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Nicolas Poussin

From an art-historical point of view, the period of the July Monarchy was especially important for the emergence of the so-called Ecole de 1830, or School of 1830, the young generation of artists—including Louis Cabat (1812-1893), Camille Corot (1796-1873), Adrien Dauzats (1804-1868), Narcisse Diaz (1807-1876), Jules Dupre (1811-1889), Camille Flers (1802-1869), Paul Huet (1803-1869), Eugene Isabey (1803-1886), and Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867)—who reached maturity by the beginning of the July Monarchy. These artists altered the course of landscape painting in France by abandoning both the rule-bound classical landscape that had dominated French landscape art since its introduction by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain in the seventeenth century and the colorful romantic-picturesque topographic landscape imported by British watercolorists in the Restoration period, to turn instead to the depiction of the natural landscape.

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Margaret Fuller

An American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with t...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

An Indian-American astrophysicist who spent his professional life in the United States.

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

A British novelist, author and illustrator known for his1848 novel Vanity Fair and the 1844 novel...

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of hi...

Diagoras of Melos

Diagoras of Melos

A Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC who allegedly chopped up a wooden statue of Heracl...

Herman Boerhaave

Herman Boerhaave

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician referred to as "the father of physiology".

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Charles Dickens: Six things he gave the modern world

Charles Dickens: Six things he gave the modern world

With the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens quickly approaching, and an entire series of events planned, what is the lasting legacy of his work and his causes?Charles Dickens is one of the most important writers of the 19th Century. But his influence goes far beyond just literature. Many of his phrases, characters and ideas have engrained themselves in modern culture.Two centuries on, what are the things still seen today that Dickens first offered us in his writing?...

Hennig Brandt and the Discovery of Phosphorus

Hennig Brandt and the Discovery of Phosphorus

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One night in 1669 German physician Hennig Brandt attempted to create the philosophers’ stone. This elusive goal had been pursued by alchemists for centuries for good reason: it could transform base metals into gold.Brandt had spent most of that day in his laboratory, heating a mixture of sand and charcoal with a tar-like substance produced by boiling down about 1,200 gallons of urine over two weeks. He then maintained the mixture at the highest temperature his furnace could reach. After many hours a white vapor formed and condensed into thick drops that gleamed brightly for hours. Th...

Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694): Pioneer of microscopic anatomy and exponent of the scientific revolution of the 17 th Century

Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694): Pioneer of microscopic anatomy and exponent of the scientific revolution of the 17 th Century

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Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) was an Italian anatomist and an eminent scientist who significantly contributed to the advancement of the anatomical sciences in the 17 th century. Malpighi was one of the first to use the compound microscope (an instrument designed by Galileo in 1609) and made the most important discovery of his life in 1661 when he identified capillaries as connecting vessels between small arteries and veins in the lungs. Malpighi thus provided the missing link in William Harvey's theory of blood circulation. He made significant contributions in the field of embry...

Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize and the academic evaluation system in China

Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize and the academic evaluation system in China

Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old, female scientist from China, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of artemisinin, which is used in the treatment of malaria. She was the first Chinese biologist in China to win this international, high-level award. However, she is regarded as a “three nos” professor (a professor with no doctorate, no background of studying abroad, and no membership in any Chinese national academies) and has never won a domestic prize, which means that, to some extent, she is not acknowledged by the mainstream Chinese academic society.Nowadays...

Charles Dickens: Six things he gave the modern world

Hennig Brandt and the Discovery of Phosphorus

Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694): Pioneer of microscopic anatomy and exponent of the scientific revolution of the 17 th Century

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Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?

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Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?

Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in the musical scale. His friend and sometime collaborator Adolfo Bioy Casares called his writings “halfway houses between an essay and a story”. They are fictions filled with ...

Cardinal Richelieu: the Power behind the State

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Cardinal Richelieu: the Power behind the State

Cardinal Richelieu was one of the most famous government ministers in French history. Chief minister to Louis XIII, he set up many well-known systems and institutions and paved the way for the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV.He was born on Sept. 9, 1585, in Paris. His name at birth was Arma...

Martyr for mythicism: Rev. Robert Taylor

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Martyr for mythicism: Rev. Robert Taylor

When the Church of England’s Rev. Robert Taylor (1784-1844) began preaching Bible mythicism – the view that significant biblical figures are mythical, not historical – from his popular pulpit during the 1820s, he was subjected to a sustained campaign of abuse that last...