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...days put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 3.1415926. China's silk-weaving, porcelain-making, metallurgy and ship-building reached the world's best level in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyu initiated the 12-tone temperament, which later became the universal standard tones. Chinese medicine is a unique school of its own. China's four great inventions of paper-making...
...upon others' strong points to improve oneself." The Han and Tang dynasties were both an age of economic prosperity and also one of flourishing international exchanges. Imperial envoy Zhang Qian's trip to the "West" in the Han Dynasty, over 2,000 years ago, opened up the world-famous Silk Road; Eminent Monk Xuan Zang, of the Tang Dynasty, brought back ancient culture after braving the long journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading...
...Cosmo, who also runs the East Asian Studies sophomore tutorial, says he is trying to reach out to a broader population of undergraduates, perhaps with a Foreign Cultures Core course on the history of the "Silk Road...
...Willson Peale, the artist of the Revolutionary War period who created the first American museum, a highly personal wunderkammer of his own portraits of American heroes mixed with natural-history specimens. When you think of Rauschenberg giving new life to a stuffed angora goat in Monogram, 1955, or repeatedly silk-screening the effigy of John F. Kennedy, there's some truth to this. But his closer affinity is with an equally polymorphous ancestor, Walt Whitman, the entranced celebrant of American variety...
...then, Rauschenberg had stopped making his work from actual objects and was using overlays of silk-screened photos, an idea he got from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...