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Wilhelm von Humboldt
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
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Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
An English natural philosopher who discovered nitrogen
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A German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer, best known for his...
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Wayne Gretzky
A Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach.
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Stephen Jay Gould
An American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
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The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

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THE CULTURAL shift in attitudes toward risk in the 1850s—specifically, the emergent need to avoid risk—is marked by the passage of limited-liability legislation such as the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856 and the continuing rise of the insurance industry.1 Individual investors were no longer required to bear the losses of corporate failure, while insurance companies relied on the aggregation of both capital and information to calculate and compensate risk for the individual. Risk was to be managed by an impersonal collective in order to protect the individual from bearing any ...

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The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”
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The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”
When Allan Cunningham concluded his 1834 Life of Burns with this critical judgement of Robert Burns’s poetry he was in fact summing up the schizophrenic nature of the Scottish character and identity. Scottish duality is still prevalent in the Highland-Lowland...
Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
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Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
William Thomson, who became Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a physicist, mathematician, and scientist whose achievements, discoveries and inventions have left their mark on the world to this very day. He had successes in everything from thermodynamics to telegraphy! The superlatives that are used to d...
The impact of Al-Battani on European Astronomy
Astronomy
The impact of Al-Battani on European Astronomy
Astronomical observation in Islamic times reached beyond what much of scholarship gives it credit for. Many aspects of it were pioneering as can be observed from few extracts on the life and works of al-Battani by Carra de Vaux. The merit of al-Battani, the De Vaux points out, is to pioneer the u...
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