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...they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake, not for the sake of religion...
...said that at Venice especially there was a great change in art during this period. This change was most noticeable in the idea of Venus. Previously Venus had been painted as unnatural and without color, while now freshness and beauty characterized pictures...
...planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus and Neptune. Uranus was discovered by Herschel, and Neptune was discovered by references to a point obtained by calculation of irregularities in the motion of Uranus...
...Raymond, the excursionist, Mt. Wilson. The trip occupied two days and was made partly by coach, partly on broncho-back. Connected with Wilson's peak by a narrow ridge is a mountain, which Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site of a coast observatory, for which there is already a liberal endowment. While President Eliot was there, the peak...
...plays. By 1598 he had written at least 12 and perhaps 16 plays and two non-dramatic poems. In 1603 six more plays had appeared and in the reign of James the additional works were produced. He probably never sent any of his writings to the printer's except Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. It has been many times asserted that his objects in writing were purely mercenary. This is not true. He was making a great- deal of money and was deriving an income from three sources; viz., his acting, the copyright plays and his shares in two theatres...