SS St Petersburg SS St Petersburg TrSS "St Petersburg" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1910. "St Petersburg" was built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1910. She was launched by Miss Green, daughter of Frederick Green, director of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was placed on the Harwich-to-Hook of Holland route. "St Petersburg" was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the First World War and renamed Archangel in 1916. She was used as a cross-channel troopship. After the war "Archangel" returned to railway ownership, and in
History of aesthetics before the 20th century refers to Greek philosophers as the earliest source of formal aesthetic considerations. Plato believed in beauty as a "form" in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful. He felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts. Similarly, in the "Metaphysics", Aristotle found that the universal elements of beauty were order, symmetry, and definiteness. From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism. German and British thinkers emphasized beauty as the key component of art and of the aesthetic experience, and