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Toggle Aesop's Fables subsection. 1.1 Titles A–F. 1.2 Titles G–O. 1.3 Titles R–Z. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ...
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...
In the Latin versions of Walter of England, [5] Odo of Cheriton [6] and Heinrich Steinhöwel's Aesop, [7] for example, the word umbra is used. At that time it could mean both reflection and shadow, and it was the latter word that was preferred by William Caxton , who used Steinhöwel's as the basis of his own 1384 collection of the fables. [ 8 ]
Rosemary Wells, reviewing Aesop's Fables wrote "Pinkney's Aesop is a visual treat. These are beautiful illustrations, combining pencil, colored pencil and watercolor with a light-as-air touch. .. The book is handsomely designed, in a large format, and fine paper sets off the illustrations to their best advantage." [1]
The Rankine body, discovered by Scottish physicist and engineer William Rankine, is a feature of naval architecture involving the flow of liquid around a body/surface.. In fluid mechanics, a fluid flow pattern formed by combining a uniform stream with a source and a sink of equal strengths, with the line joining the source and sink along the stream direction, conforms to the shape of a Rankine ...
The Rankine scale is used in engineering systems where heat computations are done using degrees Fahrenheit. [3] The symbol for degrees Rankine is °R [2] (or °Ra if necessary to distinguish it from the Rømer and Réaumur scales). By analogy with the SI unit kelvin, some authors term the unit Rankine, omitting the degree symbol. [4] [5]
In addition there was an English-language version set by Bob Chilcott as the fourth in his Aesop's Fables for piano and choir (2008); [54] [55] and a purely musical interpretation for small orchestra by Matt Fernald as the first part of his musical thesis composition, performed under the title An Evening with Aesop in 2013. [56] [57]