Word: galileo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrated artist. By using a hard varnish on his plates, he was able to eliminate lines and create others at will. His etchings were sometimes little bigger than a postage stamp, sometimes about the size of a modern postcard. Peering through a magnifying glass that Galileo had given him, Callot was able to fill them with an incredible amount of detail. He did his share of portraits to please his patrons, but the entire baroque procession, in all its motley moods, was his province. There were simpering courtiers and crippled beggars, bustling plazas, horse races, duels and card games...
Other eras were turbulent, insecure and complex ? the great migrations after the fall of the Roman Empire; the age of discovery; Copernicus and Galileo's tink ering with the universe, removing the earth and man from its center; the industrial revolution. But in a sense, the 20th century U.S. is the culmination of all these upheavals?itself the product of a gigantic migration, itself both champion and victim of the industrial revolution, itself faced with the necessity not only of accepting a new universe but of exploring...
Attacking the socialization of the individual in Dewey's philosophy, Bruner declared that "education must help the individual develop his own internal culture." Modern culture is so complex, he said, that even a Galileo or an Aquinas could no longer master it in its entirety...
Still further in Galileo, Mother Courage, and The Good Woman of Setzuan (three of the Marxist plays in the present volume) the playwright illustrates what each of his major characters must give up. To Brecht yielding is psychologically far more important (or intriguing) than acquisition. The roots of his negativism may lie in the vicinity of this fact...
Shortly before Descartes published his Principles of Philosophy, the Church had condemned Galileo for his belief in a moving earth cosmology. Descartes' definition enabled him to avoid condemnation by claiming that the earth is at rest in its vortex...