Latin phrase referring to several years during which events of major importance occurred
For the poem by John Dryden, see Annus Mirabilis (poem).
Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", "miraculous year", "year of wonder" or "amazing year". This term has been used to refer to several years during which events of major importance are remembered, notably Isaac Newton's discoveries in 1666 and Albert Einstein's papers published in 1905.
Annusmirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", "miraculous year", "year of wonder" or "amazing...
The annusmirabilis papers (from Latin annusmīrābilis, "miracle year") are the four papers that Albert Einstein published in Annalen der Physik (Annals...
Annus horribilis (pl. anni horribiles) is a Latin phrase that means "horrible year". It is complementary to annusmirabilis, which means "wonderful year"...
nuclear weapons with great dismay. In 1905, sometimes described as his annusmirabilis (miracle year), Einstein published four groundbreaking papers. These...
though a difficult period for the poet, marked the beginning of his annusmirabilis in which he wrote his most mature work. He had been inspired by a series...
physics journal. These are the papers that history has come to call the AnnusMirabilis papers: His paper on the particulate nature of light put forward the...
mirabilis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mirabilis is a Latin adjective meaning "amazing, wondrous, remarkable", and is used to refer to: Annus mirabilis...
committee also failed to recognize the other contributions of his AnnusMirabilis papers on Brownian motion and special relativity. Often these nominations...
emitted by them. 2005 was renamed the "annusmirabilis" of numerical relativity, 100 years after the annusmirabilis of special relativity (1905). The Lazarus...
wife Mileva Marić, and their son Hans Einstein from 1903 to 1905. The AnnusMirabilis papers, which presented Einstein's theory of relativity and contributed...
being drawn up against Ireland for a play-off tie, making 2011 the "annusmirabilis of Estonian football". They have since repeated this feat by qualifying...
examples of ballad meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in AnnusMirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns employ...
cost of an American postage stamp was worth 1 cent. March 17, 1905 – AnnusMirabilis papers – Albert Einstein publishes his paper "On a heuristic viewpoint...
year. In Britain, the victory is celebrated as contributing to the AnnusMirabilis of 1759. The western German-speaking states of Europe had been a major...
Partizan won 6–2, and 7–4 on aggregate. 1963–64 turned out to be the annusmirabilis of Luxembourgian football, as the national team almost reached the...
"This Be The Verse" and "The Explosion", as well as the title poem. "AnnusMirabilis" (Year of Wonder), also from that volume, contains the frequently quoted...
control of the seas, which was enhanced by success during its 1759 annusmirabilis. France, Austria, and their European allies ultimately were unsuccessful...
during the war. Thus, the year 1706 proved, for the Allies, to be an annusmirabilis. After their disastrous defeat at Blenheim in 1704, the French found...
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