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  2. Aether theories - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton suggests the existence of an aether in the Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704; 2nd ed. 1718): "Doth not this aethereal medium in passing out of water, glass, crystal, and other compact and dense bodies in empty spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the rays of light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve lines? ...

  3. Inertia - Wikipedia

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    Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics, and described by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion (also known as The Principle of Inertia). [1]

  4. Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures - Wikipedia

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    Panofsky begins his essay by identifying two features that distinguish “film art” (see : art cinema) from preceding forms of art: first, film art was the only art whose beginnings were witnessed by people alive at the time of the essay’s composition (1934); second, whereas preceding arts were formed by “an artistic urge that gave rise to the discovery and gradual perfection of a new ...

  5. Luminiferous aether - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, Robert Boyle was a proponent of an aether hypothesis. According to Boyle, the aether consists of subtle particles, one sort of which explains the absence of vacuum and the mechanical interactions between bodies, and the other sort of which explains phenomena such as magnetism (and possibly gravity) that are, otherwise, inexplicable on the basis of purely mechanical ...

  6. Understanding Media - Wikipedia

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    Film, for example, is defined as a hot medium, since in the context of a dark movie theater, the viewer is completely captivated, and one primary sense—visual—is filled in high definition. In contrast, television is a cool medium, since many other things may be going on and the viewer has to integrate all of the sounds and sights in the ...

  7. Unmoved mover - Wikipedia

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    That by which something is changed is the mover, that which is changed is the matter, and that into which it is changed is the form. [citation needed] Substance is necessarily composed of different elements. The proof for this is that there are things that are different from each other and that all things are composed of elements.

  8. A guide to the ages of the ‘Stranger Things’ cast, compared ...

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    When "Stranger Things" premiered in 2016, it hit the nostalgia spot, combining the universality of high school stories with '80s fever. The show's fourth season premiered in May 2022, and a lot ...

  9. Aristotelian physics - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelian physics is the form of natural philosophy described in the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC). In his work Physics, Aristotle intended to establish general principles of change that govern all natural bodies, both living and inanimate, celestial and terrestrial – including all motion (change with respect to place), quantitative change (change with respect to ...