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Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who made fundamental contri...

Al-Battani

A Syrian Arab astronomer, and mathematician.

Eratosthenes

A Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was the chief librari...

Akhenaten

A 18th Dynasty pharaoh

Vilna Gaon

A Talmudist, Halakhist, and Kabbalist who encouraged his students to study natural sciences, and ...

Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat

A French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calcu...

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Auguste Rodin Working Methods

Auguste Rodin Working Methods

Rodin's working methods combined a passionate response to the human body, and a delight in free, spontaneous drawing and modelling, with tight control over a large productive workshop.Although his approach was in some ways radical and idiosyncratic, it was also formed by his early training, which took place in commercial studios rather than the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. This removed him from the rigid approach to the making of sculpture imposed by the French art establishment. The years that he spent in the highly organised workshop of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1864-70) underp...

What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook

What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook

With the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's voyage to Australia, it is time to brush up on the history of our nation's most famous naval explorer.He's the one that discovered Australia, right?No.The idea that Cook discovered Australia has long been debunked, and was debated as recently as 2017 when Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant pointed to an inscription on statue in Sydney's Hyde Park....

Personal Identity in Samuel Clarke

Personal Identity in Samuel Clarke

Personal Identity in Samuel Clarke HOWARD M. DUCHARME DR. SAMUEL CLARKE (1675--1729) was a highly esteemed proponent of Newtonian physics, and a philosopher and theologian who was considered by many in his time to be the intellectual successor to John Locke. He translated Rohault's Physics 0697 ) and Newton's Opticks (17o6) and debated his continental counterpart in the now classic controversy, The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (17t7). His Demonstration (x7o5) of the existence of God is still studied today and his Discourse (17o6) on moral obligation makes him the principal modern formulato...

Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature

Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature

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From a convent in New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz became one of the leading lights of the Spanish Baroque’s golden age. A scholar, poet, playwright, philosopher, and composer, in her lifetime Sor Juana (1648-1695) was known as the Tenth Muse and the Phoenix of America. Condemned by the male hierarchy of the Catholic Church, she has since become a Hispanic/Chicana/Latina feminist icon and a founding mother of Mexican literature.Sure, she was brilliant and multilingual, writing in Latin and Nahuatl, but how did she do all this from inside a cloister? Good prep work, evidently. Bef...

Auguste Rodin Working Methods

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Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature

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Ludwig Tieck's “Der Blonde Eckbert”: A Psychological Reading

Poetry

Ludwig Tieck's “Der Blonde Eckbert”: A Psychological Reading

Bertha's warning to Walther that her narrative not be taken for a Mdrchen provides a clue to an “intrinsic” Freudian psychological reading of “Eckbert,” a work which, like a dream or a fairy tale, has a “latent” as well as a “manifest” level. Bertha's narration is interspersed with compulsive con...

icero and the Opinion of the People: The Nature, Role and Power of Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic

Politics

icero and the Opinion of the People: The Nature, Role and Power of Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic

This article deals with the concept of public opinion in the life and works of the Roman orator, philosopher and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC). It is conceptualized as a contribution to the historiography of public opinion theory. The basis for the analysis of Cicero’s body of thou...

How we made the microprocessor

Technology

How we made the microprocessor

Computers were, at first, a decidedly unintegrated technology. They were composed of vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors, inductors and mercury delay lines, and as a result were huge, expensive and power hungry. The situation improved with developments in microelectronics based on solid-state ger...