It was he who started dissecting in solitude the stinking corpses of executed criminals and indigent hospital patients, so that he might better comprehend the body’s mysteries, even before the era of Renaissance. Born in 1452, he was at once a painter, architect, mathematician, city planner, biologist and researcher in optics, while at the same time a civil, military and hydraulic engineer. He ...

•Mathematics plays a fundamental role in Science, Technology, and Engineering (learn from Math, apply for STEM) •Mathematical knowledge is rich in content, sophisticated in structure, and technical in presentation! •There is a lot of documents with maths – 120.000 journal articles per year in pure/applied math, 3.5 Million overall – 50 million science articles in 2010 with a doubling time of 8-...

ARHA110 Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to Modern This course surveys the development of Western art from the Renaissance through the modern period. We will examine art's changing status within specific social and artistic contexts: from the Church and court of the Renaissance, through the formation of art academies in the late 16th century, to the development of an increasingly indivi...

FGSS123 Love, Sex, and Marriage in Renaissance Europe This writing-intensive seminar will compare literary and artistic depictions of love, sex, and marriage during the Renaissance by authors and artists from England, Spain, France, Flanders, Germany, and Italy. We will read both male and female writers in genres ranging from poetry, the short story, and theater to the essay, the travel narrati...

Contact: Wolf Seka (585) 275-3815; fax: (585) 275-5960; e-mail: [email protected] http://www.lle.rochester.edu John M. Soures (585) 275-3866; fax: (585) 256-2586; e-mail: [email protected] Fractionation of Fusion Fuel in ICF Capsules: Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition target designs typically assume a homogenous layer of an equimolar mixture of deuterium and tritium fuel kept...

This strong prejudice was of course natural. Ever since the Renaissance, artists had produced white marble sculpture, in imitation, oddly enough, of the Greek and Roman examples known to them, which in the course of time had lost their coloring. It was not easy to give up a belief that had been held for generations and one that had, moreover, started a new practice; for previous to the Renaissa...

Non-destructive methods are of great interest for the analysis of cultural heritage. Among the different possible techniques, this paper presents a low cost prototype based on the emission and reception of airborne ultrasound without direct contact with the test specimen. We successfully performed a method test for the detection of brick joints under a XV th century Renaissance fresco of the Me...