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The power of Mao Tse-tung is virtually immune to anti-Stalinism, according to Harvard-educated Ping-chia Kuo, because Mao has never allowed his followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people...
The world lives in an evolving universe, says Ong, in which geological ages, over the course of some 5 billion years, follow "one after the other in a mysterious, but unmistakably patterned, sequence." In this evolution of the earth from "brute nature" toward more and more "homanization," technology is the...
Before starting the nine-volume project, Sarton wrote a two-volume "Introduction to the History of Science," "The History of Science and the New Humanism," "The Study of the History of Science," and "The Study of the History of Mathematics." These works totalled over 3,000 pages.
The decision of Fra Angelico and his brother, who became Fra Benedetto, to present themselves at the doors of the small Dominican monastery, set in a vineyard at the foot of the hill of Fiesole outside Florence, came at a crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican...
To embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from...