922 research outputs found
An Egyptian surveying instrument
Full text linkRecently, the author (A.C. Sparavigna) proposed that an item found in the Kha's tomb and kept at the Egyptian Museum of Torino is a protractor, able to measure angles. Here the author shows that it is suitable for surveying the stair angle of building
Portraits of Leonardo da Vinci
Full text linkUsing an iterative method, applied to image processing, a portrait of a young man, probably a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, is restored. Merging this portrait with the self-portrait in red chalk, we can have the features of a middle-aged Leonardo. This digital portrait can be compared with the image of Plato, depicted by Raphael in the Scuola di Atene, generally considered as a portrait of Leonardo. The iterative method used for the image processing had been developed by the author on previous iterative calculations used to solve the Boltzmann equatio
Interview with Amelia Wilson
Full text linkAmelia Wilson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Indianapolis with her mother, father, and sister Emily. Amelia attended Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana where she graduated in 2018. After high school, Amelia took a gap year. Amelia works at Target. She has worked for Target since 2017 at various locations in Illinois and Indiana. Amelia began attending Columbia College Chicago in the Fall of 2019. This is also when she moved to Whiting, Indiana. Amelia is a Creative Writing major who is also minoring in marketing. Amelia is in her first year at Columbia College Chicago but is a college sophomore due to credits she earned throughout high school where her many AP classes pushed her forward a grade in college. Her hobbies include reading, writing, poetry, and music. Amelia Wilson is a published author and her poetry book The Lights are on but Nobody’s Home was published April 9th, 2019.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingquarantine/1007/thumbnail.jp
Amelia Rosselli Pincherle
No full textThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Amelia Rosselli to the children's literatur
Amelia Niederer
No full textTypescript of a sketch biography about Amelia Niederer of New Harmony, Utah, who came from Switzerland as a child and lived in various towns in Washington County, Utah. Author unknown; transcribed probably in the late 1930
Halftone of Amelia Huddleston (Barr) at 18
No full textPhotograph shows head and shoulders studio portrait drawing of author Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Proyecto: Mieke Bal y La Historia Del Arte. Una Aproximación-El arte de las ciencias. ¿para qué sirve el arte?, ¿qué es el arte? o ¿por qué no se puede hacer una clasificación adecuada de estas?(Juana Amelia Martí Hernández).
No full textMieke Bal y La Historia Del Arte. Una Aproximación-Juana Amelia Martí Hernández.
The author Juana Amelia Martí Hernández in her thesis, describes in a didactic way and with scientific methodology the work of Mieke Bal and the relationship with the History of Art. It develops an educational project that identifies it as a brave and very useful work for research with rigor and quality
Las Camelias de Amelia
Full text linkLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.) This review only analyzes the work as a unit; those so inclined can read its twenty-five short stories by themselves. Las Camelias de Amelia is a very finely crafted piece of work
Amelia\u27s Gift
Full text linkProfessor Danny Mydlack recounts the mysterious arc of his student’s creative unfolding. Amelia, a middle-aged single mom, drops out of the personal videography production class before the end and yet her final assignment is delivered, posthumously, by her adult daughters. For the author, Amelia returned him to the core principles from his student days: the vast, wide terrain that is the true realm of art-making and an embrace of the fullness rather than merely the fineness of art practice. Mydlack proposes that with teaching there is more unseen than seen, more beyond our manipulation than within it, and that pedagogical satisfaction may be partly illusory
Pilot Amelia Earhart, ca. 1930\u27s
No full textPilot Amelia Earhart, b&w mounted on cardboard. Noted American aviation pioneer and author. Her plane went missing July 1937.https://mds.marshall.edu/bliss_enslow_add/1136/thumbnail.jp
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