Polymath

The Father of Modern Science: Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei is an important historical figure who is known as the Father of Modern Science. He was a polymath meaning he excelled in many sciences. He was a physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, and an excellent inventor. Galileo greatly affected history and if he had not made his discoveries it is possible that we could be living in a very different world today. In the beginning… Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy…

inventor of the stove, giving us a chance to see in bifocals and giving us the idea of how electricity really works. All of these were done by a man who never completed school yet formed his life through reading and experience. He was a genuine polymath, a business person, and a…

Week 2 Assignment- How the Visual Arts Communicate Catherine Clement ARTS/100 December 8, 2014 Joseph Calarco Week 2 Assignment- How the Visual Arts Communicate For this assignment, I have chosen option B, to compare and contrast Michelangelo’s “Pieta” and da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, two works of art from the High Renaissance. Michelangelo was one of the most famous and influential artists of the High renaissance period. He created a new idea of art in the form of individualism and had such a…

in song dynasty have created many significant innovations and inventions. During that 300 hundred years ruling, the ingenuity of Song people provided some of the most significant technological and conceptual advances in many fields such as arts, polymaths, engineering, and agriculture to Chinese culture and pushed human civilization forward to a new level. Emperor Huizong came to the Song throne in the first month of 1100, three months after his seventeenth birthday, and reigned almost…

The clouds broke, and light began to shine through the large, curtainless, loft-style windows flanking a four-hundred-square-foot apartment containing only a bed, a faded purple sofa, a birch-coloured dinner table, and a single chair. Hand-me-downs would be the explanation to friends regarding the eclectic range of furniture. The truth was that they were obtained for free through a series of favours to strangers. I sat down and opened a laptop bought off of Craigslist. The operating system was…

Next, “justification by faith alone" is surely the most important contribution of the Reformation. The second most important, arguably, is the "doctrine of vocation. " In the same way, Calvin’s reformation of the Roman Catholic Church was not limited to soteriology, but extended to an entire world and life view, including vocation. The dogma of dualism that was once held by Gnostic heretics was not fully extinguished in the early days of the church; its influences can still be seen in the…

Is Michelangelo’s David a work of art or a scientific craft? In today’s world, many people place a clear division between the arts and sciences; the arts and humanities occupy one realm of being while the sciences and logic occupy another. In clear contrast to this notion, history shows that some of the worlds most famed painters and sculptors lived dual lives among the leading scientists, doctors, and mathematicians of their day. The hyper realistic figures and architecture seen in the…

Muslims, initially it was Indian texts that were being translated but as the ninth century drew closer, this shifted to predominately Greek texts. For mathematics in particular, this significantly opened for the Muslims, new writings of historical polymaths such as Plato, Aristotle and Euclid; corresponding to my case study, which also showed a large increase of scholars studying mathematics especially during and shortly after the tenth…

Quod phoenix est ut incenderent existo.’-The phoenix must burn to emerge. In accordance to this statement everything in this cosmos at one point of time must be reborn to emerge stronger than ever. There is a specific period in life when humans at a certain time become retrospective. Rebirth or The Renaissance during the Quattrocento period in Italy epitomized this phenomenon. Classical antiquity and the interest and learning that accompanied it was reborn after the Middle Ages in a period…

One of the greatest scientific minds of the 17th Century is Robert Hooke. As a polymath and renaissance man, he contributed in physics, chemistry, anatomy, biology, geology, paleontology, architecture & memory. His Theory of Elasticity help to regulate watches, he worked on the Wave of Light Theory, Matter expands when heated, he first…