Full Definition of SITE. 1. a: the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b: a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building. 2.
The Whole is Other than the Sum of the Parts When the perceptual system forms a percept or gestalt, the whole thing has a reality of its own, independent of the parts. The Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka made a famous statement about this: The whole is other than the sum of its parts. This statement is often translated to English as, The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, is credited with the Ptolemaic Model of the solar system. His model posited not only that the Earth was the center of the entire universe and assumed that the planets all moved in epicycles--small circles--that also moved alongâ¦.