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241 (English translation) ISBN. 0-8070-6439-4 (English edition) The Poetics of Space ( French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The book is considered an important work about art. Commentators have compared Bachelard's views to those of the philosopher Martin Heidegger .
Reichle & De-Massari Holding AG (R&M), is a globally active corporate group in the information and communication technology sector, based in Wetzikon, Switzerland.The family company develops and produces connecting technology for communications networks, such as fiber-optic distributors, patch panels and computer connection modules, as well as cables, housings, and software.
Anti-de Sitter space. Three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space is like a stack of hyperbolic disks, each one representing the state of the universe at a given time. The resulting spacetime looks like a solid cylinder. In mathematics and physics, n -dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS n) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant ...
Cité de l'espace. / 43.5869611°N 1.49316389°E / 43.5869611; 1.49316389. The Cité de l'espace ( French for Space City) is a scientific discovery centre in France focused on spaceflight. It was opened in June 1997, and is located on the eastern outskirts of Toulouse. It was carried out on the initiative of the Town Hall of Toulouse ...
Western Sahara [a] is a disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa. About 20% of the territory is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 80% is occupied [3] [4] and administered by neighboring Morocco. It has a surface area of 266,000 square kilometres (103,000 sq mi).
The Observatoire de l’Espace (Space Observatory) is a cultural laboratory created in 2000 by CNES (the French Space Agency) to promote a new vision of outer space, different from that of popular science. Space has a major influence on people's perceptions and imagination.
Space colonization is the use of outer space for colonization, such as permanent habitation, exploitation or territorial claims. Extraterrestrial colonization is its broader form, including the use of celestial bodies, other than Earth, for colonization. The inhabitation and territorial use of extraterrestrial space has been proposed, for ...
Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage thereafter bearing his name and achieved the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific.