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...Silk Road. In exchange, astrological findings from its western reaches deepened China's knowledge of the heavens. The principal trade routes lay between 30 and 40 degrees latitude, ensuring that Silk Road kingdoms from the Mediterranean to China saw the same stars and could benefit from shared observations. Manuscripts depicting the movements of the Moon and planets found in Arabic and Indian astronomy, which had been shaped by the discoveries of Babylon, also show up in Chinese studies of the heavens. A likely product of this cumulative knowledge is an early chart of the night sky found in the Chinese...
Though Guerard’s comments on the manuscript suggest several small changes—the opening paragraph was too conventional, he explained, and the main character needed to be more clearly defined—he said he found “real power and authenticity” in the piece and suggested that Updike submit it to The New Yorker...
...focus of his research and teaching has been West African history, with particular attention to his native Ghana. He is currently finishing a manuscript on “towns and disease in Anglophone West Africa,” and said he is contemplating using the professorship’s resources for “a new project on cultural history among the Asanti...
...long lull in the Hundred Years War, and his flourishing city attracted artists and artisans from all across Europe, notably Italy, Flanders and Germany. Prefiguring Renaissance humanism, their themes were not only religious but also the ideals of chivalry and courtly love, and their handiwork included painting, sculpture, manuscript illuminations, enamels, tapestries, stained glass, embroidery and jewelry. Sometime in the late 18th century, it seems, artists began to alter their collective self-image. They stopped considering themselves as Renaissance men and started to strike outsider poses as bohemians - and even buffoons, jesters, jugglers, acrobats and clowns. At least, that...
...have been unloading Dad's gems for years. In 1993 they sold $3 million worth of Orientalist paintings and drawings; in 1997, a toy-soldier collection for about $600,000; in 2002, some 60 Faberge objects for nearly $6 million. Other items have been sold as well, including the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's last speech and a trove of other presidential documents, a 727 jet named Capitalist Tool and real estate in Fiji and Tangier, Morocco...