disseminate
(verb)
To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed
Examples of disseminate in the following topics:
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Philosophy and Science
- According to Diderot, the purpose of the Encyclopedie was to disseminate knowledge to all of society and future generations, and in this way "change the way people think. " Thousands of copies were sold, many outside of France, as the new intellectual class migrated across Europe.
- Print culture expanded during this time, popularizing and disseminating information to societies throughout Europe and the American colonies.
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Museums and Private Collections
- The majority of significant museums were opened to the public in the 18th century, or the Enlightenment era, a time known for its pursuit and dissemination of knowledge throughout society.
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The Todaiji
- Appropriately, the main Buddha hall, or Daibutsuden, was enshrined with the Rushana Buddha, a 16.2-meter (53-foot) Buddha completed in 752 that represents the essence of Buddhahood, just as the Tōdaiji represented the center for imperially-sponsored Buddhism and its dissemination throughout Japan.
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Renaissance Painting After Masaccio
- His Flagellation of Christ demonstrates his mastery over linear perspective and his knowledge of how light is proportionally disseminated from its point of origin.
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Machu Picchu
- They disseminated this skill, along with standard shapes and patterns, throughout their area of influence.
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The East
- Spectacular edifices erected by Timur and his successors helped to disseminate the influence of the Ilkhanid school of art in India, thus giving rise to the celebrated Mughal school of architecture.
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Rembrandt
- In 1626, Rembrandt produced his first etchings, the wide dissemination of which would largely account for his international fame.
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Architecture in Early South America
- While the fairly large population was based on an agricultural economy, the city's location at the headwaters of the Marañn River, between the coast and the jungle, made it an ideal location for the dissemination and collection of both ideas and material goods.
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Italian Architecture in the Baroque Period
- Fontana's academic approach, though lacking the dazzling inventiveness of his Roman predecessors, exerted substantial influence on Baroque architecture both through his prolific writings and through the number of architects he trained, who would disseminate the Baroque idioms throughout 18th-century Europe.
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Modern Chinese Painting
- Propaganda art in posters was used as a campaigning tool and mass communication device, produced in large number and widely disseminated.