Johannes Brahms

Johannes Kepler was born December 25, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. His father was a mercenary who died in Holland when Kepler was only five and his mother was a herbalist who ran an inn owned by her father. Kepler often helped his mother by serving at the inn. Kepler went to a local school and then moved on to attened the Protestant Seminary of Maulbronn intending to become a Protistant minister. After completing his studies at Maulbronn, Kepler went on to attend the University of Tubinegn…

when picking up that book one thinks of it as something rare. Books on almost any topic can be found at several libraries and bookstores all across the world, but there was a time where books were as rare and expensive as precious metals and gems. Johannes Gutenberg was a fifteenth century German blacksmith and goldsmith, whose invention of the movable type printing press revolutionized the production of books. Before Gutenberg’s printing press, books were created by hand. Scribes would cut…

Benedict Anderson the author of Imagined Communities identifies a nation as an imagined political community that is limited and sovereign, as well. The political community consists of a sect of people who feel as if they are united based on a common ground. The people of a nation feel united and identify themselves as an “us” and people outside of the nation would be considered as a “them”. The limitation in the imagined community is the boarders of the nation, no nation can be considered as…

astrologer Johannes Kepler. Who had a great impact in the 17th century scientific revolution, because of his development of the three laws of planetary motion. He is also remembered for the legacy he left that later provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. “Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 poor and sickly in what is now Germany. His father left home when Johannes was five and never returned. It is believed he was killed in a war. While…

growing world market and expanding globalization between civilizations and cultures that either had not have contact or limited contact in the past. The book is organized into eight sections, each corresponding to a different piece of art created by Johannes Vermeer and other artists. Each of these sections covers a different factor, such as the economy for Chinese goods or the work and explorations around the world to create an accurate map of the world, which led to the overall globalization…

It is likely that he spent this time developing his new printing method, as some scholars believe it took at least ten years for Gutenberg to take his ideas to make the printing. Johannes Gutenberg did not invent the printing press. He introduced it to Europe which made books in Europe much cheaper then wooden block. Though the Gutenberg Bible was certainly the first mass produced printed work, it was hardly the first printed book…

in fact – seemingly sacrilegiously – include the ‘most renowned Virgin’ among these ‘girls’. The veneration of the Virgin Mary in this respect was in fact neither unheard of nor decried in the Renaissance period; even in the Late-Medieval Era, this type of imagery was commonplace (Pesce 2009: 152). However, the pre-enlightenment reverence of the physical features of the Virgin Mary can be viewed more as a stylistic and poetic custom than a sign of growing materialist and secular influences,…

center of the universe. He distributed this information, mostly anonymously due to recent rebellion of the Church. His controversial Copernican hypothesis opened the path in which others would follow and build their solutions based on his conclusions. Johannes Kepler, a Lutheran pater, fell into the study of astronomy. A believer of the heliocentric model of Copernicus, discovered the solution was the ellipse. The orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses with the Sun at its focus. He…

The artist Johannes Vermeer was not very well known in his lifetime. Not much is known about his training nor do we know much about the artists he interacted with throughout his professional career. As a result, we see Vermeer’s unique as one completely his own. Throughout his oeuvre, he has developed many patterns in his compositions and subject matter. The tools and motifs he used can be found and analyzed in many of this works by contemporary scholars. However, scholars seem less willing to…

The invention of the printing press led to the spread of new ideas, literature, and religion throughout Europe. Johannes Guttenburg's invention of the printing press was a vital turning point during the time of the Renaissance. It shook the grounds of religion and encouraged people to become more educated. The printing press impacted the lives of the rich and the poor by creating a cheaper and faster way to spread knowledge, literature, and religion. Before the printing press was…