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
From this highest Being proceeds by a physical necessity, as light from a luminous body or water from an overflowing spring, a second hypostasis or substance, the nous or Reason.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
We will suppose that an undulatory movement is started by a luminous body at point A situated in the Aether, and surrounded by that medium.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
But every luminous body throws a shadow; the Academy of Sciences, and this number one, are the shadows thrown by that political body.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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
