[lbo-talk] Have a happy and merry December 25

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's  
> greatest men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human  
> race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and  
> of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood.
>
> Jim F.

MRZine marks December 25 with two paintings that mark the dawn of  
modernity:

William Blake, "Issac Newton" [till 12:30 PM]:
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/index251205.html>
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/index251205b.html>

and

Rembrandt, "Young Jew as Christ" (the sitter of the painting is a  
young Jew who was evicted from spain and settled in Rembrandt's  
neighborhood in Amsterdam) [after 12:30 PM]:
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/>
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/index251205c.html>.

A founder of modern science, a great poet and artist who had an  
ambivalent relationship with modern science, and a great painter who  
brought a modern historical perspective to paintings of religious  
figures and portrayed religious exiles in a spirit of tolerance (cf.  
An excerpt from Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler:
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/567362.html>). . . .

2006 will mark the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth.

Yoshie Furuhashi
<http://montages.blogspot.com>
<http://monthlyreview.org>
<http://mrzine.org>