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The tree of life ( Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים, romanized : ʿēṣ ḥayyim or no: אִילָן, romanized : ʾilān, lit. 'tree') is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it. [ 1] It is usually referred to as the "kabbalistic tree of life" to distinguish it from the tree of life that ...
Dimensions. 65 cm × 54 cm (26 in × 21 in) Location. Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain. Galatea of the Spheres is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1952. It depicts Gala Dalí, Salvador Dalí's wife and muse, as pieced together through a series of spheres arranged in a continuous array. The name Galatea refers to a sea nymph of ...
The musica universalis (literally universal music ), also called music of the spheres or harmony of the spheres, is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies —the Sun, Moon, and planets —as a form of music. The theory, originating in ancient Greece, was a tenet of Pythagoreanism, and was later ...
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to ...
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891) Typical North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s) A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of ...
Earth is rounded into an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light-minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution.
Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which ...
The search for alien life comes in many flavors, from hunting for Earth-like planets, to looking for stars with Sun-like characteristics, to tuning into some kind of alien transmission.