classical

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Even so, there is a curious — and hopefully not delusional — optimism in classical music, L.A. style.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“They were far from the classical ideal of male beauty,” Mr. Sidebottom writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The team turned to the Talbot effect, a classical optics phenomenon first described in 1836 by Henry Fox Talbot.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

“Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous: literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Only in a culture where the authority of the great classical authors such as Ptolemy and Galen had begun to be undermined could a project like Vesalius’s Fabric be undertaken.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton