Japanese seismologists of the early twentieth century made a number of significant contributions to geophysics, some of which anticipated plate-tectonic theory by decades.
Italy has two such laws, neither of which anticipated the issue of Islamic dress codes: one from 1931, under Mussolini's Fascist rule, and another, enacted in 1975 when fear of the Red Brigades guerrilla group was high, forbidding disguises that mask a person's identity.
Most of the various series focus on Tom's inventions, a number of which anticipated actual inventions.
But there are also earlier works on show, many of which anticipate his arrival in America, the land of his dreams, while also reflecting his traumatic time in Germany and his loneliness in Amsterdam.
After his return from Rome, Filippino executed a fresco of the Death of Laocoön for the villa of Lorenzo de' Medici at Poggio a Caiano, in which some of the decorative devices used in the Carafa Chapel are again employed, and resumed work in the Strozzi Chapel (completed 1502), the frescoes of which anticipate Tuscan Mannerism of the 16th century.
(He had a priori arguments for the same conclusion, one of which anticipates the 'conceivability argument' discussed in Section 3 below).
On May 5th, 1852, he made a curious journal entry describing color's relationships in terms of the optics of illumination, which anticipated the eventual subversion of form by color in avant-garde painting.
The United States did not ratify it until 1882, but in 1863 President Lincoln's War Department had drawn up its own set of rules, which anticipated many of the provisions not only of Dunant's Convention but also of the revised and extended versions of 1906 and 1929.
His emphasis was on the belief in musubi (the mystical power of becoming or of creation), which had been popular in ancient Shintō, and on a this-worldly view of life, which anticipated the eternal progress of the world in ever-changing mutations.
In Charity (1874), however, Gilbert uses the freedom of the stage in a different way: to provide a tightly-written critique of the contrasting ways in which Victorian society treated men and women who had sex outside of marriage, which anticipated the 'problem plays' of Shaw and Ibsen.
The show takes pains to include his photojournalism and foresighted, noirish views of America, which anticipated Winogrand and others.
