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Gaius Lucilius

The earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain

Theodore Maiman

An American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Military & statesman genius. The First Emperor of the French people

Charles Darwin

An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science o...

Sappho

An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung wh...

Rudolf Virchow

A German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and pol...

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Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?

Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?

Who printed the Gutenberg Bible? It sounds like a Groucho Marx joke, of the "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" variety. But the story behind the invention of the printing press, and the first book ever printed, is riddled with intrigue, subterfuge, and mystery. Let's start by finding out more about who Gutenberg really was.For one thing, Johannes Gutenberg was not a nice person. He was secretive and paranoid. He peddled strange and wacky schemes and was always trying to borrow money. Based on what few public records exist concerning his early adulthood, he could easily fit today's well-known stereotype of the entrepreneur con man: Ready to paint glorious pictures of the things he could create, if only you front him some cash.He was sued by business partners. He was sued by creditors. He was sued for back tax money. In 1436, he was sued by a woman for "a breach of promise." These are the most concrete records that can be found for most of Gutenberg's adult life....

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

thegospelcoalition.org

Today marks the 400th birthday of Richard Baxter. It’s impossible to measure the influence of this English Puritan over four centuries. His works remain in print and are widely read, which shouldn’t surprise us. J. I. Packer considers him “the most outstanding pastor, evangelist, and writer on practical and devotional themes that Puritanism produced,” listing Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor (1656) as one of the top five books that have influenced him most.I first read The Reformed Pastor as a high school student aspiring to pastoral...

Henry St. John: a Reappraisal of the Young Bolingbroke

Henry St. John: a Reappraisal of the Young Bolingbroke

Few men have been studied more but understood less than Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. He has suffered at the hands of those writers who have written of other aspects, or concentrated on other personalities, of the age in which he lived. In one of his purple passages Winston Churchill, anxious to defend his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, dismissed St. John as an “unpurposed, unprincipled, miscreant adventurer.” Louis Kronenberger was even more vehement in his denunciation: “He had neither moral stamina nor intellectual honesty nor emotional benevolence; and as he was in his heart, so was he in his dealings with men. In short, he was a scoundrel.” In his biographers St. John has suffered almost as badly. Walter Sichel, who wrote two large volumes covering his whole career, fell into the obvious trap of being “excessively adulatory.” Sir Charles Petrie and Sir Douglas Harkness concentrated almost exclusively on his early career, and the older works by G. W. Cooke and Thomas Macknight have been largely invalidated by the discovery of a mass of new evidence and by new interpretations of eighteenth-century politics. Three recent works are really only studies of ...

What Are the Characteristics of Alexander Pope's Poems?

What Are the Characteristics of Alexander Pope's Poems?

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Alexander Pope is the third most quoted writer next to William Shakespeare and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, according to the “Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.” One of England’s most celebrated poets, Pope lived and wrote in the late 17th and 18th centuries. He was and remains widely respected for his viewpoints on poetry and morality, and many of the distinct characteristics of his poetry relate to the connection he perceived between these two topics.Heroic CoupletsIn his earlier poetry such as “An Essay on Criticism,” Pope deployed the heroic couplet. A heroic couplet is a poetic form in which two lines written in iambic pentameter end with perfect rhymes. For example, the opening line of “An Essay on Criticism” reads, “'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill / Appear in Writing or Judging ill.” Though the heroic couplet had been a poetic form since Chaucer wrote, Pope’s use of it in his poetry was relatively original in his day. Heroic couplets add a sing-songy quality to some of his poetry....

Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

Henry St. John: a Reappraisal of the Young Bolingbroke

What Are the Characteristics of Alexander Pope's Poems?

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?

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Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?

Who printed the Gutenberg Bible? It sounds like a Groucho Marx joke, of the "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" variety. But the story behind the invention of the printing press, and the first book ever printed, is riddled with intrigue, subterfuge, and mystery. Let's start by finding out more about ...

John Stuart Mill: Higher happiness

philosophy

John Stuart Mill: Higher happiness

John Stuart Mill, the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century, is today best remembered as the author of On Liberty. The work is, he notes, a “kind of philosophic textbook of a single truth” – one in which he argues, relentlessly and over the course of around...

Michelangelo gave me a new perspective on aging

Art

Michelangelo gave me a new perspective on aging

I needed to pass age sixty before I could write a book about the artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in his seventies and eighties. How else could one understand those nagging aches of the body, the fear that slow but inexorable physical decline would soon be accompanied by mental deterioration, the m...