lobefin
lobefin common name for any of a group of lunged, fleshy-finned, bony fishes , also called crossopterygians, that were dominant in the Devonian period and gave rise to amphibians . They had heavy, ungainly bodies and stumpy paired fins, the precursors of the limbs of four-footed animals. Known from their fossils, the lobefins were thought to be extinct until 1938, when a live coelacanth was caught in deep water off S Africa. Since then other specimens have been discovered in the Madagascar area. The coelacanths are a marine branch of the lobefins. The coelacanth discovered in 1938, Latimeria chalumne, is a brown to steel-blue fish 5 ft (150 cm) long, with circular, overlapping scales, a laterally flattened three-lobed tail, a spiny dorsal fin, and a vestigial lung. The fish give birth to live young. The coelacanth is the nearest living fish relative of the amphibians. In 1998 a closely related coelacanth, L. menadoensis, was discovered in Indonesia. Lobefins are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Crossopterygii. See lungfish .
Bibliography: See S. Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time (2000).
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Browser. (View).(web sites for architecture)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...ferocious web-usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, would approve. Ictinus at last - and Callicrates too Some sites we have looked at...from prehistory to now. Back in January 2000 we tried the Ictinus test and failed to find any reference to him or to Greek architecture...
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Browser: Sutherland Lyall nimbly swings through the forests of architectural cyberspace. (View).
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...as good as the Shorter Oxford Dictionary offers. Before those PADDI librarians write in again, I did try Callicrates and Ictinus. To no effect. There were lots and lots of words based on icon but nothing approaching the Greeks. Not a word about 'metope...
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Letters.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...mighty Libeskind. I cannot believe that anyone can understand that message unless they have read the script beforehand. Did Ictinus and Callicrates or Palladio require people to read a textbook before visiting their work? Can it be that both these buildings...
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Sliced toast.(Browser)(Adrian Welch architecutral websites)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 7/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...interiors, dining, unbuilt design, links and a search page. No, since you were going to ask, there's no Callicrates or Ictinus which is just as well since this is about contemporary Edinburgh architecture and not the old stuff. There are a few slow...
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Beauty secrets of the Parthenon.
Magazine article from: World and I; 1/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...did not think so--my beauty is classic, my artistry classless. Those in charge of my upbringing (the famous Pheidias, Ictinus and Callicrates) took great pains that I grew properly. Even now, I look gorgeously straight and symmetrical only because...
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Athenian glory.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Athens was especially sacred to Athena, the patron of Athens and the goddess of wisdom and war. Together with the architects Ictinus and Callicrates, Phidias created a vision of the Acropolis as a religious and cultural center. Thematically and visually...
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`ARCHITECTURE FOR DUMMIES' IS AN INTELLIGENT READ.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/15/2002; 516 words
; ...Dummies'' (John Wiley & Sons; 308 pages; $21.99) from one of the world's first known architects, a Greek called Ictinus who designed the Parthenon in the mid-400s B.C., to the modern Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, by America's Frank...
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Ancient treasure - Athens rises above the crowd - and smog - as a center of history and culture.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 9/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Doric-style building, made entirely of white pentelic marble and surrounded by freestanding columns. It was designed by Ictinus and Callicrates, with sculptures by Phidias. There is a continuous frieze band inside the colonnade depicting the entire...
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The Digital Imaging Project.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 1/1/2000; 632 words
; ...This seems to he a lively site which is acquiring new material rapidly, but it has heavy biases. For instance a query about Ictinus raised no responses: in fact there are as yet no Greek buildings at all. The great majority of buildings are from the US...
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COMPUTING ART.(philosophical questions about nature of art raised by influence of digital technology)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...narrowing. The two disciplines have always been fraternal philosophies, formalized by ancient Greeks such as Erathosthenes and Ictinus long ago. Today, computer graphics and other technology are reuniting these philosophies by providing scientific ways to...
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Ictinus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ictinus Ictinus (active second half of 5th century B.C.) was a Greek architect and...Telesterion, the great hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis. Of what city Ictinus was a citizen is not known, but the importance of the building projects...
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Callicrates
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Callicrates. C5 bc Athenian architect, responsible with Ictinus for the Greek Doric temple known as the Parthenon (447–436), and on his own (probably) for the small Ionic temple...
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Pericles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...develop the splendor of Athens. He became a great patron of the arts and encouraged drama and music. Under his direction Ictinus and Callicrates, Phidias and others produced such monuments as the Parthenon and the Propylaea on the Acropolis. Pericles...
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Parthenon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...acropolis at Athens. Built under Pericles between 447 BC and 432 BC, it is the culminating masterpiece of Greek architecture. Ictinus and Callicrates were the architects and Phidias supervised the sculpture. The temple is peripteral, with eight Doric columns...
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Phigalia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Greeks. The frieze, dating from c.420 BC, was originally on the walls of a temple of Apollo at Bassae, near Phigalia. Since 1814 it has been in the British Museum. The geographer Pausanias names Ictinus as the architect of the temple.
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