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Thomas Chatterton

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Ground-breaking Innovations of Sculptor Antonio Canova

The Ground-breaking Innovations of Sculptor Antonio Canova

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Upon admiring Antonio Canova’s most famous statues, which include Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1787), Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1804-6), and Dancer with Her Hands on her Hips (1805-12), we are primarily struck by the pristine beauty and harmony they convey. Neoclassicism, the artistic and cultural movement he played a key role in, is known for reinstating the purity and harmony of classical antiquity after the overly decorated works with contorted lines of actions in the baroque and the Rococo era. It was the time of the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and, overall, Neocla...

Today in science: Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe

Today in science: Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe

November 20, 1889. Happy birthday, Edwin Hubble! The Hubble Space Telescope is named for this astronomer, because Hubble’s work helped define our modern cosmology, our idea of the universe as a whole.Hubble helped astronomers see that we live in an expanding universe, one in which every galaxy is moving away from every other. If you read an introductory book about galaxies, or take an introductory class on them, you’ll likely encounter what’s known as Hubble’s law. In its simplest form, it states that, the more distant the galaxy, the faster it is moving away from us. This concept li...

Joseph Fouché, Villain Of The French Revolution

Joseph Fouché, Villain Of The French Revolution

There are always those who see opportunity in chaos. The destruction of the old order leaves gaps that need filling, and “men of vision” see nobody better than themselves to fill those gaps. This does require a certain moral flexibility, of course. A willingness to leave behind your old beliefs and embrace new ones even more fervently. There were many such men who rose and fell during the French Revolution, but few were as blatant or as successful as Joseph Fouché.Fouché was born in the tiny village of Le Pellerin in western France in 1759. His father Julien Joseph Fouché was a slave...

The political sermons of Lancelot Andrewes

The political sermons of Lancelot Andrewes

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The political sermons of Lancelot Andrewes, delivered between 1607 and 1622 on the anniversaries of the Gowrie and Gunpowder Plots, deserve more attention than they have hitherto received. Although he has often been called a Jacobean absolutist, Andrewes is better described as a political Elizabethan. The key to his intellectual originality resides not in his fundamental theoretical positions but rather in his method of exegesis. Andrewes was the first theologian or theorist to have worked out a coherent exposition of the doctrines of divine right and non-resistance which was fo...

The Ground-breaking Innovations of Sculptor Antonio Canova

Today in science: Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe

Joseph Fouché, Villain Of The French Revolution

The political sermons of Lancelot Andrewes

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Paving the way to polythene

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Paving the way to polythene

It is 50 years since Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta won the Nobel prize for their work on polymers. Mike Sutton traces the story of their discoveriesDuring world war two it was widely believed that Britain’s fighter pilots were fed carrots to improve their night vision. Vitamin A is necessa...

Your guide to Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor statesman and prince of the church

Religion

Your guide to Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor statesman and prince of the church

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the architect of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and for a time King Henry VIII’s chief minister, had one of the most extraordinary political careers in English history. In his time, he was called by some ‘alter rex’ – the ‘other king’. Professor Glenn Richardson explores t...

Henrietta Leavitt – Celebrating the Forgotten Astronomer

Astronomy

Henrietta Leavitt – Celebrating the Forgotten Astronomer

One century ago, in 1912, an astronomer named Henrietta Swan Leavitt made a discovery that was to become one of the cornerstones of modern astronomical science. And yet, during her lifetime she received neither plaudits, nor acclaim, nor even serious recognition from her peers. Even today, she is...