It is almost always the place where art begins, where the glimpse of an idea, the barest trace of a thought, finds its first outward realization.
In this programme we hope to trace the history of an idea across the cultures and centuries of Europe and the Middle East.
Its origins can be traced back to an idea of physicist Philippe Busquin, who was the E.U. commissioner for research from 1999 to 2004.
Her book, above all, traces the history of an idea and its implementation.
Most scientists who have written a journal article have had to write history – we know it as a literature review, but essentially it's a kind of history writing, linking events to one another, trying to trace the progress and evolution of an idea over time.
In The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea Brague takes his readers back three thousand years to trace the idea of divine law in the West from prehistoric religions to modern times.
The European Copyright Code displays traces of the idea that authors have an innate right to a revenue stream from their work.
Although the earlier editions do not include the same understanding of perception, there traces of the idea expressed in the earlier editions.
It is possible to trace a similar idea of timeless eternity back to Parmenides, though exactly what he means is the subject of scholarly dispute.
There's no trace here of the idea that a Moor might be caught in the dazzle of his own rhetoric.
"in mental functions something is to be distinguished a quota of affect or a sum of excitation which possesses all the characteristics of a quantity (though we have no means of measuring it) which is capable of increase, diminution, displacement and discharge, and which is spread over the memory-traces of ideas somewhat as an electric charge is spread over the surface of a body.
