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The Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb , painted on wood by the Van Eyck brothers in the 15th century , is preserved in its original location in St. Banon's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. This large-scale work has two sides, one closed and the other open, and …

Gehry's interest in urban design was to a large extent reinforced by the emergence of postmodernism, which coincided with his invitation to the memorable 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale. A complex project such as the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles …

Through the shaping and elaboration of glass, we'll illustrate how innovation is at the heart of industrial processes, closely linked to inventions and scientific understanding. Thanks to these technological advances, glass has been able to develop a wide …

It had taken millennia for successive innovations in materials and manufacturing processes to produce glass transparent enough for use in glazing and optical instruments. But in the second half of the twentieth century, two radically new processes made it …

The systematization of law begun in the second half of the 16th century by the modern legal method (usus modernus ) and continued from the end of the 17th century by the law of reason ("school of natural law"), while integrating particular rights as they …

The oldest Coptic " incunabula " then include a glossary based on the Greek text of the books of the minor prophets Hosea and Amos (British Museum papyrus EA 10825), a set of glosses to another Greek edition of the minor prophets ( Freer Manuscript V), as …

Previous lectures have laid the foundations of algorithmic geometry. The following lectures will focus on the construction of computer models representing the complex geometric shapes that can be digitized today, such as mechanical parts, organs or …

Abstract Based on the example of the instrumentalization of the Shāhnāme , this article sets out to highlight the poem's twofold intellectual dependence: on the political schemes imposed since independence (nationalism, ethnocentrism) and on the ideas …

About "Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus" (2007). …

Knowledge of ancient Greek is required for the seminar. …

Abstract In order to prepare and observe coherent and entangled superposition states, immense efforts are being devoted to eliminate relaxation and decoherence. Recent works, however, have pursued an exactly opposite approach and actively employed …

Abstract In this lecture, we introduced the notion of "two-dimensional quantum fluid". Most of the lesson was devoted to the case of the perfect gas governed by the Bose-Einstein statistics. We looked successively at the uniform case, for which there is …

This parasitic disease is a global scourge that still causes around 600,000 deaths a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, despite major advances in protection and treatment. Plasmodium , the agent of malaria, is a single-celled, intracellular …

The information age we live in is supported on a physical under-layer of electronic hardware, which originates in condensed matter physics research. The mighty progress made in silicon based technology seemed endless. However, with the smallest feature …

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The Pergamon Altar or Altar of Zeus, built in the 2nd century BC, was discovered in fragmentary form by Prussian archaeologists in present-day Turkey, on the site of the ancient kingdom of Pergamon, in a town now known as Bergama. It has now been …

In the 1960s, Gehry established a lasting relationship with developer James Rouse, who was behind a series of innovative urban projects. He built several buildings in the new city of Columbia, Maryland, before working for five years on the design of the …