Celestial sphere

itself on the wall and moves along the coffers as the sun moves across the sky. The Pantheon thus functions like a sundial, reflecting the movement of the heave (Cohen). The rotunda also contains many statues of gods, symbolizing how earthly sphere meets heavenly sphere in such a divine place (Steven, Zucker). There are also 140 coffers on the dome (Moore). These coffers not only help relieve the immense weight of the dome, but also symbolize the heaven (Kleinbauer, p.239). As Norberg-Schulz…

interpretations of living realities, once experienced with such intensity that since continued to shape the human consciousness and their world” (1). Here, myths are not merely fictional stories telling, but uninterrupted existential experiences of the human sphere, passing down from countless generations before us. The totality that myth and reality generate in our psyche offers a rich paradigm for understanding general psychological, cultural and societal truths of the human world. According…

Nicholas Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus was a famous astronomer who is credited with the early 16th-century discovery that the sun is the center of the universe and that Earth and several other planets orbit it. Copernicus' discovery has now become known as the heliocentric solar system. Nicholas was a polyglot and polymath. He obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. Nicholas…

Many optical illusions take advantage of our perception, being a "construction project" and our brain constantly trying to estimate the best guess, leading for us to be easily tricked. The moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. One of the most famous illusion and most widely discussed has been the so called "Moon Illusion". For many years psychologists have known about this and have proposed many theories to…

The entire island ‘resounds continually to music in the air, which is […] equivalent to music of the spheres’ . Everything there seems to be ‘wrapped in a serene air of celestial harmony’ . This kind of celestial harmony can only nourish one’s imagination. In addition to that, it gives a sense of divine order. The songs that Ariel sings are divine and always carry a message (for a character in the play; for…

During the last 2000 years, human beings have gradually conquered nearly the whole earth after a plenty of explorations and out of the curiosity inside, they began to pay more and more attention on the outer space. From the Wan Hu who flied to the sky by using a rocket with several rough fireworks on and finally killed himself in the Ming Dynasty to the Armstrong who represented human beings to made the first step on a another planet. Human have the tendency to create more devices and equipment…

Renaissance Courtesy Book or Book of Manners that deals with etiquette, conduct and philosophy. Drawing inspiration from those before him, Castiglione uses ancient Greek and Roman ideas to express Renaissance ideals such as humanism, Music of the Spheres, and emotion relayed through music. Since the Renaissance is a rebirth of archaic ideas, Castiglione references ancient people and their opinions. Although Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1528) was written in the 1500’s, it…

In the colonial, religious architecture in Mexico, it is very common to observe the figures of animals, flowers and celestial figures carved in the stone of the temples. The Spaniard priests were marvelled when they saw the beauty of the carved stone -produced by the indigenous artisans -. Those figures serve as an adornment and embellishment. However, they knew little about the symbolism that such figures held in the Mexica philosophy. Those figures were the actual representation of many of the…

the 1600s that the concept of heliocentric erupted, which is the idea that the sun is the center of the celestial body. The introduction of an improved telescope by Galileo himself paved the way to the doubts of the geocentric concept. The concept was one that was widely accepted and supported by the people and Catholic Church. However, the notion that the earth was not the center of the celestial body had the church concerned. The Bible itself gave the perception that the heavens are like a…

accurate reproductions to high quality prints of iconic painting Christopher Wool’s Wallpaper paintings “blend high art with commercial application, this work acknowledges the history of paintings as functional and decorative objects within the domestic sphere” (Wool) using the allover techniques Abstract expressionists employed in their work Wool was able to use gestural painting in what at first glance appears to be a uniform pattern, but on closer inspection what once where be parallel lines…