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- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] ...
28: ...tlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of ...
31: ...]], all of which she believed helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
5: ...her composing. Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in...
7: ... public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Felix's piano [[concerto]] No. 1.
9: ... originally published under Felix's name in his [[opus]] 8 and 9 collections. Her piano works are often ...
11: ...ndelssohn-Hensel died in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while rehearsing... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "...
4: ...er, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo ...
6: ...r of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the wor...
8: ==Kepler's life==
9: ...at town, but by the time Johannes was born, the Kepler family fortunes were in decline. His father ea... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... over the traditional [[geocentric theory]] (that placed [[Earth]] at the center of the [[Universe]]),...
10: ...omer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
16: ...ined access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the opinion of Ancients on the movemen...
20: ...tensively on government [[business]] and as a [[diplomat]], on the behalf of the [[Prince-Bishop]] of ...
28: ...visit and study with them. Rheticus became a disciple of Copernicus' and stayed with him for two years... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
12: ... petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles of literary and religious progress to which he ...
14: ... regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without fear to the Catholic Churc...
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was...
32: ...er]]s. Here and there Erasmus lays down the principle that a man may properly have two opinions on rel... - Roman architecture (3399 bytes)
3: ... orders|orders]]; the first being a shortened, simplified variant on the [[Doric order]] and the Compo...
5: ...chitecture, concrete's strength freed the [[floor plan]] from [[Rectangle|rectangular]] cells to a mor...
27: * [[Temple (Roman)]]
35: * [[Impluvium]]
36: * [[Opus]] - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...René „escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ... Earl of Devonshire, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismisse...
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
7: ...'s castle of [[Roccasecca]] in the [[kingdom of Naples]]. Landulf's brother, Sinibald, was abbot of th...
9: ...rly medieval Europe. This change of heart did not please the family; on the way to Rome, Thomas was se...
14: ...such place as he should choose, and he selected Naples.
16: ... When asked why he had stopped writing, Aquinas replied, "I cannot go on...All that I have written see...
18: ...express for others systematically, clearly and simply. Because of the keen grasp he had of his materia... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
11: ... we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.
13: ... until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his priva...
17: ... a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill in playing it; Bach was equally at home talking with or...
19: ...d Latin school when he was 18, an impressive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he...
22: ... masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys ... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ...ks. The visual arts, such as [[painting]], are employed to create the visual spectacle on the stage, ...
9: Singers and the roles they play are classified according to their vocal ranges....
11: ...a, and [[aria]], during which the movement of the plot often pauses, with the music becoming more melo...
13: ...genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed for nearly all imagin...
20: ...ns simply "works" in [[Latin]], the plural of <em>opus</em> suggesting that it combines the arts of solo...
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