Astrology for Maecenas

Antichthon ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
D.A. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Julian Calendar ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Limited Scope

Astronomical themes, with a rather limited scope, were a minor but recurrent element in ancient poetry, and Horace makes considerable use of them in the Odes. Most of the examples involve risings and settings as guides to the time of year, and most are within the range of the phenomena mentioned in Hesiod’s Works and Days. But in Odes 3.29.17-20, for the special interest of Maecenas, Horace breaks new ground by drawing more topical material from the Julian calendar, to remind his friend that it is now July and too hot for working in Rome: the (evening) rising of Cepheus on the 9th, the (morning) risings of Procyon on the 15th and Regulus on the 29th, and the entry of the sun into Leo on the 17th. Such an array of calendaric lore is clearly designed to appeal to Maecenas, who must have had a particular interest in astronomical phenomena.

scholarly journals Use of Flavonoids and Cinnamates, the Main Photoprotectors with Natural Origin

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alesandra R. Nunes ◽  
Ícaro G. P. Vieira ◽  
Dinalva B. Queiroz ◽  
Antonio Linkoln Alves Borges Leal ◽  
Selene Maia Morais ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ultraviolet Radiation ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Uvb Radiation ◽  
Natural Origin ◽  
Cosmetic Industry ◽  
Response To Stress ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Plant Compounds ◽  
Cellular Alterations ◽  
Uva Radiation

Many pathological problems are initiated by ultraviolet radiation (UVR), such as skin cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. The UVA (320–400 nm) and UVB (290–320 nm) wavelengths may cause effects such as photoaging, DNA damage, and a series of cellular alterations. The UVA radiation can damage the DNA, oxidize the lipids, and produce dangerous free radicals, which can cause inflammation, modify the gene expression in response to stress, and weaken the skin immune response. With a minor penetration, the UVB radiation is more harmful, being responsible for immediate damage. Ultraviolet radiation light emitted by the sun is considered necessary for the existence of life but cause radiation problems, especially in the skin. The photoprotective activities of plant extracts and isolated composts were evaluated by many reports, as well as the correlation of these compounds with the antioxidant activity. This review presents plant compounds with interest to the cosmetic industry to be used in sunscreens such as flavonoids and cinnamates.

scholarly journals The Birthday of Augustus and the Julian Calendar

1912 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rice Holmes
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Julian Calendar ◽  
Recent Edition

Suetonius says that Augustus was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of October (a. d. VIIII. Kal. Oct.), in the year when Cicero and Antonius were consuls (691 [63 B.C.]), a little before sunrise,1 and also that he was born under Capricorn.2 Mr. H. W. Garrod, in his recent edition of Manilius,3 maintains that the date which Suetonius gives belonged to the pre- Julian calendar, and corresponded with December 20 of the Julian. Remarking that, ‘ according to our present reckonings,’ the sun enters Capricorn on December 22, he adds that ‘the astronomers of Cicero's time placed the beginnings of the sign some 7 degrees in advance of our reckonings. If, therefore,’ he concludes, ‘ Augustus was born on Sept. 22 paulo ante solis exortum, Capricorn was his natal sign.’

"Red Star" Another Look at Aleksandr Bogdanov

Slavic Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
A Minor

In recent years, there has been a minor explosion of interest in Aleksandr Bogdanov and other radical Russian intellectuals of pre-Stalinist days. After being in limbo for half a century, their ideas seem almost fresh and vibrant: Set against subsequent Soviet history, their aborted visions of a socialist future seem to give a sense of what might have been. And who knows—in the Gorbachev period, as the Soviet Union sorts out its problems and policies, some of their ideas might enjoy a new lease on life. For these and other reasons, they have recently attracted special interest.Of course, in Bogdanov's case, there is much to be interested in. Born Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Malinovskii in 1873, Bogdanov trained as a physician in Moscow and Khar'kov, worked briefly as a psychiatrist, and published widely on philosophy, politics, social theory, social psychology, economics, and culture.

scholarly journals Gravity of The Sun, The Main Force Operating That Changes The Location of The Earth’s Axis of The Earth’s Mantle And, Accordingly, The Location of The Equator

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-191
Keyword(s):  
Ecliptic Plane ◽  
Earth’S Rotation ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Earth's Rotation ◽  
Earth’S Mantle ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Minor Extent

The force of gravity of the sun on the earth, when the axis of the earth is found at a specific angle towards the sun in the summer and the winter, moves the earth’s mantle, including the axis of the earth’s rotation. This force is the main thing that changes the location of the axis of the earth’s rotation on the mantle of the earth and, to a minor extent or not at all, causes a change in the angle of the earth’s rotation in relation to the sun, and to the earth’s ecliptic plane.

scholarly journals Development of Multi-tasking, Multi-powered Machine for Agriculture Purpose

2021 ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
Kadole Pavan Prabhakar ◽  
Bharath Raj H K ◽  
D Yogeshwar Naidu ◽  
G Tharun Sai ◽  
Manjunath R
Keyword(s):  
Current Method ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Oriented Energy ◽  
Limited Scope

At present famers pay a lot of money on machines that work with them decline work and increment yield of harvests. The Multipurpose machine is accustomed to planting the seeds and manure shower into land and seed planting for making heaps of plant creation in rural field. It is a mechanical gadget here no electrical or other force source is not needed. The expense of this machine is low and simple to work straightforward in development. As there is huge advancement in the field of designing the current situation makes us to discover answer for serious issues looked by the farming field. The agrarian business is behind elective reciprocal ventures in exploitation robots because of the sort of occupations worried in agribusiness are no and burrow. The fundamental target of this task is to improve the current method of cultivating by presenting multipurpose gear. The greater part of the Farmers in India is affordable frail because of which they cannot buy work vehicles and other expensive hardware's subsequently they utilize conventional strategy for cultivating. This will not fulfill need of energy necessity of the cultivating when contrasted with different nations on the planet. So, work has been completed to plan and manufacture a multipurpose agribusiness vehicle, to perform rural tasks like furrowing, seed planting and showering of pesticides or water utilizing the sun-oriented energy. Likewise in the place of human and animal endeavors can be supplanted by this component of machine which will be reasonable for limited scope rancher from efficient and exertion perspective. So, we are fostering this gear which will fulfill this need and to tackle work issues.

The Phoenix in Rabbinic Literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Niehoff
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Symbolic Approach ◽  
Foreign Ideas ◽  
The Phoenix

Contact between cultures is a complex phenomenon that often involves accepting foreign ideas until these become new ways of self-expression. The case of the phoenix is of special interest, in this respect, because in antiquity it was associated with the sun temple at Heliopolis and miraculous forms of rebirth. The phoenix motif also appears in a variety of early Jewish and Christian writings, thus allowing for a comparative appreciation of its rabbinic reception. In light of these other intercultural encounters, it becomes clear that the rabbis were familiar with the details of the Hellenistic phoenix myths, and not only adapted the story to their own values but even enhanced its mythological dimension. In this way, the rabbis continued the Hellenistic practice of reactivating an ancient Egyptian myth. In contrast to the symbolic approach of early Christianity, the rabbis characteristically chose to accommodate the phoenix on a literal level, interpreting it mythopoeically, that is, by creating myth. Their interpretation of the phoenix moreover illuminates important, yet hitherto unnoticed aspects of rabbinic mythology.

scholarly journals Orientations of dolmens in Western Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S260) ◽  
pp. 116-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hoskin
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Time Of Year

AbstractThe communal tombs (‘dolmens’) constructed through Europe and the Mediterranean region in the late Neolithic nearly always had an entrance to permit the introduction of further bodies, and hence an orientation. Extensive fieldwork shows that the builders always felt constrained to observe a custom of orientation, and in most of Western Europe the custom may well have been to face the rising Sun at some time of year, or the Sun after it had risen. But at Fontvieille near Arles the local custom was quite different, with tombs facing sunset or the Sun when descending. In southwest France and neighbouring parts of Cataluña the two customs are in conflict.

Legal Aspects of Podiatric Pain Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Meyr ◽  
John S. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Minor Component ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
A Minor ◽  
State Medical Boards ◽  
Limited Scope

The topic of pain management remains a minor component of the formal education and training of residents and physicians in the United States. Misguided attitudes concerning acute and chronic pain management, in addition to reservations about the legal aspects of pain management, often translate into a “fear of the unknown” when it comes to narcotic prescription. The intentionally limited scope of this review is to promote an understanding of the laws regulating pain management practices in the United States and to provide recommendations for appropriate pain management assessment and documentation based on the Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain established by the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 100(6): 511–517, 2010)

A CONSIDERATION OF RADIO STAR SCINTILLATIONS AS CAUSED BY INTERSTELLAR PARTICLES ENTERING THE IONOSPHERE: PART II. THE ACCRETION OF INTERSTELLAR PARTICLES AS A CAUSE OF RADIO STAR SCINTILLATIONS

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 522-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Harrower
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Radial Distance ◽  
Interstellar Space ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Collision Region ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Vector Addition ◽  
Accretion Process ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
Distinct Features

A previously reported analysis of measurements of radio star scintillations, which showed daily variations dependent on time of year, is here interpreted to be the result of the accretion of interstellar particles by the Sun's gravitational field. After a brief general discussion of the accretion process, the measurements are examined in an attempt to provide an explanation on that basis. Five distinct features exhibited by the scintillation data are interpreted as resulting from particles arriving at the Earth as follows: directly from interstellar space, from a collision region behind the Sun (both directly and after having crossed the Earth's orbit), and from the collision region by a process of accretion in the gravitational field of the Earth. The velocities of certain of these particles are derived by simple applications of vector addition employing the known velocity of the Earth. The collision region is calculated to be located a radial distance of 200 million miles from the Sun.

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