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...Corning Museum of Glass. Thirty are being set in wood plaques for a Pennsylvania glass firm, while another went to London with Agassiz's great-great-great grandson. Most of them, of course, simply become treasured mementos of the great age of Cambridge glassmaking, and remainders of a noted naturalist and traditions he fostered at Harvard. They usually end up holding herbs, tea, cookies, tobacco, sea shells, or just sitting in the sun where the light can play through the irregular swirls and patterns in the old glass...
Douglas was reared in poverty by his widowed mother in Yakima, Wash., near the mountains where he would later build his beloved wilderness retreat. A lifelong conservationist, naturalist and enthusiastic hiker-climber, he began challenging mountains as a boy in order to rebuild legs ravaged by polio. After graduating from Whitman College, he hitched a freight to New York City, arriving with 60 in his pocket, then worked his way through Columbia Law School-once writing a text for a law correspondence course in a subject he had yet to take himself...
...book, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Rosen skillfully refutes these arguments. First, he places atonality and serialism in the context of the anti-naturalist tendencies which pervaded all the arts during the early part of the century. In the visual arts, the cubists and the Expressionists took bold steps toward the liberation of painting from the constraints of perspective and the desire to reproduce nature on canvas. In literature there was a similar movement away from naturalistic fiction to more introspective and fragmented modes. Composers were also motivated by this desire to free their art from natural as well as conventional constraints...
...Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...
Matthiessen is a noted explorer and naturalist as well as a novelist. Back in 1967, he sailed on a turtle boat out of Grand Cayman. As thoroughly as possible with words on paper, he has duplicated that experience, creating along the way an uncommonly successful mixture of fact and fiction. Far Tortuga is a treatise on turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see. Most memorably, it is a spare adventure tale about simple men driven to the extremities...