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Home of Man
“What A Wonderful World”
Bernard Fowler (2019)
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— Bill Anders
“Earthrise” (1968)
“I’m A Man”
Spencer Davis Group (1967)
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— Leonardo da Vinci
“Vitruvian Man” (1490) human proportions
Optiks
“Money”
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
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— Pink Floyd
Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Sir Isaac Newton
Opticks (1704)
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders.
Astronomy
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei
v. The Catholic Church
“Mona Lisa”
Nat King Cole (1954)
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— “Mona Lisa“
Leonardo da Vinci (1503)
Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.”
— Alessandra Tarantino (AP)
Visitors stand in front of Michelangelo’s “David statue” in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Florence museum and the city’s mayor are inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s sculpture of David. The invitation comes after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.
— Le Violon d’Ingres (Ingres’s Violin)
Man Ray (1924)
“Cosmik Debris”
Frank Zappa Apostrophe (1974)
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— Frank Zappa
One Size Fits All (1975)
Earth (Home of Man)
Gustav Holst (1914-1917)
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— frank zappa
One Size Fits All (1975)
— “Creation”
One Size Fits All (1975)
Living Colour
Time’s Up (1990)
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— carl sagan
cosmic message in a bottle
The Power of Gold
Vivid (1988)
Time’s Up (1990)
Stain (1993)
Collideøscope (2003)
The Chair in the Doorway (2009)
Shade (2017)
Led Zeppelin
BBC Introduction (1969)
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— HINDENBURG (1937)
At the time, German Nazis dominated the skies.
— LED ZEPPELIN (1969)
Having featured the Hindenburg Explosion photograph on the cover of its first album, Led Zeppelin pissed off Denmark’s Royal family, The Von Zeppelins.
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art). The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
— CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1492)
Sailing for Portugal’s Queen Isabella, Columbus ventured into the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to find a shorter (commercial) route to India.
“New World Symphony”
Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude (1975)
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India’s Bengal Sultanate led to the colonization of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the Portuguese voyages by Vasco da Gama, which linked Europe with the Indian subcontinent, ushering the period of Iberian empires.
Moments In Time (a photographic history)
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Living In The Past
The Sound of History
The 15th Century was the Century that spanned the Julian Calendar, from January 1, 1401 to December 31, 1500.
In Europe, the 15th century includes parts of the Late Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance, and the early modern period. Many technological, social and cultural developments of the 15th century can in retrospect be seen as heralding the “European miracle“ of the following centuries. The architectural perspective, and the modern fields which are known today as banking and accounting were founded in Italy.
Constantinople, known as the Capital of the World and the Capital of the Byzantine Empire (today’s Turkey), fell (fall of Constantinople) to the emerging Muslim Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the tremendously influential Byzantine Empire and, for some historians, the end of the Middle Ages. This led to the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy, while Johannes Gutenberg‘s invention of the mechanical movable type began the printing press. These two events played key roles in the development of the Renaissance. The Roman Papacy was split in two parts in Europe for decades (the so-called Western Schism), until the Council of Constance. The division of the Catholic Church and the unrest associated with the Hussite movement would become factors in the rise of the Protestant Reformation in the following century. Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus) became dissolved through the Christian Reconquista, followed by the forced conversions and the Muslim rebellion, ending over seven centuries of Islamic rule and returning Spain, Portugal and Southern France to Christian rulers.
The search for the wealth and prosperity of India’s Bengal Sultanate led to the colonization of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the Portuguese voyages by Vasco da Gama, which linked Europe with the Indian subcontinent, ushering the period of Iberian empires.
— CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1492)
Sailing for Portugal’s Queen Isabella, Columbus ventured into the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to find a shorter (commercial) route to India.
The Hundred Years’ War ended with a decisive French victory over the English in the Battle of Castillon. Financial troubles in England following the conflict resulted in the Wars of the Roses, a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England. The conflicts ended with the defeat of Richard III by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth Field, establishing the Tudor dynasty in the later part of the century.
In Asia, the Timurid Empire collapsed, and the Afghan Pashtun Lodi dynasty was founded under the Delhi Sultanate. Under the rule of the Yongle Emperor, who built the Forbidden City and commanded Zheng He to explore the world overseas, the Ming Dynasty‘s territory reached its pinnacle.
In Africa, the spread of Islam lead to the destruction of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia, by the end of the century, leaving only Alodia (which was to collapse in 1504). The formerly vast Mali Empire teetered on the brink of collapse, under pressure from the rising Songhai Empire.
In the Americas, both the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire reached the peak of their influence, but the European colonization of the Americas changed the course of modern history.
Filippo Brunelleschi, regarded as one of the greatest engineers and architects of all time.
Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl, directly influenced the result of the Hundred Years’ War.
