Science, Art and the Classical World in the Botanizing Travels of William Bartram

The article analyzes the correlation between the screen reality and the first-order reality in the digital culture. Specific concepts of the scientific paradigm of the late 20th century are considered as constituent principles of the on-screen reality of the digital epoch. The study proves that the post-non-classical cultural world view, emerging from the dynamic “chaos” of informational and semantic rows of TV programs and cinematographic narrations, is of a fractal nature. The article investigates different types of fractality of the TV content and film plots, their inner and outer “strange loops” and artistic interpretations of the “butterfly effect”.

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‘Higher then to her no bookes doe reach’

10.1093/oso/9780198816720.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Martha Vandrei

Keyword(s):

Early Stage ◽

Deep Understanding ◽

Contemporary Philosophy ◽

James I ◽

Historical Method ◽

The Past ◽

Classical World ◽

Material Evidence ◽

Do So

This chapter and the following both draw the reader into seventeenth-century understandings of the past, and of Boudica in particular, and makes clear that in a time before disciplines, writers of ‘history’ were erudite commentators, immersed in political thought, the classical world, and contemporary ideas, as well as in drama, poetry, and the law. Chapter 1 shows the subtleties of Boudica’s place in history at this early stage by giving sustained attention to the work of Edmund Bolton (1574/5–c.1634), the first person to analyse the written and material evidence for Boudica’s deeds, and the last to do so in depth before the later nineteenth century. Bolton’s distaste for contemporary philosophy and his loyalty to James I were highly influential in determining the way the antiquary approached Boudica and her rebellion; but equally important was Bolton’s deep understanding of historical method and the strictures this placed on his interpretive latitude.

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Hegel's Antiquity

10.1093/oso/9780198839064.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Will D. Desmond

Keyword(s):

World History ◽

Historical Thinking ◽

Aesthetic Theory ◽

Roman World ◽

Classical World ◽

Roman Antiquity ◽

Greek World

Hegel’s Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel’s understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself. The discussion excerpts relevant details from a range of Hegel’s works, with an eye both to the ancient sources with which he worked, and the contemporary theories (German aesthetic theory, Romanticism, Kantianism, Idealism (including Hegel’s own), and emerging historicism) which coloured his readings. What emerges is that Hegel’s interest in both Greek and Roman antiquity was profound and is essential for his philosophy, arguably providing the most important components of his vision of world history: Hegel is generally understood as a thinker of modernity (in various senses), but his modernity can only be understood in essential relation to its predecessor and ‘others’, notably the Greek world and Roman world whose essential ‘spirit’ he assimilates to his own notion of Geist.

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Music in the Classical World: Genre, Culture, and History by Bertil van Boer

Notes ◽

10.1353/not.2021.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 (3) ◽

pp. 416-419

Author(s):

Daniel Barolsky

Keyword(s):

Classical World

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Timelessness Strictly Inside the Quantum Realm

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23060772 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 772

Author(s):

Knud Thomsen

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Quantum Physics ◽

Quantum Systems ◽

The Real ◽

Classical World ◽

Quantum Objects ◽

The Everyday ◽

Double Slit

Time is one of the undisputed foundations of our life in the real world. Here it is argued that inside small isolated quantum systems, time does not pass as we are used to, and it is primarily in this sense that quantum objects enjoy only limited reality. Quantum systems, which we know, are embedded in the everyday classical world. Their preparation as well as their measurement-phases leave durable records and traces in the entropy of the environment. The Landauer Principle then gives a quantitative threshold for irreversibility. With double slit experiments and tunneling as paradigmatic examples, it is proposed that a label of timelessness offers clues for rendering a Copenhagen-type interpretation of quantum physics more “realistic” and acceptable by providing a coarse but viable link from the fundamental quantum realm to the classical world which humans directly experience.

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William Bartram/Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 Joseph Ewan

The Auk ◽

10.2307/4083688 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 183-184

Author(s):

Herbert Friedmann

Keyword(s):

William Bartram

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Visitors to Leuke Island

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia ◽

10.1163/15700577-12341393 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 193-267

Author(s):

Mikhail Abramzon ◽

Irina Tunkina

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Geographical Range ◽

Northern Coast ◽

Trade Routes ◽

The Balkans ◽

Meeting Point ◽

Magna Graecia ◽

Classical World ◽

New Information ◽

Economic Ties

Abstract This article is the publication of the plates compiled by N.N. Murzakevich, secretary of the Odessa Society for History and Antiquities. It contains tracings of 241 Classical coins and lists of coin finds from the island of Fidonisi (known as Leuke in antiquity), which had been excavated in the 1840s and early 1850s. Recent data have led to a doubling of the list of Greek centres (up to 202) and the rulers of a number of states and peoples, whose coins made their way to the island. Details of these finds and the dates of the emissions illustrate clearly the development and chronological framework of the religious and economic ties between the northern coast of Pontus with the various regions of the Classical oikumene. The geographical range of the coin finds (from Magna Graecia, Sicily and the Levant to the Aegean, the Balkans, the Pontic region and Asia and as far away as Mesopotamia) demonstrates that the sanctuary of Achilles on the island of Leuke situated at a meeting point of Black Sea trade routes, enjoyed enormous popularity in the Classical world. The publication of these plates compiled by N.N. Murzakevich makes available new information on the maritime trade in the Pontus area between the 5th century BC and the 5th century AD.

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