As the sphere turns, two tracking devices fire ultrasound beams at it from below and measure the Doppler shift of the echoes to determine the speed and direction of its spin.
Not exact matches
The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to
turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the
spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic
as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.
The idea is to leave
as few non-individual players
as possible in the private
sphere, and to
turn those few that are left into agents of the government.»
Prior to Galileo science thought of Man
as the mathematical and moral centre of a World composed of
spheres turning statically upon themselves.
The Yahwist
turned the spotlight not on the sanctuary, but on the human scene of historical event,
as the
sphere in which the will of the God of Israel became manifest.
One thing not everybody seems to know: if you get the
spheres around the outline of a formation, the entire formation will transform into rings instantly, including both the outer
spheres that had
turned red after you collected them
as well
as the internal ones you hadn't collected yet.
While well - meaning progressive educators might be willing to criticize the manner in which humans are
turned into dead objects that Marxists refer to
as fetishized commodities, they are often loathe to consider the fact that within capitalist society, all value originates in the
sphere of production and that one of the primary roles of schools is to serve
as agents or functionaries of capital.
She in
turn, was caught by his ability to appear standing outside the
sphere just shy of what she was accustomed to finding,... the familiarity of what she was bred to understand and what she originally felt she would accept
as her way of living.
November 19, 2010 — February 20, 2011 Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies
as «working reverie,» each artist in this exhibition
turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening
spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.
Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies
as «working reverie,» each artist in The Nameless Hour
turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening
spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.
They defy easy description by design, such
as the geometric sculpture of a cube
turning into a
sphere that is both yet neither, or a complex chain of linked metal rings that never tangles and can also be worn
as jewelry.
Since the 1970s, the scarcity of his work and his reputation
as a theologian and aesthete has
turned this avant - garde artist into a semi-mythical figure; an artist with a formidable reputation but one whose work has rarely been seen in the public
sphere.
Earth is a dynamic
sphere and, it
turns out, so is the planet's climate, otherwise known
as the long - term trend of global weather conditions.
Strathy's comments were intended
as a broader indictment of the crushing costs imposed upon litigants in an increasingly process - laden system but if the courts are ever to get a handle on spiralling fees in the criminal law
sphere, attention must be
turned to the daily grind of the local set - date docket.