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...Cavendish, the eccentric British millionaire chemist who has been investigating the properties of hydrogen. Instead of testing what electric fish actually do, Cavendish attempted to duplicate their actions by creating an artificial ray and then passing an electric current through it from a battery of the devices known as Leyden phials. He constructed a fish out of wood, with the shock organs made of pewter, but he was dissatisfied with the results, partly because the artificial fish gave off weaker shocks when submerged under water. Cavendish's conclusion was cautious: "On the whole, I think there seems nothing...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the master's death, "In Search of Rembrandt" visits Leyden, where the painter was born, Amsterdam, where he lived, and museums throughout the world...
...Dutch-born Protestant leader prefers to think of himself as simply "an international Christian worker." He has never been anything else. Thirty-eight years ago the American ecumenist John R. Mott picked Visser't Hooft out of the State University of Leyden and made him the secretary of the YMCA's World Alliance. Two years later Visser't Hooft became head of the World Student Christian Federation. When the 1937 Oxford Conferences of the Life and Work and Faith and Order Movements resulted in the establishment of a Provisional Committee to set up the World Council of Churches, Visser...
...hero is first seen as a hotheaded and rather surly 17-year-old who is already the favorite apprentice of the local master painter in Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their...
...Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy on tables and shelves Bronze statues are strewn about, cloaked in spider webs. There are works by Jan Brueghel Lucas Van Leyden, Jan van de Velde and Lucas Cranach the Elder. One portrait of a woman is believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci. One of the rarest items is the brooding portrait of a man (see color), attributed-rightly or wrongly-to the 15th century artist Jean Fouquet...