Negritude is a concept that reasserts black African cultural and aesthetic values against European colonialism; stating most simply that black intuition is opposed to European logic. It has been current since the 1930s, when it was used originally among French-speaking African writers and intellectuals to emphasise their pride in their own culture. Its adherents have included Leopold Senghor and the Martinique poet, playwright, and politician Aime Cesaire. Research Negritude
Aime Bonpland was a French botanist. He was born in 1773 at Rochelle and died in 1858 in Brazil. He accompanied Alexander Von Humboldt on his expedition to the New World, during which he collected over 6000 plants, previously unknown and on his return to France in 1804 he was made director of the gardens at Navarre and Malmaison. He later returned to South America to study and live. Research Aime Bonpland
Aime Millet was a French sculptor and painter. He was born in 1819 at Paris and died in 1891. He began to exhibit in 1842, and created a great sensation by his sculptor entitled 'Ariadne' in 1857. Research Aime Millet
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Humboldt (Baron von Humboldt) was a German traveller and naturalist. He was was born in 1769 at Berlin and died in 1859. His father held the post of royal chamberlain at Berlin. He studied at the Universities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Berlin, and Gottingen, and also at the commercial academy in Hamburg.
His first work was Observations on the Basalt of the Rhine published in 1790. In 1791 he studied mining and botany at the mining school in Freiberg, and subsequently became overseer of the mines in Franconia. In 1797 he resolved to make a scientific journey in the tropical zones along with a friend, Aime Bonpland. They landed at Cumana, in South America, in July, 1799, and spent five years in exploring scientifically the, region of the Orinoco and the upper part of the Rio Negro, the district between Quito and Lima, the city of Mexico and the surrounding country, and the island of Cuba. In 1804 they arrived at Bordeaux, bringing with them an immense mass of fresh knowledge in geography, geology, climatology, meteorology, botany, zoology, and every branch of natural science, as well as in ethnology and political statistics.
Humboldt selected Paris as his residence, no other city offering so many aids to scientific study, and remained there arranging his collections and manuscripts until March, 1805, after which he visited Rome and Naples in company with Gay-Lussac, but eventually returned to Paris in 1807, when the first volume of his great work, Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, appeared; the thirtieth and last was published in 1827.
In 1827 Humboldt, who had been offered several high posts by the government of Prussia, and had accompanied the king on several journeys as part of his suite, was persuaded to give up his residence at Paris and settle at Berlin, where he combined the study of science with a certain amount of diplomatic work. In 1829, under the patronage of the CzarNicholas, he made an expedition to Siberia and Central Asia, which resulted in some valuable discoveries, published in his Asie Centrale.
In 1835 he published at Paris his Examen Critique de la Geographic du Nouveau Continent. In 1845 appeared the first volume of the Cosmos, his chief work, a vast and comprehensive survey of natural phenomena, in which the idea of the unity of the forces which move below the variety of nature is thoroughly grasped. Research Friedrich Humboldt
Paul Jacques Aime Baudry was a French painter. He was born in 1828 and died in 1886. He took the grand prix de Rome in 1850, and exhibited many important works, of which the better known are his Charlotte Corday and La Perle et la Vague. The decoration of the foyer of the New Opera House at Paris was entrusted to him - an enormous work, occupying a total surface of 500 square metres, but admirably accomplished by him in eight years. Research Paul Baudry
The argand lamp, so named after its Swiss inventor Aime Argand, is a type of lamp in which the wick is made hollow so as to admit air to both surfaces of the flame with the effect of much increasing the light and heat generated. The
Argand lamp was invented around 1782. Research Argand Lamp
AIME is an abbreviation for American Institute of Mechanical Engineers
AIME is an abbreviation for American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Research AIME
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