The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872Ruskin, John
Philosophy
The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
Ruskin, John
Art and science
Perception, knowledge interferes with artistic, 126.
Permian system of geology, 160.
Persia, famine in, 36.
Persian idea of God as Light, 116.
Peru, 83.
Pheasant, the "scratcher" of birds, 188.
" and peacock, Darwinian connection of, 185.
Phidias' Theseus, 39.
Philammon, 151.
" myth of Philammon and Autolycus, 189.
Phillips, Prof., of Oxford, 160.
Philophronesia, 8.
Philosophia, 8.
Photography, value of, 147.
φρόνησις, 8, 25.
" different kinds of, 23.
Physical circumstances, effect of, on myths, 199.
Physiology and art, 207.
" its true meaning, 207.
Physiologist, on sight, 99.
Plagues of Egypt, 118, 170.
Plants, instinct of, 97.
Plato, his definition of sight, quoted, 97.
Pleasure, in great and small, rude and fine art, 82.
" the greatest, given by inferior art, 82.
" decrease of, with increase of years, 82.
Pleiades, 28.
Plutarch, on the Halcyon, quoted, 193.
Plymouth, Turner's drawing of, 125.
Piacenza, the orle of, 235.
Pictures, the reality must be better than the semblance, 165.
Pietra dura ornament, 88.
Pile, the heraldic, 235.
Pindar's "Coronis" (Pyth. iii. 14, 48), 189.
Pines, Scotch and stone, confused by Turner, 133.
Pisa, coin of, 157.
" cruelty of, and Dante, 35.
Pæstum, plain of, 7, 25.
Poetry, its essence, 100.
ποικιλία, 73.
Polygnotus, porch of, 119.
Pool of water at Iffley, 118.
Pope, quoted:--
Essay on Criticism, "A little knowledge," &c., 20.
Homer, "Oh stay, oh pride of Greece, Ulysses, stay," 74.
Poseidon, 25.
Possibility, ancient recognition of human and divine, 195.
Pottery, not made by rule, 139.
Power, constructive and negative, 20.
Praise, life's duty is to give and deserve it, 213.
" love of, in man, 212.
" what kind of, to compete for, 212.
Prayer, efficacy of, 67.
Prey, use of sight to beasts of, 110.
Prodicus (of Xenophon), 40.
Proprietor, speech of English landed, to author, 200.
Protection, heraldic sign of, 235 (10).
Prout, growth of his power, 86, 87.
Provincial art, 91, 92.
Prudence, a lower virtue, 23.
" contrasted with σοφίa, 26.
Purification, the most sacred art, 118.
Purity, physical, 117.
Purple _v._ orange, use of, in art, 226.
Quartering, heraldic, 236.
Quoits, disk and orle, 235.
Radclyffe, the, at Oxford, 119.
Railway, power of sight on the, 111.
Rainbows, drawings of, 129 _n_.
Raphael, 218.
" substitutes orange for red, 226.
" works of:--
Nativity of, offered to the English, 24.
Theologia, or Dispute of the Sacrament, 46.
Raptores, Birds, 187.
Rasores, Birds, 187.
Rattlesnake, eyes of the, 109.
Real and ideal in history to be distinguished, 215-216.
Reason and conceptions, 11.
Red, or "gules," its history and universal use, 226.
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