Supposedly, the amount of one mili-Helen beauty is sufficient to launch a ship. This witticism derives from the play ’Doctor Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe, and it is based on Homer’s depiction of Helen of Troy, who had ’the face that launched a thousand ships.’ Specifically, if Helen was the measure of beauty which launches ships, …
The illustration of the structure and movement of the wings of a blue fly (Calliphora vomitoria) is one of 38 sketches which were published for the first time in London in 1665, in a book called ‘Micrographia’, one of the seminal books in the history of science. Known as the first scientific bestseller, the book …
Based on only two symbols, dots and dashes, the Morse Code was conceived in such a manner that each letter and each number can be presented by a unique series of dashes and dots. The American inventor and painter Samuel Morse, a man who designed the telegraph in 1836, invented it because his telegraph was …
Will you pull the lever at the crucial moment and kill a person, or you won’t do anything and let a trolley kill five people? This famous dilemma, shown in the illustration, in modern philosophy, is known as the trolley problem, which is the name that has recently been accepted in our country as well. …
Many stories, cartoons, fables and fairy tales created worldwide speak about storks which deliver babies to their parents. Have you ever wondered how come and why storks exactly and not some other animals? Storks are believed to be gentle and peaceful, friendly and gracious animals, which are not afraid of people. In many parts of …