27 Artworks By John Singer Sargent, The Gilded Age Painter Who Toed The Line Between Tradition And Avant-Garde
From the Portrait of Madame X to Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, John Singer Sargent's paintings and illustrations show why he's considered a virtuoso artist.
By Andrew Milne, Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-singer-sargent
John Singer Sargent at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36606
#art #painting #culture
Where Did Native Americans Originate From?
"Native American history reaches back at least 15,000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers crossed an Arctic land bridge from Siberia to Alaska."
https://www.thecollector.com/where-did-native-americans-originate-from/
#history #nativeamericans #ushistory
The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart
In 1931, John B. Sparks created the Histomap, condensing more than 4,000 years of world history into a vibrant infographic.
By Rebecca Onion (from the archives)
#history #maps
How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down
by Katie White
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/john-singer-sargent-madame-x-three-things-2633448
#art #culture #painting
16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time
By Regina Sienra
https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookwheel
#bookwheel
The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed
Victorian women were excellent at it.
by Cara Giaimo (from the archives)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed
Books by or about Margaret Gatty at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margaret+Gatty&submit_search=Search
#naturalhistory #marinebiology #womeninStem
The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia
By Joshua Hammer
Austen Henry Layard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40288
#history #oldmanuscript
#OTD in 1875.
Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley also meets his future wife while in hospital and writes the poems collected as In Hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Silver
Treasure Island at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
#books #literature
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
By Paul Sawers
#books #publicdomain
Why did Louis de Broglie, Nobel laureate in physics, abandon his own pilot wave theory?
By Laurie Letertre
#science #physics
"It is important to realize that science, which knows no national boundaries & whose achievements are the common possession of mankind, has through the ages united men in their efforts to elucidate the foundations of our knowledge."
Niels Bohr
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44167
#books
"But just as much as it is easy to find the differential of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not."
~Johann Bernoulli (6 August 1667 – 1 January 1748)
#books #mathematics
Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures.
Tibet's Sakya Monastery is home to many wonders. Founded in 1073, its collection includes some of the oldest Tibetan artwork, as well as 84,000 ancient manuscripts and books.
By Regina Sienra via @mymodernmet
https://mymodernmet.com/sakya-monastery-library/
#books #library #manuscripts
nostr:npub14cxp92c6e5x5jw3tww5lt2wnqjgvw7xk0pvzv330r0pgmtca8rvqueqwkm I found his original paper (in Latin) here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1724.0016
#OTD in 1930.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight. The cause of her death has been a subject of discussion over many years.
#aviator #womanengineer
"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787). Preface, A vii.
~Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804)
#books #literature #philosophy
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"What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!"
A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (ed. 1734)
~George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753)
#books #literature #philosophy
"The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth."
The Well Of Loneliness
English writer Radclyffe Hall died #OTD in 1943. She is best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), which created a scandal and was banned for a time in Britain for its treatment of lesbianism. via @Britannica
Books by Radclyffe Hall at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45238
#books #literature
"Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path."
~ Edgar Allan Poe, "Letter to Frederick W. Thomas" (February 14, 1849).