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  2. 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.

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept). In archaeology and anthropology , prehistory is subdivided into the three-age system , this list includes the use of the three-age system as well as a number of various designation used in reference to sub-ages within the ...

  4. Absolute space and time - Wikipedia

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    Motion (also path or trajectory) is a function r : Δ → R 3 that maps a point in the interval Δ from the time axis to a position (radius vector) in R 3. The above four concepts are the "well-known" objects mentioned by Isaac Newton in his Principia: I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all. [13]

  5. Ages of Man - Wikipedia

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    Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age (2nd version) Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Silver Age Virgil Solis, The Iron Age. The Greek poet Hesiod (between 750 and 650 BC) outlined his Five Ages in his poem Works and Days (lines 109–201). His list is: Golden Age – The Golden Age is the only age that falls within the rule of Cronus. Created by ...

  6. The Five Ages of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    The Stelliferous Era, is defined as, "6 < n < 14". This is the current era, in which matter is arranged in the form of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters, and most energy is produced in stars. Stars will be the most dominant objects of the universe in this era. Massive stars use up their fuel very rapidly, in as little as a few million years.

  7. Potentiality and actuality - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, the meanings of the two words converge, and they both depend upon the idea that every thing's "thinghood" is a kind of work, or in other words a specific way of being in motion. All things that exist now, and not just potentially, are beings-at-work, and all of them have a tendency towards being-at-work in a particular way that ...

  8. Sonnet 104 - Wikipedia

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    × / × / / × × / × / For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred: (104.13) This is a metrical variation that is more commonly encountered at the beginning of the line, and there is one definite (line 10) and several potential (lines 3, 4, 9, 11, and 14) examples of initial reversals in the sonnet.

  9. Six Ages of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Six Ages, as formulated by Augustine of Hippo, are defined in De catechizandis rudibus (On the catechizing of the uninstructed), Chapter 22: . The First Age "is from the beginning of the human race, that is, from Adam, who was the first man that was made, down to Noah, who constructed the ark at the time of the flood", i.e. the Antediluvian period.