More than a famed writer and social critic of the Victorian period, Charles John Huffam Dickens touched the lives of people with the very human complexity of his fictional characters. Through his critically acclaimed novels, Dickens invoked profound thought and criticism around “social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy.” In a commentary on a rare, extensive collectionContinue reading “Charles Dickens & His Works”
Monthly Archives: September 2014
The Roosevelts
In his fourteen-hour PBS special, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, Ken Burns highlights the extraordinary journey of the Roosevelt family’s American legacy in the White House. Beginning with Theodore’s birth in 1858 and ending with Eleanor’s death in 1962, the seven part film documents the influential family’s enormous part in shaping the country throughout theContinue reading “The Roosevelts”
Isaac Newton’s The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Einstein describes Newton’s The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: “”Newton’s Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the greatest synthesis of the cosmos,Continue reading “Isaac Newton’s The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”