scholarly journals An Examination of the Images of the Sun and the Moon in the Visoki Dečani Monastery in Kosovo

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 301-319
Author(s):  
Dragana Van de moortel-Ilić
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Cosmological Context ◽  
Popular View ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Professional Photographer ◽  
Personal Visit

This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in the Visoki Dečani monastery in Kosovo, particularly the tear-shaped paintings with human figures inside located on the left and right side of The Crucifixion of Christ fresco. The aim of this research is to put these images into a cultural and contemporary cosmological context. The images in the fresco that contain human figures have been the subject of controversy in the second part of the last century. A highly speculative popular view was put forward, that the images portrayed extraterrestrials in UFOs. Yet these images have been mostly ignored in academic circles. In this research the images from The Crucifixion fresco were compared with similar frescoes from other Serbian medieval churches and with the philosophical thought of the time. The methodology used was, first, a personal visit and observation of the images, including photos taken by a professional photographer. A comparison of those findings was then made with what had been written about those images in the academic literature. The conclusion is that they present personifications of the Sun and the Moon which could be explained by the synergy of Hellenistic and Christian thought.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES THROUGH JIGSAW LEARNING MODEL AT GRADE VI SD NEGERI 066050 MEDAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1211
Author(s):  
Mangara Halomoan Siagian ◽  
Ester Julinda Simarmata ◽  
Reflina Sinaga ◽  
Patri Janson Silaban
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

The learning model refers to a learning that encourages students to be active and help each other in mastering the subject. This study aimed to improve students’ learning outcomes at grade VI SD Negeri 066050 Medan Denai for the academic year 2020/2021. This research was Classroom Action Research. The results of the study revealed that for the pretest,6 students (23.07%) reached the target score with an average score of 63.45. In cycle I, there were 11 students (42.30%) who reached the target, with an average of 67.94%. In cycle II, there were 21 students (84.61%) who reached the target with an average of 82.56%. The learning implementation was categorized as good. This was seen from the results of observations of teachers’ activities in cycle I for 64% and in cycle II it increased to 82%. Then, the implementation of learning was good. This was seen from the results of students’ observation activities in cycle I for 60% and in cycle II it increased to 88%. Thus, the results of the study showed an increase in students’ learning outcomes on the theme of Bumiku, the sub-themes of Earth, the Sun and the Moon of learning 1 and learning 2 at grade VI SD for the academic year 2020/2021 . In short, implementing Jigsaw learning model improved students’ learning outcomes.

scholarly journals XLIX. Extract of a letter from Mr. John Winthrop, Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge, New England, to James Short, A.M. F. R. S

1764 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 277-278
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Equation Of Time

Sir, I am greatly obliged to you for your candid and judicious remarks on my observation of Venus on the Sun, which I received from my much-esteemed friend Dr. Franklin. I wrote to the Dr. pretty largely on the subject, which I desired him to communicated to you: but when I had the pleasure of a visit from him last summer, he could not recollect whether he had done it or not. I therefore beg leave now to trouble you with the substance of it. Your remarks turned on two points, the longitude of the place of the observation, and the equation of time when found by equal altitudes. As to the first, I was so different of of the observation on the Moon, that I chose to keep to the longitude of St. John's, as set down by Sir Jonas Moore, who makes it 52° 50' west of Greenwich. Though I did not think it needful to mention this doubt in the pamphlet, which was published soon after I got home, to gratify the curiosity of my countrymen, yet I expressed it fully in a written account of the observation, drawn up in a different form, and sent to the late Dr. Bradley, but which I believe never reached his hands.

scholarly journals XXIX.—On the Red Prominences seen during Total Eclipses of the Sun. Part I

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-459
Author(s):  
William Swan
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Total Eclipse ◽  
Total Phase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Solar Eclipses

The red prominences seen during total solar eclipses, are conspicuous rose-coloured objects which appear round the dark edge of the moon, as soon as the last rays of the sun have disappeared. In preparing my account of the total eclipse of the 28th July 1851, it was at first my intention to have stated some hypothetical views which I had formed regarding those remarkable objects, and other appearances I had observed during the total phase of the eclipse. I found, however, that the mere description of phenomena extended to so great a length, as to render such a course inexpedient; and I have since delayed resuming the subject, in order that by comparing a number of other observations with my own, I might be enabled, either to confirm or to modify my views.

scholarly journals Functioning of space objects in the Crimeantatar language

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
L.S. Absemieva
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Space Objects ◽  
Young Branch ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Crimean Tatar

The subject of the analysis in the article are the words related to the names of space objects in the Crimean Tatar language. Cosmodome and astronomy are onomastic space, providing a unique layer of vocabulary of the Crimean Tatar language. Comanime ‒ name universe, the moon, the sun and other cosmic objects, research is called cosmania. Names of space objects are often found in the Crimean Tatar folklore, folk songs, poetry. The young branch of onomastics of the Crimean Tatar language is practically not studied. This article investigates and groups space objects, which are extracted by the method of continuous sampling from folklore samples, poetry of EshrefShemya-zade. The study of kosminkov and astronomov necessary, as they provide invaluable historical, cultural, ethnographic material.

Moonshine on Stonehenge

Antiquity ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 40 (159) ◽  
pp. 212-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. C. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Celestial Sphere ◽  
Academic Controversy

The astronomical significance of Stone- henge has been the subject of intermittent debate and speculation ever since 1740, when Stukeley [I] first observed that the axis of the sarsen structure and of the Avenue pointed at least approximately to the sunrise at the summer solstice. Apart from Sir Norman Lockyer [z], however, few professional astronomers concerned themselves with this question, until the appearance in,Nature of the two articles by Gerald S. Hawkins, Professor of Astronomy at Boston University, in 1963 and 1964 [3]. The first of these claimed the discovery of a number of additional alignments of astronomical significance, marked by pairs of stones and other features of the site; and the second suggested that the Aubrey Holes had been used as a neolithic 'computer' for the prediction of movements of the moon and of eclipses. Subsequently these theories received much wider publicity, in Britain as well as in the United States, through a CBS television programme, The Mystery of Stonehenge, which provided a superb example of partiality and tendentiousness in the presentation of an academic controversy.Professor Hawkins has now elaborated his ideas in a book whose title, Stonehenge Decoded, leaves no doubt of his confidence in the rightness of his conclusions-a confidence explicity echoed in his text. 'There can be no doubt that Stonehenge was an observatory; the impartial mathematics of probability and the celestial sphere are on my side' (p. vii). 'I think I have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the monument was deliberately, accurately, skilfully oriented to the sun and the moon' (pp. 146-7). 'I think I have put forward the best theory to account for the otherwise unexplained holes' (p. 147). 'I think there is little else in these areas that can be discovered at Stonehenge'(p. 147).

scholarly journals XI. Essay towards a first approximation to a map of cotidal lines

1833 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 147-236 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Lunar Tide ◽  
Universal Gravitation ◽  
Newtonian Theory ◽  
First Approximation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
General Explanation ◽  
Different Parts

Ever since the time of Newton, his explanation of the general phenomena of the tides by means of the action of the moon and the sun has been assented to by all philosophers who have given their attention to the subject. But even up to the present day this general explanation has not been pursued into its results in detail, so as to show its bearing on the special phenomena of particular places,—to connect the actual tides of all the different parts of the world,—and to account for their varieties and seeming anomalies. With regard to this alone, of all the consequences of the law of universal gravitation, the task of bringing the developed theory into comparison with multiplied and extensive observations is still incomplete; we might almost say, is still to be begun. Daniel Bernoulli, in his Prize Dissertation of 1740, deduced from the Newtonian theory certain methods for the construction of tide tables, which agree with the methods still commonly used. More recently Laplace turned his attention to this subject; and by treating the tides as a problem of the oscillations rather than of the equilibrium of fluids, undoubtedly introduced the correct view of the real operation of the forces; but it does not appear that in this way he has obtained any consequences to which Newton’s mode of considering the subject did not lead with equal certainty and greater simplicity; moreover by confounding, in the course of his calculations, the quantities which he designates by λ and λ', the epochs of the solar and lunar tide (Méc. Cél. vol. ii. p. 232. 291.), he has thrown an obscurity on the most important differences of the tides of different places, as Mr. Lubbock has pointed out.

scholarly journals Discoveries in the Solar System

1997 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Suzanne Débarbat
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stellar Parallax

The subject of IAU Colloquium 165 and the year 1996, which is the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the planet Neptune, give the opportunity to recall facts which have led to the discovery of three new major planets in the Solar System.Five planets plus the Earth, the Sun and the Moon were the only permanent objects known in the Solar System from Antiquity up to the 17th century when Galileo (1564–1642) discovered four new bodies around Jupiter.The question of the dimensions of the Solar System and the distances of the stars soon became one of the main problems. From the parallax of Mars J.-D. Cassini (1625–1712) deduced the diameter of the Earth’s orbit and the astronomers attempted to determine the stellar parallax at six-month intervals at the Paris and Greenwich Observatories, leading Bradley (1693–1762) to the discoveries of aberration in 1726, and nutation in 1745.

Handwriting Analysis and Personality Assessment

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Greasley
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Handwriting Analysis ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Personnel Recruitment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Better Than

It has been estimated that graphology is used by over 80% of European companies as part of their personnel recruitment process. And yet, after over three decades of research into the validity of graphology as a means of assessing personality, we are left with a legacy of equivocal results. For every experiment that has provided evidence to show that graphologists are able to identify personality traits from features of handwriting, there are just as many to show that, under rigorously controlled conditions, graphologists perform no better than chance expectations. In light of this confusion, this paper takes a different approach to the subject by focusing on the rationale and modus operandi of graphology. When we take a closer look at the academic literature, we note that there is no discussion of the actual rules by which graphologists make their assessments of personality from handwriting samples. Examination of these rules reveals a practice founded upon analogy, symbolism, and metaphor in the absence of empirical studies that have established the associations between particular features of handwriting and personality traits proposed by graphologists. These rules guide both popular graphology and that practiced by professional graphologists in personnel selection.

Modelling Lunar Extremes

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fisher ◽  
Lionel Sims
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Celestial Mechanics ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Landscape Context ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon

Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Thom’s usage of the term provides a long-overdue opportunity for the discipline to correct this slippage. Gough (2013), in keeping with Thom (1971), claims that certain standing stones and short stone rows point to distant horizon features which allow high-precision alignments on the risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon dating from about 1700 BC. To assist archaeoastronomy in breaking out of its interpretive rut and from “going round in circles” (Ruggles 2011), this paper evaluates the validity of this claim. Through computer modelling, the celestial mechanics of horizon alignments are here explored in their landscape context with a view to testing the very possibility of high-precision alignments to the lunar extremes. It is found that, due to the motion of the Moon on the horizon, only low-precision alignments are feasible, which would seem to indicate that the properties of lunar standstills could not have included high-precision markers for prehistoric megalith builders.

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