Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
Quotes about topography (14 Quotes)
We have fire effects monitors out here with each unit that are studying the flame lengths and the topography and the wind - all the weather conditions. We have a list of 15 things that we wanted to pay more attention to or do differently this year.
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
It really thrusts inland. It's a very lateral country with varying topography beach, forest, jungle, mountains in the north, desert in the northeast.
Any rebuilding plan, specialists say, should take New Orleans' topography and frequent rains into account. You can bring the city back without making it any safer, ... You want to avoid that.
This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,
We couldn't experience a Katrina-like storm -- that's a matter of atmospheric physics and topography. We don't have the amount of low-lying area that we see present in the Gulf Coast.
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
With some of these tools, by the time I figured out what color blob I was looking at, it was just easier to look at a table -- I could get the information I needed faster that way. It gives you a lot of information, but it's like topography as opposed to a street map. In some cases the technology didn't help and didn't have the right type of navigation.
TOPEXPoseidon revolutionized the study of Earth's oceans, providing the first continuous, global coverage of ocean surface topography and allowing us to see important week-to-week oceanic variations. Its data made a huge difference in our understanding of the oceans and their affect on global climatic conditions.
A lot of our fires are in steep, narrow canyons, and that is not a safe place to put a big airplane like that. Because of our topography, it will probably not be used as much in California. We need something smaller and more nimble.
Learn the true topography the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.