{"id":3066,"date":"2014-09-02T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:48:28","slug":"a-round-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/a-round-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"A round plane…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…well, no planes are really involved here \ud83d\ude09 I visited Long Meg and Her Daughters this morning as the morning mist was looking interesting, as I wandered around with the camera I started to wonder what the definition of a circle is. We all know what a circle is, but I couldn’t remember the etymology of the word.<\/p>\n

The dictionary says a circle is<\/p>\n

A round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre) <\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which sounds about right \ud83d\ude09 and the etymology (via etymonline.com) is<\/span><\/p>\n

c.1300, “figure of a circle,” from Old French cercle<\/span> “circle, ring (for the finger); hoop of a helmet or barrel” (12c.), from Latin circulus<\/span> “circular figure; small ring, hoop; circular orbit” (also source of Italian cerchio<\/span>), diminutive of circus<\/span> “ring” (see circus).<\/p>\n

Replaced Old English trendel<\/span> and hring<\/span>. Late Old English used circul<\/span>, from Latin, but only in an astronomical sense. Meaning “group of persons surrounding a center of interest” is from 1714 (it also was a secondary sense of Latin circulus<\/span>); that of “coterie” is from 1640s (a sense also found in Latin circulus<\/span>). To come full circle<\/span> is in Shakespeare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here’s some photographs from Long Meg Hring….<\/p>\n

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Limited edition prints will be available upon request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…well, no planes are really involved here \ud83d\ude09 I visited Long Meg and Her Daughters this morning as the morning mist was looking interesting, as I wandered around with the camera I started to wonder what the definition of a circle is. We all know what a circle is, but I couldn’t remember the etymology of the word. The dictionary says a circle is A round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre) which sounds about right \ud83d\ude09 and the etymology…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[125,231,139,138],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-cumbria","tag-landscape","tag-long-meg","tag-stone-circle"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}