Codex

range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future. He recorded his forward-looking ideas in thousands of notebook pages, known as codices. He produced one codex entirely on flight in 1505-1506, the Codex on the Flight of Birds. Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination. He produced more than 35,000 words and 500 sketches dealing with flying machines, the…

Conquering of the Indians The Spaniards were able to conquer the Indians extremely easily. The Spanish originally wanted to find an easier trade route to Asia to become rich, but they accidentally wound up in the Americas. The Florentine Codex and Columbus’ Journal were written around 1492. Similar documents were also written continually over the next hundred years. The Spaniards were coming into the lands of the Indians ready to fight for gold and destroy whatever they had to, but the Indians…

Colton Cahill ENG105 02/19/2016 Mayan Astronomy When you think of “Mayan Astronomy” you probably think “End of the world in 2012,” but there is more to it than that. You might even say they were crazy, and didn’t know what they were doing. Their incredibly accurate astronomical calculations and sophisticated mathematics would probably prove you wrong though. Those calculations were all steeped in religion and omen, their priests discerning the very will of the gods behind the occurrences of the…

Mayans The Mayan civilization is in the eastern third of Mesoamerica, mostly in the yucatan peninsula. There were many dangerous animals were the Mayans lived, some of them were jaguars, crocodiles, Bull sharks and many species of poisonous shakes. The mayans had to avoid these animals when they were hunting for food in the forests. The highlands and the lowlands of the Mayan territory had much different climates. The lowlands were cooler and drier than the highlands and the highlands had more…

The Individual Cost of War as Represented in The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex The history of war extends nearly as far as the history of humanity and so expressions of war’s impact abound in literature. The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex, texts concerning war, exhibit similarities despite having been written centuries and continents apart. Each emphasizes that although war carries global repercussions, it causes conflict on an individual level as well. In The…

For this small essay, I had to read these texts: Mexica Accounts of Moctezuma Meeting Cortes, by Bernardino de Shag/un and Cortes on Meeting Moctezuma, by Don Hern/an Cort/s. During my reading I noticed that some elements concur in both texts. Such has the gift of necklaces from Moctezuma to Cortés, or that Moctezuma takes the hand of Cortés to guide him somewhere. And other’s do not concur, some elements are not included and some are not the described the same way, in each text. The two main…

Florentine Codex, compiled through the work of Bernardino de Sahagún, describes the Mexica perspective on the massacre. The Spanish perspective on the massacre comes from the memoirs of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was subordinate to conquistador Hernan Cortes during the conquest and published his recollections years later in 1581. These two perspectives are parallel in some ways, but notably distinct in others. The Mexica perspective on the Cholula massacre within the Florentine Codex is…

and valuable, and they are an important part of early Christian art. However, these artificial hand-painted Gospel books, usually include a painting of the portrait of the scribe. For example, Eadwine the Scribe, Eadwine Psalter in the book, and the Codex Amiatinus, which we had discussed in class. These two paintings were recorded in two productions and scribe…

he Apostle Peter’s position within the Catholic faith survives as one that receives high praises as the first Bishop and first Pope of Rome, and the chief pastor of the whole Roman Catholic Church. There exist various reasons why Peter’s honor prevails so respected within the Catholic Church. Justifiably, after reading the Acts of Peter, if true, one may feel overwhelmed with admiration for this noble apostle, and appreciate Peter’s placement within the Catholic Church. Credibly, documentation…

Over five hundred years ago, cleric Diego de Landa approached an abandoned society lost in the jungles of Central America. His findings led him to make assumptions of these people he marked as savages. De Landa denounced these people as “idolatry, divorce, sacrificial, and slave traders” (qtd. in Gibson 13). Nearly three centuries after de Landa’s account, the U.S explorer John Lloyd Stephens noted his discovery of an altar among the ruins of a Central American city called Copán, with the…