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Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith
Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Monet and Renoir, friends collaborating in open air about 1865, discovered that sunlight filtering through a canopy of tree leaves does not produce the splotches and dapples that studio artists conventionally represented at the time but circles of light. Sometimes the circles of light punctuating the shade are clear, separate and crisp, as though light is being propagated as particles, but if the pin-hole gaps between leaves are very close together, they will project compound or superimposed circles that look like the waves that Thomas Young saw in his double slit experiment in 1803-4. Newton’s Opticks published in 1704 had …
Disillusionment In War Literature, Esmeralda Kleinreesink
Disillusionment In War Literature, Esmeralda Kleinreesink
Esmeralda Kleinreesink
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Frederick avoided fighting the 6th Crusade by negotiating a peaceful sharing of Jerusalem by people of all faiths. No doubt it helped that he spoke Arabic and personally engaged in five months of negotiations rather than combat.
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.
Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A poem introducing a theory of how Joan, an illiterate teenager, inspired a demoralized French army to defeat the English.
Editor's Note, Catherine Schmitt
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Born In 1930, Prose/Poem 3/7/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
A homage to Presidrnt Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his America, political democracy was extended toward economic democracy. His policies began to be reversed in the 1980s. We are living in the desert of inequality created by that reversal.
Patriotism Or Revenge?, Eric S. Benninghoff
Trying Home: The Rise And Fall Of An Anarchist Utopia On Puget Sound, Justin Wadland
Trying Home: The Rise And Fall Of An Anarchist Utopia On Puget Sound, Justin Wadland
Justin Wadland