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The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, [2] Andrew Oliver, and other Founding Fathers of the United States. [3]
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the largest of the ten faculties that constitute Harvard University. Headquartered principally in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and centered in the historic Harvard Yard , FAS is the only faculty responsible for both undergraduate and graduate education.
Title page of The British Encyclopedia, 1809, vol. 4. The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, claimed by its publishers to be a work "Comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge", was published at London in 1809 in six octavo volumes and around 150 plates.
An early concept for the foundation of the academy, and a set of world scientific and youth scientist and science journalist associations, was proposed in an article in Time magazine on October 1, 1938, by philosopher Etienne Gilson in the 1940s, and echoed in the 1950s by scientists who were concerned about the potential for misuse of scientific discoveries.
Academy of Arts and Sciences may refer to: Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts; European Academy of Sciences ...
John H. Werren, Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology at the University of Rochester, leading expert in evolutionary genetics, awarded the Humboldt Prize [1], member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [2] [3], fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [4]; Google Scholar profile.
Post-Biblical saints art index: A locator of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, icons, frescoes, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts, and engravings, created from the 4th century to 1950, with a directory of the institutions holding them. McFarland, 1994. ISBN 0899509428. [1] Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art.
Photography – art, science, and practice of creating pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors. Sculpture – three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials – typically stone such as marble – or metal, glass, or wood.