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A Greek pre-Socratic philosopher best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four cla...

Adolphe Thiers

A French statesman and historian.

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A French naturalist who was one of the first to propose that biological evolution occurred and pr...

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Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian

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An Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity who is credited as the inventor of the ...

Claude Monet

French painter and the founder of the French Impressionist painting movement

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Adolphe Quetelet, the average man and the development of economic methodology

Adolphe Quetelet, the average man and the development of economic methodology

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Quetelet's contribution to statistics has received adequate attention in Stigler (1986, 1999) and Porter's (1986) seminal works on the history of that scientific discipline. 24 Our contribution investigates Quetelet's influence on economic methodology. Other scholars have already investigated his influence on econometrics and empirical economics (Morgan 1990, Stigler 1999), but we argue that his influence on theoretical economics should be considered significant as well. We devote attention to Quetelet's concept of the ‘average man’. For this purpose we briefly summarize Quetele...

George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society

George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society

A woman sits engrossed in her reading, long hair hanging loose at her shoulders, feet slung over the arm of a chair. However you imagine George Eliot, it’s probably not like this. The few existing portraits of the novelist fix her in an era far removed from our own, conveying an ethereal gravity that jives with the reverential image peddled after her death in 1880. It was thanks largely to a capacious biography by her financial advisor and, briefly, husband, John Cross that Eliot came to be posthumously lauded as what literary biographer Lyndall Gordon dubs a “wise angel”, one whose shadow would for a long time obscure the earthier, more radical aspects of her personality and experience. Yet for her fellow writer and sometime housemate, William Hale White, she remained fixed in his memory as the kind of woman who thought nothing of assuming that most un-Victorian of poses. “She was really one of the most sceptical, unusual creatures I ever knew,” he recalled, describing her sitting in this way and calling her an “insurgent” writer.On the bicentenary of her birth, White’s impressions serve as a reminder that while her novels are enduringly essential, certain as...

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 re...

The Sununu Family And Climate Change Over The Years

The Sununu Family And Climate Change Over The Years

Governor Chris Sununu comes from one of New Hampshire's most prominent political families. His father, John H. Sununu, served as governor and later as chief of staff for former President George H.W. Bush. His brother, John E. Sununu, served as a U.S. congressman and senator. In the latest episode of Outside/In, a podcast about the outdoors, NHPR's Annie Ropeik and Sam Evans-Brown track the Republican Party's views on climate change over the years through the lens of this one political family.Peter Biello, host of All Things Considered at NHPR, spoke with Annie and Sam about their rep...

Adolphe Quetelet, the average man and the development of economic methodology

George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society

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

The Sununu Family And Climate Change Over The Years

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William Robertson’s Unfinished History of America

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William Robertson’s Unfinished History of America

Historian and clergyman William Robertson never completed his history of British America. His initial project, that of glorifying the power of the British Empire, no longer made sense when the Thirteen Colonies became independent. This paper analyses the reasons why Robertson nevertheless preserv...

Alpha Particles and the Atom

Physics

Alpha Particles and the Atom

Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the atom in 1911. We read this in textbooks and in popular writings. But what does that statement mean? Geographical discovery usually means that one sees a place for the first time. But can discovery be the same for a realm hidden from sight? One canno...

Who is Satyendra Nath Bose?

Physics

Who is Satyendra Nath Bose?

Satyendra Nath Bose was one of the world’s pioneering theoretical, widely called the ‘Father of the God Particle’ for his work on the Boson, a class of particles named after him because they obey Bose–Einstein statistics. His work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s laid the foundation f...