Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

BOOKS CHANGES THE WORLD : The Analects of Confucius

 Confucius (551-479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher of Chinese history His philosophy emphasized personal, government, morality, social relationships, justice and sincerity. 

This book about words of Confucius and his disciples, Analects contain twenty books, each speck  encompasses quotes from Confucius, which were compiled by                                       his disciples after his death

BOOKS CHANGES THE WORLD : On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres written by Nicolaus Copernicus



Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer also he take part in varying fields,
In is time most people strongly believed that the earth was at the center of the universe (geocentric)
But in his book, Copernicus put forward a new theory that the earth rotates on its axis daily and revolves yearly around the sun 
Also argued that the planets circled the sun (heliocentric), we know he was right now, in fact, not many people liked his book on his time, unfortunately he was no more within a year of completed his book, he may live in while there were possible of spent his rest of life in  jail 


A Statue of Copernicus 

BOOKS CHANGES THE WORLD : The Republic Written by Plato (around 380BC)



For long back, books have been written in to share knowledge, inspiration, and discoveries. Sometimes those books make such an impact that they change the way the world thinks about things. So am going to list out a few of them in following



 The Republic book written by Plato 
Plato was born into the wealthiest  family in ancient Greece and also the student of Socrates , he founded the university called Academy after is teacher death , he has written the book called  "The Republic" in Greek language, in this book he describes Socratic dialogue and also his thought about the better government because  he thought the government of Athens was not fair enough at that time, he wrote the book in the form of conversations (dialogues)


This book contains famous dialogues of his: "THE REPUBLIC AND THE DEATH OF SOCRATES"  

worlds most reproduced photography

 Alberto Korda with is photograph 


Heroic Guerrilla Fighter(Guerrillero Heroico) photograph take by Alberto Korda,
However, Korda did not want commercialization of the image in relation 
to products he believed Guevara would not support, especially alcohol. 
This belief was displayed for the first time in 2000, when in response to Smirnoff using
Che's picture in a vodka commercial, Korda claimed his moral rights (a form of copyright law)
and sued advertising agency Lowe Lintas and Rex Features, the company that supplied the photograph.
Lintas and Rex claimed that the image was in the public domain.
The final result was an out of court settlement for USD $50,000 to Korda,
which he donated to the Cuban healthcare system, stating 

"if Che was still alive,he would have done the same."

Oldest painting in the world ever founded

It is the Oldest painting in the world ever founded 
'Panel of Hands', El Castillo …(Spanish cave)
at least 40,800 years old

Story behind work : The Pietà (1498–1499)


Marble sculpture and the masterpiece of renaissance done by Michelangelo buonarroti he was just a age of 20's at the time , work were located in St. Peter's basilica,Vatican city.
the subject called Lamentation(English) or Pietà (Italian), a scene from the Passion of Christ found in the Life of Christ,the Lamentation of Christ,it from Christian art depictingthe Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus.

Did Leonardo da Vinci invent scissors?

Revealing myth between da vinci and the scissors.....





Leonardo da Vinci is popularly, but erroneously, 
credited with inventing modern scissors. 
A scissor-like tool made of a single piece of metal was in use in ancient Egypt
around 1500 BC. There is evidence of modern cross-blade scissors with a pivot being used
in Rome some 1600 years later. Quite simply, Leonardo da Vinci did not invent scissors.
He was born long after examples of Roman scissors were found.