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Ruslan Ponomariov

A Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004.

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

A United States Army general who led all coalition forces in the Gulf War.

Karl Marx

A German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socia...

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A French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who invented analytical geometry.

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An Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic...

Akiane Kramarik

Akiane Kramarik

An American poet and painter who started drawing at the age of four.

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Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the Passing of Tudor Literature

Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the Passing of Tudor Literature

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This famous stanza from the proem to book 2 of The Faerie Queene announces Spenser's conception for his whole work. It is to be a ‘mirrhour’, not only for Elizabeth but for her ‘realmes’, England (including Wales in this period) and Ireland; and furthermore, through the ‘antique Image’ presented in the poem, it will reflect all that has made the contemporary nation what it is. He creates it, in other words, not just as England's national epic, but as an anatomy of the nation for his own times and in the light of how that present has come into being. He will present its own (p. 750) ‘auncest...

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Part of what makes Stoicism fascinating to study is that three of its most well-known practitioners ranged widely in terms of where they stood in society. Think of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire holding one of the most powerful positions in the world. Think of Seneca, who was an adviser to an emperor, renowned playwright and one of the richest people in the Roman Empire. And then there is Epictetus, on the complete opposite, who was born as a slave. That’s what makes Stoicism so powerful: it can provide timeless principles to help us in both good and bad fortune, no matter...

Reflections on the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reflections on the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Charles Lamb once said to Samuel Taylor Coleridge “You are one of Fortune’s Ne’er-do-wells” (Collected Letters V, 509). Lamb had missed a good occasion to govern his tongue. True, this was one of those pleasantries between schoolfellows Lamb and Coleridge having undergone together the rigours of Christ’s Hospital. Perhaps it was also an expression of sympathy for Coleridge’s bad luck when each of his publications, whether poetical, philosophical, or journalistic, very regularly encountered a hostile critical reception. Yet, rather paradoxically, with the exception of a few profe...

Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

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In 1681, French-born Denis Papin made a unique discovery after an unfortunate accident with a pressure cooker. Papin’s attempts to extract fat from animal bones in a steam induced high-pressured container were a failure when the vessel exploded. However, before the unfortunate termination of his experiment, Papin had observed how the steam raised the lid of his pot. It was the inspiration Papin needed to conceive a prototype steam driven piston. Papin’s experiment in its turn formed in 1705, the basis for Thomas Savoy’s steam engine, which played such a vital role in the early industrial revolution.Papin’s chance invention, however, was not the first steam engine. The ancient Greeks had already been playing around with the uses of steam from the fourth century BC. However, the invention of the first steam-propelled mechanism, the aeolipile, dates to the first century BC and can be credited to Hero of Alexandria, an Alexandrian scientist and inventor. Although classical scientists never fully explored the potential of Hero’s aeolipile in ancient times, its technology may have informed steam-based technology even before Papin’s time....

Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the Passing of Tudor Literature

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Reflections on the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hero of Alexandria Changed the World with this Invention Much Earlier than Many Thought

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Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919): The German Darwin and his impact on modern biology

Biology

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919): The German Darwin and his impact on modern biology

The German biologist and artist Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834–1919) (Fig. 1) was a key figure during the early years of the “First Darwinian revolution”, a time period when the foundation for the development of our modern evolutionary view of the biosphere was laid. Born 16 Feb...

Lord Byron, 19th-century bad boy

Poetry

Lord Byron, 19th-century bad boy

The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this ‘craving void’ which drives us to Gaming – to Battle – to Travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principle attraction is the agitation inseparable from...

Introduction to IDTC Special Issue

Physics

Introduction to IDTC Special Issue

James Prescott Joule’s (1818–1889) bicentenary took place in 2018 and commemorated by the IDTC with a Symposium—‘James Joule’s Bicentenary: Scientific and Pedagogical Issues Concerning Energy Conservation’—at the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS & BSHS), 14th–17th September, ...