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John Herschel

An English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, an experimental photographer w...

Xenophon

An Athenian-born military leader, philosopher, and historian.

Alfred Wegener

A German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.

Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Alfieri

An Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."

Rachel Carson

An American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose writings are credited with advanc...

Gregor Mendel

A meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar who gained posthumous recognition as...

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What Makes a Genius?

What Makes a Genius?

nationalgeographic.com

Some minds are so exceptional they change the world. We don’t know exactly why these people soar above the rest of us, but science offers us clues. ...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: IMPACT AND LEGACY

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: IMPACT AND LEGACY

millercenter.org

Theodore Roosevelt is widely regarded as the first modern President of the United States. The stature and influence that the office has today began to develop with TR. Throughout the second half of the 1800s, Congress had been the most powerful branch of government. And although the presidency began to amass more power during the 1880s, Roosevelt completed the transition to a strong, effective executive. He made the President, rather than the political parties or Congress, the center of American politics.Roosevelt did this through the force of his personality and through aggressive e...

Did Francis Drake Really Land in California?

Did Francis Drake Really Land in California?

smithsonianmag.com

Few sea voyages are as famous as that of the Golden Hind, privateer Francis Drake’s around-the-world voyage that ended with his arrival into England’s Plymouth harbor in 1580. Along with being a remarkable feat of seamanship, the world’s second circumnavigation, among other achievements, was the first to map large portions of North America’s western coast. Filling the Hind’s hold as it berthed in Plymouth were a half-ton of gold, more than two-dozen tons of silver, and thousands of c...

And John Napier created logarithms

And John Napier created logarithms

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The Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio which Napier published in 1614 tabulates this ‘marvellous measure of ratio-numbers’ to 7 places, giving the ‘Napierian’ logarithms (we would now say) of the sines of angles from 0 to 90, and in a wealth of worked examples displays how these may be applied to reduce to the equivalent additions and subtractions the lengthy multiplications and divisions necessary in problems of plane and spherical trigonometry. The book had a short-lived heyday: one abruptly ended just ten years later when Henry Briggs brought out his 14-place table of common logarithms (these computed by a different and more powerful method).It is well known that the last places in Napier’s table are not to be trusted. And no one after 1624 would dream of constructing logarithms his way (which was not just by computing powers of... Why then make so much fuss over his discovery if in fact he no more invented our logarithms than Logie Baird the TV cathode-ray tube?...

What Makes a Genius?

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: IMPACT AND LEGACY

Did Francis Drake Really Land in California?

And John Napier created logarithms

Ludwig Boltzmann

Commentary: The birth of the twin study—a commentary on Francis Galton’s ‘The History of Twins’

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Commentary: The birth of the twin study—a commentary on Francis Galton’s ‘The History of Twins’

In 1875, the English scientist Francis Galton published an article entitled ‘The History of Twins’. Now little remembered, it nonetheless has considerable historical significance. This 137-year-old paper, reproduced in this volume, represents the first detailed attempt to use the phenomenon of tw...

Treffert column: The miracle of Leslie Lemke

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Treffert column: The miracle of Leslie Lemke

Sometimes I am asked of all the savants I have had the privilege of meeting, who is my favorite? That’s like asking who is your favorite son or daughter.Each savant is remarkable and special in his or her own way and it would be difficult to name one favorite.But certainly the savan...

Young Israeli makes impressive debut at Miami Piano Festival

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Young Israeli makes impressive debut at Miami Piano Festival

Some artists select safe programs for debut recitals but the 21-year-old Israeli pianist Ariel Lanyi opted for more daring choices in his South Florida bow Sunday night at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach, presented by the Miami International Piano Festival. Masterworks by Haydn and Beethoven we...