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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

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James Hutton

A Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician.

Charles Dickens

An English writer and social critic.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

Xenophanes

A Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of religious polytheism.

Anaxagoras

Ancient Greek philosopher

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Franz Kafka papers lost in Europe but reunited in Jerusalem

Franz Kafka papers lost in Europe but reunited in Jerusalem

A "Kafkaesque" 11-year fight to bring together acclaimed Czech author Franz Kafka's papers has come to an end after the last batch arrived in Israel.The National Library unveiled the documents after years of international searches and legal disputes.It was left the collection in 1968 by Max Brod, the friend who Kafka had trusted to burn his writings after his death in the 1920s....

The Metamorphosis of a Poet: Recent Work on Ovid

The Metamorphosis of a Poet: Recent Work on Ovid

It is by now obvious that Ovidian studies have ‘arrived’, apologies are no longer issued, nor are defences launched at the beginning of books. The nineties alone have seen so far the appearance of over fifty new books on Ovid in English, French, Italian, and German, and not just on the Metamorphoses, but on the Fasti, the Amores and Ars Amatoria, and the exile poetry, including the little known Ibis. Most importantly, there is a flourishing growth industry in commentaries on all of Ovid's works, with a greatly anticipated forthcoming commentary from Italy on the Metamorphoses authored by an...

Lucretius's Anticipation of Mendelism

Lucretius's Anticipation of Mendelism

IN his review of the new edition of Munro's translation of Lucretius, in NATURE for April 14, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson refers to the many scientific ‘anticipations’ that are to be found in that wonderful poem, which has fossilised, so to speak, some fragments of the lost world of ancient wisdom. I have never seen any mention made of a passage in the “De Rerum Natura” in which the three fundamental postulates of Mendelism are laid down as the rules of heredity, and I think it deserves to have attention directed to it....

William Gilbert: forgotten genius

William Gilbert: forgotten genius

physicsworld.com

When William Gilbert of Colchester died on 30 November 1603, England lost one of its greatest Elizabethan scientists. Three years earlier he had published a book called De Magnete, which was nothing less than the first ever work of experimental physics. Its fuller title, translated from the original Latin, was On the Magnet, Magnetic Bodies and that Great Magnet the Earth. In 1651 a collection of Gilbert’s manuscripts, which had been edited by his half brother, was posthumously published. Going under the title De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova, the book provided “a new ...

Franz Kafka papers lost in Europe but reunited in Jerusalem

The Metamorphosis of a Poet: Recent Work on Ovid

Lucretius's Anticipation of Mendelism

William Gilbert: forgotten genius

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The Silent Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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The Silent Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

This year is the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth. His life was strongly affected by an important health problem: hearing loss. The composer first became aware of his sensorial deficit at the age of 26. From his correspondence emerges that Beethoven suffered from a progressive an...

The editors and editions of the writings of Évariste Galois

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The editors and editions of the writings of Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois (1811–1832), who died on 31 May 1832, shot in a mysterious early-morning duel the previous day, was described by one of his biographers as a ‘Révolutionnaire et Géomètre’ [Dalmas, 1956]. As a republican and revolutionary he was passionate but not a great success. He was, however, ...

An interview with the Scorpion: Walter O’Brien

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An interview with the Scorpion: Walter O’Brien

An interview with Walter O'Brien (hacker handle: "Scorpion"), known as a businessman, information technologist, executive producer, and media personality who is the founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services, Inc. O'Brien is also the inspiration for and executive producer of the CBS television...