luminous body
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Over the years she has created a luminous body of work, crafting art out of reflective materials such as cast resin, fiberglass, plastic and coated glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Newton supported the theory that light consists of particles or corpuscles projected in straight lines from the luminous body, and sometimes transmitted, sometimes reflected, when incident on a transparent medium of different density.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
By the motion of a luminous body I do not mean its sensible motion, such as the flicker of a candle, or the shooting out of red prominences from the limb of the sun.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The familiar phenomena of light are no longer regarded as due to any actual matter that has been thrown from a luminous body.
From The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Edward Aveling
In Barzakh the saint would have a bright and luminous body, for such is the reward of the pious.
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer
