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Seeing
Seeing may refer to: * Visual perception * Astronomical seeing, the blurring effects of air turbulence in the atmosphere * In the occult seeing refers to "the sight" or the ability to see auras or to predict the future; see fortune-telling * ''Seeing'' (novel), the English title of José Saramago's 2004 novel ''Ensaio sobre a Lucidez'' * "Seeing", a song on the Moby Grape album '' Moby Grape '69'' * ''Seeing'' (composition), 1998 piano concerto by Christopher Rouse See also * See (other) * '' Seeing I'' (novel) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeing (novel)
''Seeing'' ( pt, Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. ''Essay on Lucidity'') is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. The book was published in Portuguese in 2004 and then in English in 2006. ''Seeing'' is the sequel to one of Saramago's most famous works, ''Blindness''. Plot summary ''Seeing'' is set in the same unnamed country featured in ''Blindness.'' The story begins with a parliamentary election, in which the majority (83%) of the populace cast blank ballots. The first half of the story focuses on the struggles of the government and its various nameless members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters. Some of the characters from ''Blindness'' appear in the second half of the novel, including 'the doctor' and 'the doctor's wife', and the 'dog of tears' now with the name, Constant. Reception ''Seeing'' received generally positive reviews. Writing for ''The Guardian,'' Ursula K. Le Guin gave Saram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomical Seeing
In astronomy, seeing is the degradation of the image of an astronomical object due to turbulence in the atmosphere of Earth that may become visible as blurring, twinkling or variable distortion. The origin of this effect are rapidly changing variations of the optical refractive index along the light path of the object. Seeing is a major limitation to the angular resolution in astronomical observations with telescopes that would otherwise be limited through diffraction by the size of the telescope aperture. Today, many large scientific ground-based optical telescopes include adaptive optics to overcome seeing. The strength of seeing is often characterized by the angular diameter of the long-exposure image of a star (''seeing disk'') or by the Fried parameter ''r''0. The diameter of the seeing disk is the full width at half maximum of its optical intensity. An exposure time of several tens of milliseconds can be considered ''long'' in this context. The Fried parameter describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeing (composition)
''Seeing'' is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for the pianist Emanuel Ax, with financial contributions from philanthropists Lillian and Maurice Barbash. It was premiered at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City May 6, 1999, with Leonard Slatkin conducting Emanuel Ax and the New York Philharmonic. The piece is dedicated to Emanuel Ax. Rouse, Christopher (1998)Seeing: Program Note by the Composer Retrieved July 10, 2015. Composition The piece has a duration of roughly 28 minutes and is composed in four connected sections, similar to the form of a traditional concerto. Style and influences The composition freely quotes passages from Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto. Rouse wrote of this in the score program notes: The title of the piece comes from the song "Seeing" in the Moby Grape album ''Moby Grape '69''. Rouse saw the album while browsing through his collection of rock musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Grape '69
''Moby Grape '69'' is the third album by the psychedelic rock band Moby Grape, released on January 30, 1969. It is the first album after the departure of co-founder Skip Spence. Spence nonetheless is heard on one song, "Seeing", presumably from the ''Wow/Grape Jam'' sessions, and positioned as the final song on ''Moby Grape '69''. As Peter Lewis describes the album, "We made ''Moby Grape '69'', in an attempt to rebound from the ''Wow'' album, which was over-produced. And it's a cool album. Although we could have rehearsed it a little more, we still believed in it. But I think we were waiting for Skippy to come back, and he never did." The album peaked at a disappointing number 113 on the Billboard chart. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy as an early endeavor into country rock.Poco's first album, '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'', was released in May 1969, while the Eagles' self-titled first album was released in June 1972. ''Moby Grape '69'' was also being recorded during similar periods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
See (other)
See or SEE may refer to: * Sight - seeing Arts, entertainment, and media * Music: ** ''See'' (album), studio album by rock band The Rascals *** "See", song by The Rascals, on the album ''See'' ** "See" (Tycho song), song by Tycho * Television ** "See" (''Preacher''), episode of television series ''Preacher'' ** ''See'' (TV series), series on Apple TV+ * ''See Magazine'', alternative weekly newspaper in Edmonton, 1992 to 2011 Education * School of Experiential Education, Toronto alternative school * Stanford Engineering Everywhere, Stanford University online-course series * Student Excellence Expo * Secondary Education Examination (Nepal) Manual language schemata * Seeing Essential English (SEE1) * Signing Exact English (SEE2) Organisations * Society for Environment and Education * Special Enrollment Examination, U.S. Internal Revenue Service series * Standard error of the equation, statistical method Religion * Episcopal see, domain of a bishop * Holy See, central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment. This is different from visual acuity, which refers to how clearly a person sees (for example "20/20 vision"). A person can have problems with visual perceptual processing even if they have 20/20 vision. The resulting perception is also known as vision, sight, or eyesight (adjectives ''visual'', ''optical'', and ''ocular'', respectively). The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system, and are the focus of much research in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and molecular biology, collectively referred to as vision science. Visual system In humans and a number of other mammals, light enters the eye through the cornea and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortune-telling
Fortune telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. Melton, J. Gordon. (2008). ''The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena''. Visible Ink Press. pp. 115-116. The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation. Historically, Pliny the Elder describes use of the crystal ball in the 1st century CE by soothsayers (''"crystallum orbis"'', later written in Medieval Latin by scribes as ''orbuculum''). Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
