Geniuses

John Witherspoon

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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Abhimanyu Mishra

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John Witherspoon

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Robert Peel

Abhimanyu Mishra

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Edwin Hubble

A genius American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalacti...

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

A French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt U...

Homer

Is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representat...

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

A British poet and playwright, known for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

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James Croll, metaphysical geologist

James Croll, metaphysical geologist

royalsocietypublishing.org

James Croll (1821–90) occupies a prominent position in the history of physical geology, and his pioneering work on the causes of long-term climate change has been widely discussed. During his life he benefited from the patronage of leading men of science; his participation in scientific debates was widely acknowledged, not least through his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876. For all that, the intellectual contribution that Croll himself considered to be of most significance—his articles and two books on metaphysics—has attracted very little attention. In addressi...

The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”

The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”

journals.openedition.org

When Allan Cunningham concluded his 1834 Life of Burns with this critical judgement of Robert Burns’s poetry he was in fact summing up the schizophrenic nature of the Scottish character and identity. Scottish duality is still prevalent in the Highland-Lowland divide, the Catholic-Protestant rivalry, the linguistic differences Scots versus Gaelic, the English and Scottish competition for power, the past battling with the present in the search for a national identity free from myth and a sense of failure. In Burns’s day Scotland was trying hard to come to...

The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle

The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle

When Thomas Carlyle sat down in 1834 to write The French Revolution: A History, he wanted to do more than chronicle the mere procession of events. He wanted readers to smell the fear in the streets during the Terror, to taste the decadence of the Bourbon monarchy, to observe the sartorial cavalcade when the Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614, to picture blood spilling from guillotines. To accomplish his task he marshaled the same tools used by novelists—shifting point of view, imagery, and telling details—and borrowed tone and grandeur from Homer, Virgil, and Milton. W...

Xenophanes the Visionary Poet Philosopher

Xenophanes the Visionary Poet Philosopher

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Xenophanes of Colophon (l.c. 570-c.478 BCE) is known as one of the Pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece, so-called because they pre-date Socrates (l. c. 470/469-399 BCE), recognized as the Father of Western Philosophy. The Pre-Socratics initiated philosophical inquiry in ancient Greece starting in the 6th century BCE with Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE) who is understood as the first to ask "What is the basic 'stuff' of the universe?" (Baird, 8). In asking this question, Thales was departing from the cultural understanding that the gods had created the world and sustained it. Thale...

James Croll, metaphysical geologist

The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”

The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle

Xenophanes the Visionary Poet Philosopher

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In God They Trust

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In God They Trust

A small group of colonies manages to break away from a large empire in the closing years of the 18th century. The resulting state would probably be not much more than the Chile of the Northeast—a long littoral ribbon between the mountains and the ocean—if it were not for the imperial rivalries th...

Evgeny Kissin, a lion at the piano

Music

Evgeny Kissin, a lion at the piano

If it’s not easy to objectively review the recital that took place on Sunday April 15 at the New World Center (NWS). A review might be virtually pointless. That’s often the case when Evgeny Kissin plays onstage alone with a piano, his vital link to the rest of us mortals.When Kissin works ...

The unseen world: reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) ‘Concerning little animals’

Science

The unseen world: reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) ‘Concerning little animals’

Leeuwenhoek is universally acknowledged as the father of microbiology. He discovered both protists and bacteria [1]. More than being the first to see this unimagined world of ‘animalcules', he was the first even to...