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Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star. Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess. Freyr, god of sunshine, among other things. Sól, goddess and personification of the sun. Teiwaz, as a reflex of *Dyeus, was probably originally god of the day-lit sky. Thor, god of lightning, thunder, weather, storms, and the sky.
This is a list of sources of light, the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum.Light sources produce photons from another energy source, such as heat, chemical reactions, or conversion of mass or a different frequency of electromagnetic energy, and include light bulbs and stars like the Sun. Reflectors (such as the moon, cat's eyes, and mirrors) do not actually produce the light that ...
Emission theory (vision) Illustration from System der visuellen Wahrnehmung beim Menschen (1687) depicting emission theory. Emission theory or extramission theory (variants: extromission) or extromissionism is the proposal that visual perception is accomplished by eye beams emitted by the eyes. This theory has been replaced by intromission ...
Optics ( Greek: Ὀπτικά) is a work on the geometry of vision written by the Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BC. The earliest surviving manuscript of Optics is in Greek and dates from the 10th century AD. The work deals almost entirely with the geometry of vision, with little reference to either the physical or psychological aspects ...
The Good (the sun) provides the very foundation on which all other truth rests. Plato uses the image of the Sun to help define the true meaning of the Good. The Good "sheds light" on knowledge so that our minds can see true reality. Without the Good, we would only be able to see with our physical eyes and not the "mind's eye".
Optical phenomena are any observable events that result from the interaction of light and matter . All optical phenomena coincide with quantum phenomena. [ 1] Common optical phenomena are often due to the interaction of light from the Sun or Moon with the atmosphere, clouds, water, dust, and other particulates.
Incandescence is the emission of electromagnetic radiation (including visible light) from a hot body as a result of its high temperature. [ 1] The term derives from the Latin verb incandescere, to glow white. [ 2] Although an object does not have to glow brightly or glow white in order to be considered incandescent.
In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was well into her seventies, Hildegard first describes each vision, whose details are often strange and enigmatic, and then interprets their theological contents in the words of the "voice of the Living Light."