaeval political theology of the sovereign's " two bodies ": the body natural and the body politic:

Thus Esperanto achieved a stability of structure and grammar similar to that which natural languages enjoy by virtue of their native speakers and established bodies of literature.

Many bodies consist of good sounding but inexpensive woods, like ash, with a " top ," or thin layer of another, more attractive wood ( such as maple with a natural " flame " pattern ) glued to the top of the basic wood.

It has been argued that without this property natural bodies of water would freeze, in some cases permanently, from the bottom up, resulting in a loss of bottom-dependent animal and plant life in fresh and sea water.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

Many natural structures, including human bodies, follow a certain handedness, but it was widely assumed that nature did not distinguish the two possibilities.

The cause for this was uncertain as there could have been natural causes, although a study by Pyatt et al proposed that the bodies may have been painted with a copper-based pigment.

Some new reservoirs for hydroelectric schemes have been given names faithful to the names for natural bodies of water-for example: the Loch Sloy scheme, and Lochs Laggan and Treig ( which form part of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme near Fort William ).

Scotland has very few natural water bodies actually called ' lakes '.

Celestial mechanics treats more broadly the orbital dynamics of systems under the influence of gravity, including spacecraft and natural astronomical bodies such as star systems, planets, moons, and comets.

Discusses new algorithms for determining the orbits of both natural and artificial celestial bodies.

* Thermal pollution, is a temperature change in natural water bodies caused by human influence, such as use of water as coolant in a power plant.

* The replacement of the Aristotelian idea that heavy bodies, by their nature, moved straight down toward their natural places ; that light bodies, by their nature, moved straight up toward their natural place ; and that ethereal bodies, by their nature, moved in unchanging circular motions with the idea that all bodies are heavy and move according to the same physical laws

All bodies naturally moved in straight lines until they reached the sphere appropriate to their elemental composition — their natural place.

However, as natural bodies aside from humans do not possess intelligence, there must, he reasons, exist a being that directs final causes at every moment.

Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which physical bodies attract each other with a force proportional to their masses.

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.

The term " international human rights law " is often used as a category of reference to describe these systems, but this can be a source of confusion as there is no separate entity as " international human rights law " but an interlocking system of non-binding conventions, international treaties, domestic law, international organisations and political bodies.

On December 23, 2011, the Spanish Government officially acknowledges for the first time to Wicca as a religion, Wicca Tradition Celtiberian register in the Register of religious bodies with the reference 2560-GS / A, being the first country for Spain Europe and the second in the world after U. S., to recognize her.

Several attempts were made to remove this from the Book of Order, and in 2011, the Presbyteries of the PC ( USA ) passed Amendment 10-A permitting congregations to ordain elders and deacons and presbyteries to ordain ministers, saying " governing bodies shall be guided by Scripture and the confessions in applying standards to individual candidates ", without reference to the fidelity / chastity provision.

When two adjacent loops would iterate the same number of times ( whether or not that number is known at compile time ), their bodies can be combined as long as they make no reference to each other's data.

The name is in reference to the " hellish " conditions on Earth at the time: the planet had just formed and was still very hot due to high volcanism, a partially molten surface and frequent collisions with other Solar System bodies.

Stated this way, compass and straightedge constructions appear to be a parlour game, rather than a serious practical problem ; but the purpose of the restriction is to ensure that constructions can be proven to be exactly correct, and is thus important to both drafting ( design by both CAD software and traditional drafting with pencil, paper, straight-edge and compass ) and the science of weights and measures, in which exact synthesis from reference bodies or materials is extremely important.

Normal serum reference ranges for ketone bodies are 0. 5 – 3. 0 mg / dL, equivalent to 0. 05 – 0. 29 mmol / L.

Forgiven by Olodumare, he was later given the responsibility of molding the physical bodies of human beings ; the making of land in this story is said to be a symbolic reference to the founding of the Yoruba kingdoms, and this is why Oduduwa is credited with

This device mechanically computes the positions of celestial bodies " with reference to the observer's position on the surface of the earth.

Nonetheless, others speculate, based on clear reference to the practice in Tacitus ' Iron Age work, Germania, that the bog bodies were criminals who were executed before being deposited in the bog rather than religious sacrifices.

", in reference to the burning of bodies after the Alamo and the mass murder of Texans at Goliad.

Airships and bodies of revolution use the volumetric coefficient of drag, in which the reference area is the square of the cube root of the airship's volume.

Airships and some bodies of revolution use the volumetric drag coefficient, in which the reference area is the square of the cube root of the airship volume.

In Mach's idea this concept of absolute motion should be substituted with a total relativism in which every motion, uniform or accelerated, has sense only in reference to other bodies ( i. e., one cannot simply say that the water is rotating, but must specify if it's rotating with respect to the vessel or to the earth ).

In this view, the apparent forces that seem to permit discrimination between relative and " absolute " motions should only be considered as an effect of the particular asymmetry that there is in our reference system between the bodies which we consider in motion, that are small ( like buckets ), and the bodies that we believe are still ( the earth and distant stars ), that are overwhelmingly bigger and heavier than the former.

Depending on the particular style of feng shui being used, an auspicious site could be determined by reference to local features such as bodies of water, stars, or a compass.

The term is usually associated with skygazing and astronomy, with reference to views of celestial bodies such as stars, the Moon, and planets that become visible on a clear night after the Sun has set.

The principal duties of the CPPCC chief are mainly advisory and conciliatory ; Li's duties focused on mitigating conflict between different sectors of society, conferring on state affairs, and providing ideas for the top bodies of PRC central government for reference.

John Stachel points out, that these letters were written in their student days, at least four years before the 1905 papers, and some of the instances in which Einstein used " our " in relation to scientific work refer to their diploma dissertations, for which they both chose the same topic ( experimental studies of heat conduction ), and that Einstein used " our " in rather general statements, while he invariably used " I " and " my " when he recounted specific ideas he was working on: " the letters to Marić show Einstein referring to his studies, his work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies over a dozen times ... as compared to one reference to our work on the problem of relative motion.

In reference to their bodies, they are normally squatting with their arms resting in different positions and are without legs.

In this case, rigid bodies and reference frames are indistinguishable and completely interchangeable.

Some of these paintings also appeared to reference early Mesopotamian / Akkadian works, with the large eyes and squarely chiseled bodies.