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A memo from an early twentieth-century advertisement for electrotherapy: despair and dejection will do you no good, but electricity will. And, you know, they did not lie
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AI is already used in museum practice: it helps with research, navigation through the galleries, cataloguing and the attribution of works. And the participants called for joint efforts and the creation of a "coordinated body of knowledge about art". What remains the museum's own in the
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There is a legend that in the eighteenth century one of Isaac Newton's teeth was sold in London for several hundred pounds, in those days the price of a decent house. At some point, it is said, the owner of the relic had the tooth set in a
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Specialists at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen intend to use atomic oxygen, a substance found naturally in low Earth orbit, in the restoration of works on paper, reports The Art Newspaper Russia. Lead white enjoyed wide popularity from ancient times until the twentieth century, when it fell out
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It is now known what Louis XIV really died of in 1715: a scientific study of his heart has revealed an infectious cause of death. Physicians now know which microbe brought on his gangrene. A palaeoproteomic study carried out on a sample of the heart of Louis XIV offers new
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Gentlemen, Moscow and every other Russian capitalists! Will you let the French, Germans, Swedes, English and Americans exploit this Russian wealth too and make a handsome profit from it, or will you think of taking it yourselves, when it is pointed out to you once more as a great lucrative
Art · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg
There are three versions of the painting "The Lute Player". One is kept in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. The second belongs to the collection of the Wildenstein family, the well-known French art dealers. The third was until recently considered a copy. In 1969 specialists from Sotheby&
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I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:. 📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution
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Let us take four from the many scenes: Fermentatio, Putrefactio, Solutio, Calcinatio. They show, first, the substance: a toad half-submerged in water and speckled with rising bubbles. This is the textbook visual representation of the "putrefaction of matter, often accompanied by the release of gas. Putrefaction is followed
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Tell me, Damoetas, whose flock is this? Is it Meliboeus'? "You are mistaken, Aegon: it is another's. But let it be, for often Thyrsis himself called out to me, and Aegon answered." <a lengthy, bantering conversation of the shepherds> With Jove, Muses, let
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In September, the World's First Public Railway Turns 200. On 27 September 1825, the locomotive Locomotion No. 1, designed by George Stephenson, drew a train along the Stockton and Darlington line in the north-east of England. The name Locomotion soon became a common noun: the word "