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Maurice Hilleman

A leading American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, ...

Shahriar Afshar

An Iranian-American physicist and multiple award-winning inventor known for devising and carrying...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini

An Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer.

Gottlob Frege

A genius German philosopher, logician, and mathematician who is considered to be the father of an...

Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis

It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differentia...

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Science: The Concept of Nature in the Thought of John Philoponus

Science: The Concept of Nature in the Thought of John Philoponus

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Take the concept associated with the term ‘Israel’. It means different things to different people, even in the Biblical World. It signifies differently to different peoples in various epochs in the history of the biblical World. At Fuller Theological Seminary, the Bible scholar William Sanford LaSor, in his book entitled Israel, explored the meaning of this term across the epochs of the Biblical history with some sense of its mystery in its times and spaces in the history of the world. As a concept, the term possessed various significations across different centuries in a number of diverse ...

Copernicus Unearthed

Copernicus Unearthed

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Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in obscurity in 1543 and was buried in an unmarked grave. Five centuries later, archaeologists say they have located his long-sought resting place, under the marble floor tiles of a church.In a sense, the search for Copernicus’ grave always led down the narrow cobblestone road into Frombork, a sleepy Polish town of about 2,500 on the Baltic coast where Copernicus lived and worked. The Frombork Cath...

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

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On the banks of River Kennett, Wiltshire, sits an Elizabethan country house. You might know Littlecote if you enjoy fly fishing or, if you’re interested in civil war re-enactments – it possesses a unique Cromwellian Chapel and an outstanding Roundhead armoury. Above all, however, Littlecote is known for the many mysteries that shroud it: colourful ghost sightings, a cursed elm tree, tales of tragedies and many puzzling local legends inflect its knotty history.One such legend, that of Littlecote’s Dutch parlour, is widely considered true. The ceiling and wood-panelled walls of this room are covered in paintings believed to be the work of Dutch sailors, captured and held at Littlecote during the second Anglo-Dutch war (1665-67).It’s an intriguing story, but one that didn’t sit quite right with me when I first caught a glimpse of the wonderful room in a grainy photograph in the 1990s. I let those thoughts fall to the back of my mind until I visited Littlecote in 2020 and was once again puzzled by the style and date of the paintings. I had a hunch that the true story of the Dutch parlour paintings was far more impressive and important than the accepted origin legend of...

Meet William James Sidis: The Smartest Guy Ever?

Meet William James Sidis: The Smartest Guy Ever?

Long before the "Tiger Mother" phenomenon, around 1910, a man named Boris Sidis was touting his child-rearing methods.To those who knew of his son, William James Sidis was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived.A Child ProdigyBorn in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made the headlines in the early 20th century as a child prodigy with an amazing intellect....

Science: The Concept of Nature in the Thought of John Philoponus

Copernicus Unearthed

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

Meet William James Sidis: The Smartest Guy Ever?

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Reassessing Victor Cousin’s Contribution to Transcendentalism

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Reassessing Victor Cousin’s Contribution to Transcendentalism

As Perry Miller pointed out over sixty years ago in his classic anthology The Transcendentalists (1950), French philosopher Victor Cousin played a crucial role in the emergence of Transcendentalism. With the American publication of his Introduction to the History of Philosophy (1832) and his crit...

How Kandinsky helped create abstract art

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How Kandinsky helped create abstract art

Facts within art history aren’t always as solidly verifiable as we would like them to be. Can we say with certainty that Wassily Kandinsky, born on this day, 16 December, in 1866, was the first abstract painter? The artist, honoured today with a Google Doodle, was certainly a pioneer, but humans ...

Mary Somerville’s vision of science

Science

Mary Somerville’s vision of science

In 1834 mathematician and author Mary Somerville published On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, a work that was instrumental in the making of modern physics as a discipline. Contemporaries praised the book’s clear and lucid survey of astronomy, experimental physics, and chemistry, and it be...

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