Johannes Gutenberg

In 1657, Johannes Vermeer painted “The Milkmaid”. It is an oil on canvas painting and it on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Vermeer was a Dutch painter who liked to get his ideas from middle class life. He used a lot of monochrome shades of grey, browns, greys, and then he would apply primary colors, reds, blues, and yellows on top, to form a transparent looking painting. He used expensive pigments to illustrate the lighting in the painting, which then helped reflect the many colors he…

Josquin des Drez(ca.1440-1521), a legendary fame, remains a historical figure for his unusual musical talent. The administrative records that depicts him as a legend of music are few or let’s say rare to found with certainty. But, some of the remains gives us the outline of his contributions in the field of music during renaissance. During his period, the quality of his music was hardly appreciated than the music of his contemporaries as a result of which we can now only find the works of…

I know that trading in our paper books for digital versions will cause some problems. Paper books are easier for students; they cause no temptations, better for health, and no battery. They also the cost of the digital versions, have them on the go, easy to see in sunlight, and easy to carry around. There are so many reason why paper books should not be thrown away and be replaced with digital books and here is why. To start with paper books are easier for students and they cause no temptations…

Basing on his personal experience, the author of this article addressed both the pros and cons of ereaders, and his feeling was a representative of people who faced the emergence of ereaders. First, he talked about his experience of purchasing his first ereader, a Kindle. Because there were too many kinds of ereaders in the market at that time, and new one never stopped coming out all the time, the author did not know which to buy after he got various advice from friends. When a new ereader came…

marriage was “one of love, a Protestant to a Catholic and against both families ' wishes. He had to leave his neighborhood… erased from the civic records”. Most art historians refute the claims about Catharina, as “there is not a shred of evidence that Johannes and Catharina were unhappily married.” Catharina was a strong woman who survived familial abuse, enormous debt, her love’s death, and being a single parent, all while holding on Vermeer’s masterpiece, The Art of Painting. She never sold…

Modern Science would unarguably be completely different without the Scientific Revolution. It was a major moment in the history of Western Culture, not to mention science and it’s history as a whole. Out of the Scientific Revolution came modern science and things like the scientific method were created. Countless scientific discoveries came from the great research of key figures in the scientific revolution such as Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus. The scientific revolution took place in a…

More than four hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler declared to the world that Mars travels on an elliptical orbit in his magnum opus the Astronomia Nova. This new elliptical orbital model of Mars not only perfected the heliocentric model of Copernicus in terms of providing it with a sounder mathematical foundation, and rendering it more able to predict the motion of Mars better than any traditional geocentric model like that of described by Ptolemy in the Almagest, but also challenged the ancient…

During the early 17th century, many people were still very divided on the issues concerning the motion of the earth and the sun. The church argued for geocentrism while many other scholars and individuals argued for heliocentrism. However, this fight over the Earth’s movements was not only centered around the natural sciences, but the interpretation of the bible (Westman, 11/8). This discussion included a debate on the power and authority of the church due to the Bible influencing the view of…

Schumann’s Involvement in Resurrecting J.S. Bach As editor and writer for his own music journal, Neue Zeitscrift für Musik, Robert Schumann made it his personal mission to write about worthy composers and lift them up as examples to the music community. He was tired of the “Philistines” of the current music establishment, such as Wagner and Meyerbeer, who he felt were commercial and pretentious. He brought Brahms and Chopin to Germany’s notice, because he felt that their music was “honest craft…

the years 1904-1909, and the love of Scriabin’s piano works showed in Prokofiev’s early piano pieces. He imitated some of Scriabin’s pianistic techniques in his early piano works like the “repeated-note arpeggios” and “wide-ranging bass”. But he soon turned to seek more radical musical language that completely departs from the romanticism, and during the years 1909-1914 he finished his composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually…