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Edmond Halley

An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist whos observation...

Jean-de-Dieu Soult

A French general who was one of six officers in French history to receive the distinction of Mar...

Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Plisetskaya

I do not like fuss. Not on stage or in life ... Superfluous words are not necessary, too.Maya Mik...

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

A Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

Pierre Bayle

French philosopher, author & lexicographer

Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Rie...

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Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell: A heroine for women

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell: A heroine for women

medicalnewstoday.com

In 1849, British-born Dr. Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, becoming the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree.“The significance [of this] cannot be overestimated, as this was a time when a woman being a physician was not the social norm,” Dr. Shelley Ross, secretary general of the the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA), told Medical News Today.Until her death in 1910, Dr. Blackwell was a strong advocate for women in medicine, spending much of her time campaigning for women’s rights and establishing institutions dedicated ...

Duties and rights in the thought of Giuseppe Mazzini

Duties and rights in the thought of Giuseppe Mazzini

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In the Mazzinian sense, duties are not commandments. Duty means dià logos, dialogue. It posits a dialectical approach that welcomes different points of view, recognizes the dignity and legitimacy of diversity, is determined to understand the reason of ‘others’ for the sake of peaceful coexistence, and to oppose institutions and governments that trample on fundamental human rights. Duties in the Mazzinian sense are ethical guidelines, to be examined and applied personally on a daily basis, keeping in mind the consequences of one's actions. This definition of duty is the premise f...

Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists

Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists

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In his Preface, Fisher writes: ‘My focus is the epistemological and scientific element of Gassendi's thought and in particular the relation between his empiricism and atomism’. His discussion will be most fully understood by the philosopher of science, but despite some discrepancy between American and British idiom (one may note the frequent occurrence of the expression ‘just in case’ in the sense, apparently, of ‘supposing only that’), the main lines of argument can be adequately followed by the ordinary historian of ideas. Fisher's own summaries and recapitulations are helpful...

Pioneers in Optics: Dominique-François-Jean Arago and Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Pioneers in Optics: Dominique-François-Jean Arago and Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Dominique-François-Jean Arago, better known simply as François Arago, was born on February 26, 1786, in Eastagel, France. A member of a political family, Arago was provided with a classical education, studying first at Perpignan and then at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1809, at the age of 23, Arago became a professor of analytical geometry at the prestigious Paris school and was subsequently made director of the Paris Observatory. Interested in a variety of scientific fields, Arago's greatest contributions were in optics, astronomy, and electromagnetism. A staunch republican, Arago ...

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Why still read Thomas Aquinas?

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Why still read Thomas Aquinas?

You could graduate today with first-class honours in divinity in most British universities knowing next to nothing about Thomas Aquinas. On the other hand, fifty years ago, in Catholic colleges and seminaries, you might have heard of no one else: an even worse state of affairs, you might think!...

The great disillusionist

Poetry

The great disillusionist

Imagine you spend your childhood almost entirely in a library, your father’s library. There are thousands upon thousands of volumes, most of them old, many in foreign languages. Your native language is Italian, but by age 10 you are reading in Latin, Greek, German and French. English and Hebrew a...

In God They Trust

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In God They Trust

A small group of colonies manages to break away from a large empire in the closing years of the 18th century. The resulting state would probably be not much more than the Chile of the Northeast—a long littoral ribbon between the mountains and the ocean—if it were not for the imperial rivalries th...