What does it mean to have a "world view?" How does "thinking about the meaning of life" translate into "living life?" Who are the world's great thinkers? Is Aristotle still relevant? This Collection features philosophy-related stories.
As Dante and Virgil make their way through the Inferno, they encounter demons with pitchforks. Although the pitchforks are raised, as if to attack, th...
Understanding Dante's Inferno becomes much-easier when we view illustrations by an artist like Gustave Dore.
An unknown miniaturist, working in Venice during the 1340s, created this work illuminating a page from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The 14th-century m...
Is math the world's universal language? Can we understand the natural world by using math? Discover the stories behind five "beautiful equations."
Jefferson won the 1800 election, the federal government's program of excise taxes on Americans was abolished, however the role of government is still ...
Passing through the frozen part of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil encounter heads which seem to be completely frozen in ice. Gustave Dore illust...
In 1616, Galileo agrees not to teach the Copernican theory. Thereafter, Church officials believe he violated that agreement.
Continuing with his theories on motion, Galileo used a horse to demonstrate that the Earth moves.
Galileo Galilei was born at a time when people believed the sun revolved around the earth - a theory originally proposed by Aristotle.
When Galileo began to experiment with his new telescope, by pointing it to the sky, he made the world's first astronomical observations.
Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.
Protesting what he considered an unfair constitutional separation of India's castes, Gandhi begins a to-the-death hunger strike on September 16, 1932.
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