The Park Phenomenon 공원현상

과학동아 1992년 03호

if humans wanted to prove that they could control natures completely. In England, these artificial savannahs changed character in accordance with ideas of "naturalism." Parks, especially on large estates, were designed to seem "natural," with curves instead of the straight lines favored in Versailles.One outstanding park that exemplifies a deliberately created, naturalistic savannah-forest ...

시라노 드 베르주락

과학동아 1991년 12호

현실로 나타난 것이었다.There must be millions of people who know that Cyrano de Bergerac is a fictional character in a play by Edmond Rostand. He is pictured as having a huge nose and was forever killing people who mentioned that fact. He was a poet, playwright, wit and romantic and so foolhardy as to fight a hundred opponents at once-and win. What an extravagant image of an ...

도도새 같은 죽음

과학동아 1990년 11호

from one surviving head and a couple of surviving feet.Its looks are best recalled from the dodo that appears as a character in Chapter 3 of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland. " John Tenniel, the famous illustrator, had it appear in two of his drawings, especially the one in which the dodo is handing Alice a thimble (her own thimble) as a prize. In the illustration, the dodo is pictured ...