This art is geometry "the measuring of Earth. ... In thirteen books he collected The Elements of geometry, starting from the most basic concepts, "a point is that which has no part- and "a line is breadthless length-. ... Focusing our mind on the metaphysical plane where the triangle exists and by following Euclid's reasoning we find that we too can have access to that realm where we'll see true images, rather than likenesses of them. ... The fact that they can only be appreciated outside the material world, in a realm that's only accessible to men and women who trust the p...

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He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and made his greatest contributions in geometry (Archimedes of Syracuse. ... Some of the books he has written are as follows: On plane equilibriums, Quadrature of the parabola, On the sphere and cylinder, On spirals, On conoids and spheroids, On floating bodies, Measurement of a circle, and The Sand Reckoner. ... On plane equilibriums, shows the fundamentals of mechanics using geometry. In this book are theorems he discovered for the center of gravity of plane figures. ... Archimedes considered these to be amusements in geomet...

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His interest in mathematics is said to have began from when he observed a solar eclipse on October 18, 320 and then since has focused his work on geometry. ... The purpose of the volumes were to revive geometry and restore it to a level of significance, usually by providing further explanations or supplements to the works of previous geometers. ... Book III distinguishes plane, solid and linear problems and a summary of finding two mean proportionals (a:x=x:y=a:y). ... He writes well, shows great clarity of thought and the Mathematical Collection is a work of very great historical importance i...

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The plane gains lift by moving through the air with the initial velocity that is created by throwing the plane. ... For low inclinations, simple flow conditions and simple geometries, the coefficient can be determined mathematically but for the most part it has to be determined experimentally. ... Drag is generated by every part of the plane. ... The drag also depends upon the shape of the plane. ... The weight depends on the mass of the plane as a whole. ...

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There isn't a main figure in this painting, but a heap of important figures altogether in different planes in the painting. ... Another good example of the weight balance in this painting is in the first plane at the very front, there are 3 people and a dog sitting by the shadow on the grass and in the opposite place there's a woman standing up, leaving enough space in between them to not saturate the plane. Seurat especially modifies the figures represented in this painting in order to create more curved, undulating rhythms in order to diminish the "squareness" and geom...

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In his Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640), Nicholas Poussin used linear perspective to demonstrate his knowledge of geometry. ... To this end he flattened planes and eliminated atmospheric perspective, creating recession by pure color alone, working with small patches or modules of color and locking together various areas of the canvas. ...

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He used torque and rhythm to twist the various planes of his pieces through space. ... Throughout the 1980's until the present, Mason has twisted geometry around in his series of Torque vessels. ...

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The design of the frame, deals mainly with geometry. ... A parallelogram is a four sided plane figure with opposite sides parallel. ... That is a plane figure having four sides and four angles (Encarta 97 Encyclopedia). ... The design of the frame, deals with geometry. ...

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SATURN Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the Sun. Saturn was one of the most beautiful sites know to the Ancients. All Gas Giant planets that we know of have rings, but the rings on Saturn are more elaborate than any of the other planets. ...

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He did it without the aid of a theory and without even using abstract geometry. ... Alberti, the first theoretician to describe the process of perspective, called Brunelleschi's work "door level", but today it is known as "picture plane", or the "window". ...

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Plato was a believer in the "quadrivium" which is about four math fields of study in the liberal arts, which begins with arithmetic, then to plane geometry, solid geometry, and lastly astronomy and harmonics. ...

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This was achieved by analyzing the geometry of the experiment, identifying the critical parameters affecting the results based on the simple beam bending equation, by repeating the measurements and by comparing the experimental data with the theoretical predictions. ... Provided the applied load acts in the XY plane and deflection occurs in this same plane, the elastic modulus can be derived from the equation. ...

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Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Munich as a non-practicing Jew. He was born with a very large head that was oddly shaped. Albert took much longer to learn to talk than other children, and his parents feared...

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There he received a good understanding of basic mathematics, studying differential and integral calculus, analytic geometry, and the foundations of analysis. ... In the summer of 1854, Dedekind qualified as a university lecturer and began lecturing on the mathematics of probability as well as on geometry with parallel treatment of analytic and projective methods. ... Leibniz's students, the Swiss Bernoulli brothers, used calculus to solve this and other problems, such as finding the curve of quickest descent connecting two given points in a vertical plane. ...

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The combination of geometric lines, the definition of the x, y and z planes and bright white light give an impression of calculation, purity and precision: elements that are synonymous with high technology. ... The choice of green as a featured colour softens the intensity of the geometry of the floor tiles. ...

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Modern science is the practice of skepticism. Skepticism is defined as acritical attitude which systematically questions the notion that absolute knowledge and certainty are possible...in particular fields? (Skeptic's Dictionary), meaning that modern science is the understanding that current scient...

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It was also during this period that the ideas of calculus were generalized to Euclidean space and the complex plane. ... In the second book of this work Archimedes' most important result is to show how to cut a given sphere by a plane so that the ratio of the volumes of the two segments has a prescribed ratio. ...

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In this house you can see one of the strongest principles of Wrights architectural career, which is geometry and clear shapes that interlock in a dynamic harmony. ... They had a style all their own, mimicking that of a horizontal plane, with no basements or attics. ...

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IDEAL STATE AND ITS THEORY OF EDUCATION "The object of education is to turn the eye which the soul already possesses to the light. The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to t...

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Grade 7 Mathematics covers numbers and number sense; measurement; patterns and algebra; geometry and statistics and probability. ... The learning competencies in Geometry represents a point, line and plane using concrete and pictorial models; defines, identifies and names the subsets of a line; illustrates, names, identifies and defines the different kinds of angles; derives relationships of geometric figures using measurements and by inductive reasoning: supplementary angles, complementary angles, equal angles, adjacent angles, linear pairs, perpendicular lines and parallel lines; derives re...

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Early observations of Saturn were complicated by the fact that the Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings every few years as Saturn moves in its orbit, therefore a low resolution image of Saturn changes drastically. In 1659, Christiann Huygens correctly inferred the geometry of the rings. ...

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000: Conductive polymers Contents Prize motivation 1 Conductive polymers - a surprising discovery 1 What is electrical conductivity? 2 What makes a material conductive? 3 Conductive polymers - the story 4 Applications of conductive polymers 5 Synthesis and p...

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