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Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) [1] was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. [2] [3] ...
North African, 9th century CE, planispheric astrolabe. Khalili Collection. A modern astrolabe made in 2013, in Tabriz, Iran.. An astrolabe (Ancient Greek: ἀστρολάβος astrolábos, ' star-taker '; Arabic: ٱلأَسْطُرلاب al-Asṭurlāb; Persian: ستارهیاب Setāreyāb) is an astronomical instrument dating to ancient times.
In live-action segments, a family of coatis search for food, capuchin monkeys open clams by hammering them on tree trunks, use their tails to absorb water & use citronella as an insect repellent, a cheetah unsuccessfully attempts to hunt a wildebeest calf, a female snow leopard raises her cubs while her mate's attempt to hunt ibex ends fatally ...
Noboru Ishiguro, director and staff member of the original Space Battleship Yamato series, confirmed at his Otakon panel on July 17, 2009 that a live action version of Space Battleship Yamato was in development. [6] Director Takashi Yamazaki helmed the project for a planned December 2010 release with a budget of 2.2 billion yen (US$22 million). [5]
Titan A.E. was originally intended to be a live-action film tentatively titled Planet Ice, with Art Vitello hired to direct. [6] [7] By November 1997, the project had been revamped into an animated feature, with Matt Damon joining the voice cast along with Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, Nathan Lane, Jim Breuer, Janeane Garofalo and Lena Olin.
A live-action feature film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone entered development in July 2015, with Bryan Cogman writing the script and Brigham Taylor serving as producer. In January 2018, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was announced as director. [88] The next month, it was revealed that the film would premiere exclusively on Disney+.
Keanu Reeves is eager to once again suit up in John Constantine’s signature trench coat and tie. Nearly twenty years after he first brought the DC Comics/Vertigo character to life in Francis ...
Jost Bürgi and Antonius Eisenhoit: Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial ...