Canon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Canons) Jump to: navigation, search Cannon A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees, depending on their intended use on the battlefield. The.Canon may refer to:
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Culture and arts
- Aesthetic canon A canon in the sphere of visual arts and aesthetics, or an aesthetic canon, is a rule for proportions, so as to produce a harmoniously-formed figures, when drawing/modeling etc. a human figure, a rule for its proportions.
- Cannons (house), a stately home in Edgeware, Middlesex now known by its modern spelling, Canons
- Canon as a number of art masterpieces:
- Chinese classics Chinese classic texts or Chinese canonical texts refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics (四書五經). All of these pre-Qin text were written in classical Chinese. They can be referred to as jing (經) or Chinese canonical texts
- Film canon The idea of a film canon has been attacked as elitist[citation needed]. Thus some movie fans and critics[who?] prefer to simply compile “lists”. But canon simply means “the best”[citation needed] and proponents of film canon[who?] argue that it is a useful exercise to identify and experience a limited number of the “best” films, if, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged
- Western canon The Western canon is a term used to denote a canon of books, and, more widely, music and art, that has been the most influential in shaping Western culture. It asserts a compendium of the "greatest works of artistic merit." Such a canon is important to the theory of educational perennialism and the development of "high culture", the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
- Canon (fiction) A canon, in terms of a fictional universe, is a body of material that is considered to be "genuine" or "official", that can be directly referenced as, or as if it were, material produced by the original author or creator of a series. New works set within that universe are ostensibly constrained to be consistent with pre-, material that is considered to be "genuine", "something that actually happened", or can be directly referenced as material produced by the original author or creator.
- Canon (music) In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration . The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes). The follower must imitate the leader, either as an, a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
Geography
- Canon, Georgia, a city in Franklin County, Georgia, United States
- Cañon A canyon or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level. The cliffs form because harder rock strata that are resistant to erosion and weathering remain exposed on the valley walls. Canyons are much more common in arid areas than in or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs
Company
- Canon (company) Canon Inc. is a multinational corporation that specialises in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, photocopiers, steppers and computer printers. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
Religion
- Canon (priest) A canon is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule (canon), a Christian priest who belongs to one of certain chapters
- Canon law Canon law is the body of laws and regulations made by or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law governing the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the Anglican Communion of churches. The way that such church law:
- Canon law (Catholic Church) Canon Law, the Canon law of the Holy Roman Church, is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulated legal code and principles of legal interpretation. The academic degrees in canon law are the J.C.B. , J.C.L. (Juris Canonici Licentiatus, Licentiate of Canon Law) and the J.C.D. (Juris
- Penitential canons
- Canon (hymnography) A canon is a structured hymn used in a number of Eastern Orthodox services. It consists of nine odes, sometimes called canticles or songs depending on the translation, based on the Biblical canticles. Most of these are found in the Old Testament, but the final ode is taken from the Magnificat and Song of Zechariah from the New Testament. For, a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn
- Canonical texts:
- Biblical canon A Biblical canon or canon of scripture is a list or set of Biblical books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community, generally in Judaism or Christianity. The term itself was first coined by Christians, but the idea is found in Jewish sources. The internal wording of the text can also be specified, for example:
- Taoist canon Daozang , meaning "Treasury of Dao" or "Daoist Canon", consists of around 1400 texts that were collected circa C.E. 400 (quite some time after the Dao De Jing and Zhuang Zi which are the core Daoist texts). They were collected by Daoist monks of the period in an attempt to bring together all of the teachings of Daoism, or Daozang
- Pāli Canon The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down. It was composed in North India, and preserved orally until it was committed to writing during the Fourth Buddhist Council
- Chinese Buddhist canon The Chinese Buddhist Canon , which means Great Treasury of Scriptures, is the total body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in China, Korea and Japan. It includes both Agama, Vinaya and Abhidharma texts from Early Buddhist schools, as well as the Mahayana Sutras of Mahayana Buddhism and scriptures of Tantric Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhist canon The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism
- Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
Names
Canon is the name of:
- Canon (manga), a shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi
- Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
- The Canon of Medicine The Canon of Medicine is a 14-volume medical encyclopedia written by Persian scientist and physician Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and completed in 1025. The book was based on a combination of his own personal experience, medieval Islamic medicine, the writings of the Roman physician Galen, the Indian physicians Sushruta and Charaka, and Persian medicine,, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Canon of Eclipses, a compilation eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
Others
- Canon (sociology), an accepted principle or rule
See also
- Canonization Canonization is the act by which the Catholic Church or another religious group declares a deceased person to be a saint and is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints. Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process
- Cannon (disambiguation)
- Kanon (disambiguation)
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