Various and Sundry Things

Click HERE to hear Einstein explain his E = mc2 formula

Click HERE to see a video clip of Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton, during the filming of a speech on behalf of the Hebrew University, 1950's.

 Click HERE to hear Einstein in a radio broadcast on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, November 4, 1943.


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Critique of Pure Reason

Written by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, in 1781.  Kant is considered to be the last major philosopher of the early modern period and one of history's most influential thinkers.  Kant is most famous for his view (called transcendental idealism) that we bring innate forms and concepts to the raw experience of the world, which otherwise would be completely known.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is considered the most significant single book in modern philosophy.  It is in this work that he developed his idea of transcendental arguement.


Surrealism

1. A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. 2. Literature or art produced in this style.

Symbolism

1. The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. 2. A system of symbols or representations. 3. A symbolic meaning or representation. 4. Revelation or suggestion of intangible conditions or truths by artistic invention. 5. Symbolism The movement, theory, or practice of the late 19th-century Symbolists.

Romanticism

1. often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. 2. Romantic quality or spirit in thought, expression, or action.

Definitions come from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.


Rodin's Sculpture of Balzac (pg. 32)

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Sigma

1. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. See table at alphabet. 2. A sigma factor. 3. A sigma hyperon.

Definition came from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.


"...the Moonlight, the Junelight, and You." (pg 58)

Evidently this is a reference to the Beatles' song "I'll Be On My Way."  This song was only ever released on the Beatles' album "Live at the BBC" (1964).

Click HERE to play the song.

The lyrics are as follows:

The sun is fading away,
that's the end of the day.
As the Junelight
turns to moonlight
I'll be on my way.
Just one kiss, then I'll go.
Don't hide the tears that don't show.
As the Junelight
turns to moonlight
I'll be on my way...
...to where the winds don't blow
and golden rivers flow.
This way will I go.
They were right, I was wrong.
True love didn't last long.
As the Junelight
turns to moonlight
I'll be on my way.
To where the winds don't blow
and golden rivers flow.
This way will I go.
They were right, I was wrong.
True love didn't last long.
As the Junelight
turns to moonlight
I'll be on my way, hey.
I'll be on my way, ooh.
I'll be on my way, ooh.
I'll be on my way.


Euclid

Greek mathematician (365-300 BCE) whose Elementae (Elements) offered an axiomatic system for geometry based only on a few "common notions" and five basic postulates:

  1. Any two points can be joined by a unique straight line.

  2. A straight line can be extended indefinitely in either direction.

  3. From a center point, a circle can be drawn with any radius.

  4. All right angles are equal to each other.

  5. If two straight lines crossing a third form angles less than two right angles on one of its sides, then indefinite extensions of these lines eventually meet.

Although rejection of the fifth postulate eventually led to the development of alternative geometries by Lobachevsky and Riemann, Euclid's emphasis on axiomatic structure remained significant for mathematicians like Peano and Hilbert and served as a significant model for such philosophers as Hobbes and Spinoza.

Information gathered from Philosophical Dictionary Erasmus-Extrinsic

 


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