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Athanasius Kircher

A German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works.

James Croll

A Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth'...

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge

An English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who made numerous trips to Egypt and the Su...

Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer who was a mentor of Mozart, a tutor of Beethoven, and the older brother of Mic...

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational math...

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

An English-language Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-c...

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A paradigm shift in George Berkeley's philosophy 1707-1709

A paradigm shift in George Berkeley's philosophy 1707-1709

I could wish that all the things I have published on these philosophical subjects were read in the order wherein I published them [...] to take in the design and connection of them,” George Berkeley wrote to his American friends.  He had three works in mind: the Theory of Vision, the Principles, and the Three Dialogues. My suggestion about the “connection of them” is that he uses the analytical method in the Theory of Vision (as he actually says that he did) and that he presents the synthesis in the two other books. “Analysis” and “synthesis” are here taken in the old sense, acc...

Leucippus's atomism

Leucippus's atomism

The founder of atomic theory, according to Aristotle and Theophrastus, is Leucippus. His very existence has been called into question. Three of the best minds of nineteenth-century scholarship were embroiled in a vehement debate on this question, which thereupon became a cause célèbre, with scholars weighing in on both sides for the next half-century. Ultimately this debate seems to have ended in stalemate and exhaustion rather than in any clear-cut decision. After briefly reviewing the debate, this article argues that there are indications of an atomic theory different from Dem...

Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic

Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic

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People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a cliché. It is less a real thing than a story that people, and nations, tell themselves about themselves. I am from the United States but now live in Amsterdam; the Dutch often claim the mantle of an industrious, Apollonian Northern Europe, as distinct from a dissolute, Dionysian, imaginary South. Or the Dutch invoke the Protestant ethic with self-deprecating smugness: Alas, we are so productive....

Was Pyrrho a Pyrrhonian?

Was Pyrrho a Pyrrhonian?

This paper attempts a reconstruction of the views of Pyrrho of Elis. Many recent commentators, most notably Richard Bett, have made Pyrrho out toa metaphysical dogmatist who thinks the world is fundamentally indeterminate. Despite some criticisms of this view by Brennan and others, this metaphysical reading has continued to gain adherents. But there are serious textual and logical problems with these dogmatic interpretations. According to the evidence we have, a better view is that Pyrrho was an agnostic skeptic, i.e. one who refused to make assertions about the world outside of...

A paradigm shift in George Berkeley's philosophy 1707-1709

Leucippus's atomism

Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic

Was Pyrrho a Pyrrhonian?

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Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America

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Alfred M. Mayer and Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century America

Througout the nineteenth century, acoustics or the science of sound in America lagged behind European acoustics which had been rapidly advancing. During this period, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer made original contributions to acoustics and earned a reputation in Europe, filling a gap in...

THE VIETNAM SYNDROME

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THE VIETNAM SYNDROME

To be writing these words is, for me, to undergo the severest test of my core belief—that sentences can be more powerful than pictures. A writer can hope to do what a photographer cannot: convey how things smelled and sounded as well as how things looked. I seriously doubt my ability to perform t...

7 YEAR OLD SURGEON IS IN PURSUIT TO ACHIEVE A GOAL THAT WILL CURE THE TWO DEADLIEST DISEASES

Medicine

7 YEAR OLD SURGEON IS IN PURSUIT TO ACHIEVE A GOAL THAT WILL CURE THE TWO DEADLIEST DISEASES

A seven-year-old is capable of many things like doing chores around the house or the basics like learning to read. They let their imagination run wild and spend their days pretending the swing set is a pirate’s ship. Most seven-year-old children would even color outside the lines and wonder why t...

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