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Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans , with a wingspan measuring up to 24 cm (9.4 in) [ 1 ] and a wing surface area of about 160 cm 2 (≈25 in 2 ). [ 2 ]
Atlas (mythology) The Farnese Atlas, the oldest surviving depiction of the celestial spheres. Western edge of Gaia (Earth), Libya, North Africa. In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ ˈætləs /; Greek: Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Libyan god [1] and a Titan in Greek mythology condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity in Libya after the ...
Atlas statue located at Rockefeller Center. Atlas is a bronze statue in Rockefeller Center, within the International Building 's courtyard, in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is across Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick's Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens on his shoulders.
Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
Farnese Atlas (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples). The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century CE Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe.Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas, a Titan of Greek mythology who is represented in earlier Greek vase painting, and the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere ...
The Middle Atlas is completely in Morocco and is the northernmost of its three main Atlas ranges. The range lies north of the High Atlas, separated by the Moulouya and Oum Er-Rbia rivers, and south of the Rif mountains, separated by the Sebou River. To the west are the main coastal plains of Morocco with many of the major cities and, to the ...
C. libani subsp. atlantica (Endl.) Batt. & Trab. Cedrus atlantica, the Atlas cedar, is a species of tree in the pine family Pinaceae, native to the Rif and Atlas Mountains of Morocco (Middle Atlas, High Atlas), and to the Tell Atlas in Algeria. [2] A majority of the modern sources [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] treat it as a distinct species Cedrus ...
Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been ...