Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Falcon, Andreas Vesalius, Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter and Frank Netter created some of the best atlases of anatomy. Their works constitute not only scientific medical projects but also masterpieces of art.

Our upper-level university honors course, entitled Great Theorems: The Art of Mathematics, views mathematics as art and examines selected mathematical masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Following a common practice in the humanities, for example in Chicago’s Great Books program and St. John’s College curriculum, we have students read original texts without any modern writer or instructo...

The artist Henri Matisse captured the essence of a problem we often have in science—those landmark discoveries that benchmark the type of progress we think we should be continuously making. This edition of CCR Focus presents instead an alternative view of discovery and progress, one in which a steady expansion of our understanding of the biology of breast cancer has led to progress on multiple ...

Actually there is neither trustworthy method nor software available in the market for male-female masterpieces nominal distance calculation. This is a common large problem for workshops that deal with mould making and their correctness. Knowing this distance is essential in stamping or pressing tasks for automotive industry. For this purpose a 3D point laser scanner attached to a milling machin...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated writers of all time. He published several masterpieces, some of which include references to neurological diseases. Poe suffered from recurrent depression, suggesting a bipolar disorder, as well as alcohol and drug abuse, which in fact led to his death from complications related to alcoholism. Various hypotheses were put forward, including Wernicke'...

professor jean yoyotte, one of the most prominent french egyptologists, holds that perhaps unlike what the egyptians themselves maintain, the fountainhead of everything is not in egypt; yet one has to agree that circa 3000 bc, egypt was indeed much more advanced than its neighboring states. indelible relics, architectural masterpieces, and works of art remaining from that era have reached us th...

Minbar is one of the most important additional architectural elements of any mosque. Its importance in emphasizing the Qiblah direction as well as the position of Imam in order to deliver sermon (khutba) leads to the flourish and interference of a fairly large number of handicrafts like wooden decorations and related features specific to the mosque architecture like tile works and stucco design...

Mosque as the house of God has always been significant to rulers, people and Muslim artists. It is one of the most ancient architectural subjects. Varamin1Jami mosque from Ilkhanid2 era is one of the masterpieces of Iranian-Islamic architecture. It was one of the first projects which started the glorious era of renovation after the dark times of the Mongols3 invasion. Perfect stucco ornaments i...