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A Swiss mathematician who was a proponent of Leibnizian calculus.

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The François Rabelais School of Medicine

The François Rabelais School of Medicine

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Rabelais School will produce graduates who are as comfortable in the shit as they are in the stars—and understand that the pathology they observe in humanity is equally present in themselves.This medical school takes François Rabelais (c1494-1553), Franciscan monk, Bachelor of Medicine, and humanist, as its muse. Although his inspirational work Gargantua and Pantagruel celebrates his abilities as a satirist and misogynist, his role as an educationalist has been overlooked. “He was a man intoxicated by every sort of learning and theory,” according to one translator, “who, at the same time, had the earthy common sense of a peasant.”1 In an increasingly divided world, with medicine increasingly preoccupied by technical elitism, Rabelais stands as a cogent model.The Rabelais School follows the “mischievous rascal” tendency of scientific humanism, through Voltaire (“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease”) to Sir William Osler (“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine”). It acknowledges Osler as the seminal medicinal nihilist of the modern era, whose general iconoclasm and dem...

Hesiod on the Birth of the Gods

Hesiod on the Birth of the Gods

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The Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) is most famous for his works Theogony and Works and Days. In this passage from Theogony, Hesiod relates the birth of the gods from cosmic Chaos and follows the lineage through the great Zeus, King of the Olympian gods, worshipped by Hesiod's contemporaries:(ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, m...

The Place of the Nonhuman in Madame de Sévigné's Letters: Toward a Transnational Early Modern Ecocriticism

The Place of the Nonhuman in Madame de Sévigné's Letters: Toward a Transnational Early Modern Ecocriticism

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Throughout much of her long life, seventeenth-century French noblewoman Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné compulsively wrote letters. Whether she intended to be published or not, her correspondence has been read for centuries as both a canonical literary text and a goldmine of historical information about the “Grand Siècle,” an era known more for the rules governing the literary arts than for the kind of spontaneity that Sévigné's correspondence exemplifies. The marquise's letters are an irreducible hybrid, combining learned literary references and philosophical refl...

William H. Seward and the Emancipation Proclamation

William H. Seward and the Emancipation Proclamation

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William H. Seward risked his extensive political career on his conviction that all men should be free. As Governor of New York State, Seward made sure that fugitive slaves were guaranteed a trial by jury, which was passed by New York State legislature. In 1846 he defended a free black, William Freeman, who murdered four members of the Van Nest Family. Seward took on the case because he believed that Freeman was insane and concerned that Freeman would not receive a fair trial due to his race. During the trial Seward made several statements that supported the abolition movement, but one of hi...

The François Rabelais School of Medicine

Hesiod on the Birth of the Gods

The Place of the Nonhuman in Madame de Sévigné's Letters: Toward a Transnational Early Modern Ecocriticism

William H. Seward and the Emancipation Proclamation

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How Stan Lee's superheroes helped change the world

Art

How Stan Lee's superheroes helped change the world

Through Spider-Man, the X-Men and many other characters, the late Stan Lee sought to make a positive and lasting difference.It's difficult to envision what pop culture would be like without Stan Lee's prolific impact.And it's even more difficult to imagine there was a time Lee nearl...

John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism

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John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism

Love capitalism? Perhaps you believe, like Donald Trump and his coterie, that capitalism is a locus of creativity, genius, and creating wealth. Or perhaps you believe, like many Bernie Sanders supporters, that unbridled capitalism exploits the poor and the powerless.Both the blame and...

The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

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The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

Meet the original suffragette: Mary Wollstonecraft. The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on the Romantics, and an educational pioneer. In Virginia Woolf’s words, “we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the liv...