Geniuses

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

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David Strauss

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Giacomo Casanova

An Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice known for his work Histoire de ma vi...

John Burroughs

An American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.

Callimachus

Architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Paolo Sarpi

A Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, and statesman active on behalf of the Ven...

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

A French chemist and physicist who discovered that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one pa...

Michael Kearney

Michael Kearney

An American college professor and game show contestant. He is known for setting several world rec...

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The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

royalsocietypublishing.org

Discussions of the Crimean War (1853–56) often emphasize its leaders’ military and political incompetence and logistic failures, which led to heavy losses both on the battlefield and to disease. This portrayal ignores the significant entrepreneurial and technological novelties that emerged from the war. Begun and fought for the most part along traditional lines, the Crimean War became a stage for the display of innovative technologies ranging from telegraphy to photography, railways to steamships, and ironclads to sanitary hospitals. It became a business opportunity for entrepre...

Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most. In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters. This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought.He took pride instead in advancing the ideas that (1) nature produced successively all the different forms of life on earth, and (2) environmentally induced behavioral changes lead the way in species change. This article s...

Leslie Howard on two-piano concerts, playing in India and being the only person to record the entire works of Liszt

Leslie Howard on two-piano concerts, playing in India and being the only person to record the entire works of Liszt

The notes were woven together seamlessly, layers of harmony taking shape as eminent pianists Dr Leslie Howard and Ludovico Troncanetti played on two pianos at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai on 5 April. The sound that the pair creates together is akin to a cloth made of two different but equally beautiful fabrics: They intermesh to create layers that ultimately materialise into a comprehensive whole.The duo has played together on numerous occasions and in various formats, and sound absolutely flawless. So it was no surprise when, at the end of their perf...

Claude Bernard, the first systems biologist, and the future of physiology

Claude Bernard, the first systems biologist, and the future of physiology

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Claude Bernard was Sir William Paton's great physiological hero. When the Physiological Society celebrated its centenary in 1976, Bill contributed a paper to the historical part of the meeting concerning one of Bernard's experiments on curare and drawing attention to the important role his ideas played in the foundation of the Society in 1876 (Paton, 1976). The reasons for his admiration of Claude Bernard are not hard to find. Bernard was a superb experimentalist, as the history of his work on digestion shows (Holmes, 1974). He also displayed his skills in many other areas of physiology and he laid out the principles of his science in his highly influential Introduction à l'étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (Bernard, 1865, 1984), in which he revealed himself to be a great thinker as well as a great experimentalist. The theoretical problem he addressed is one that is very relevant both to my claim that he was the first systems biologist and to the challenge that physiology faces today.What was Claude Bernard's problem? It was that the chemists had created ‘organic’ molecules. This was a major development, since people had thought since Lémery'sCours de Chymie (published i...

The Crimean War as a technological enterprise

Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

Leslie Howard on two-piano concerts, playing in India and being the only person to record the entire works of Liszt

Claude Bernard, the first systems biologist, and the future of physiology

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Joachim Murat. Hero who became a traitor

War

Joachim Murat. Hero who became a traitor

In a previous article, dubbed "Two" Gasconades "of Joachim Murat", we talked a little about this Napoleonic marshal and his exploits during the 1805 military campaign. The fearless warrior, the “genius of cavalry attacks”, was the youngest and eleventh child in a poor provincial family (his mothe...

God, king, and geometry: revisiting the introduction to Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse

Mathematics

God, king, and geometry: revisiting the introduction to Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse

This article offers a systematic reading of the introduction to Augustin-Louis Cauchy’s landmark 1821 mathematical textbook, the Cours d’analyse. Despite its emblematic status in the history of mathematical analysis and, indeed, of modern mathematics as a whole, Cauchy’s introduction has been mor...

ELIZABETH I: THE VIRGIN QUEEN?

Politics

ELIZABETH I: THE VIRGIN QUEEN?

I have given many talks on the Tudors over the years, and the question that I am asked far more than any other is: 'Was Elizabeth I really a virgin?' It seems as inconceivable to us as it did to those living at the time that this flirtatious queen, who loved to surround herself with handsome youn...