Tag: Louis

Polarization was a new topic in physics at that time. Étienne-Louis Malus, a fellow Frenchman, discovered the Law of Malus, governing how much light passes through two polarizers, in 1808, just 14 years before Pasteur’s birth. Pasteur’s friend and mentor Jean-Baptis...

In Pennsylvania Station in New York , circumstances made it the most startling end to an eminent architect’s life, he collapsed on the floor of the men’s room, his corpse remained at the city morgue for more than two days before anyone discovered that he was an internationally respected ...

Paintings often manage to be vehicles of vindication, works in which the authors operate to transmit to a broader public their requests, desires, or wishes for the world they observe. Jacques-Louis David was no exception, and he lived through convulsive times in which he used his art to give...