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Joan later published the Atlas of England (1648) with maps of John Speed, the Atlas of Scotland (1654) with maps of Timothy Pont and Robert Gordon, and Martino Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis (Atlas of China, 1655), which were added as respectively the fourth, fifth and sixth volumes of Blaeu's Atlas Novus.
Frontpage of Novus Atlas sinensis, by Martino Martini, Amsterdam, 1655.. Martini was born in Trento, in the Bishopric of Trent, Holy Roman Empire.After finishing high school in Trento in 1631, he joined the Society of Jesus, continuing his studies of classical literature and philosophy at the Roman College in Rome (1634–1637).
In Literature and Science, Huxley bemoans the disregard for science shown by many if not most literary contemporaries. He dismisses as "literary cowardice" [3] the artists' professed bewilderment in an era when "Science has become an affair of specialists. Incapable any longer of understanding what it is all about, the man of letters, we are ...
Mind map of top level disciplines and professions. An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.It is taught as an accredited part of higher education.
Geoffery N. Berry is quoted interpreting the study as “criticism as an exploration” [1] and states that the category “makes a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as books, history and science”. This is an example of the practical application of ‘Arts and Letters’ to the interpretation and documentation of wider society.
The Academy was a review of literature and general topics published in London from 1869 to 1915, with a period from 1902 to 1905 when it was retitled The Academy and Literature. It was founded by Charles Appleton. [1] The first issue was published on 9 October 1869 under the title The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science ...
There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.
A Department of Economics and Social Science began in 1951 with a psychology program. The Institute launched the Humanities track (Course XXI) in 1955. This allowed students to major in humanities or social sciences alongside concentrations in science or engineering. A political science program followed in 1956.