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...A Photo Library.jpg|thumb|Triangulation of [[Kodiak Island]] in [[Alaska]] in 1929.]] ...[[trigonometry]], rather than measuring distances to the point directly as in [[trilateration]]. The point can then be fixed as the third point of a tria ...

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...caliph but also patronized the foundation of a new observatory at Maragha in Azerbayjan at the instigation of the Persian Shi‘i polymath Nasir al-Din Tu ...mong Persian Islamic philosophers to write few quatrains on the side often in the spirit of some of the poems of Khayyam singing about the impermanence o ...

..._1642_Claude_Lorrain.jpg|thumb|''Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus'' (1642), by [[Claude Lorrain]], [[Louvre|Musée du Louvre]], [[Paris ...st wants to project. Also, light can have a symbolic component, especially in religion, where this element has often been associated with [[divinity]]. ...