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Peter Abelard

A medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, compos...

Isaac Newton

An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés

A Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

Thales of Miletus

Thales of Miletus

A Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus.

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A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Al-Kindi

A Muslim philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician who is hailed as the "father of Arab...

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Tennyson’s rise and fall

Tennyson’s rise and fall

When Tennyson died in 1892, 11,000 people applied for tickets to his funeral in Westminster Abbey. Dr Stephanie Forward considers the poet's huge popularity in the second half of the 19th century, and the decline of his reputation in the 20th.‘Tennyson is a great poet, for reasons that are perfectly clear. He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety, and complete competence’.The reputation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) has fluctuated. Although he achieved great acclaim during his lifetime, there were always detra...

Gilbert N. Lewis and the chemical bond

Gilbert N. Lewis and the chemical bond

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

This year (2006) marks the 90th anniversary of the publication of G. N. Lewis's 1916 paper entitled “The Atom and the Molecule.” This remarkable and revolutionary paper laid the foundation for much of our present day understanding of two fundamental concepts of chemistry: The chemical bond and molecular structure. It was, without a doubt, one of the most influential chemistry papers ever published. His ideas were treated more fully and in greater detail, and applied to a wide range of substances and their reactions in his book “Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules,” published in...

Madame X

Madame X

"Iwas terrible," Martha Argerich said, after drawing hysterical applause with a recent pair of performances at Carnegie Hall. "I was in a strange state. My mind was on other things." Argerich was sitting in a midtown hotel restaurant, amid a motley, lively group of friends. She had just played Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with the Montreal Symphony. The friends, speaking in various accents of Argentina, France, Hungary, and California, protested that she had in fact been stupendous, colossal, magical. The conductor Charles Dutoit, who is nearly as famous for being one of Argerich's form...

The Preaching of the Master: Thomas Aquinas’s University Sermons on Happiness

The Preaching of the Master: Thomas Aquinas’s University Sermons on Happiness

tandfonline.com

The single task of the Parisian masters of the thirteenth century was to read Scripture, a task they performed by way of the famous legere, disputare, praedicare. Although intimately connected these three are rarely studied in relation to each other. Thomas Aquinas’s sermons on the beatitudes (Matthew 5. 1–10) can be compared to his commentary on Matthew and the Summa Theologiae. This opens up a new perspective on the sermons, addressing some of the questions they raise. The edition of Aquinas’s sermons by Louis Bataillon is instrumental in performing this task and will therefor...

Tennyson’s rise and fall

Gilbert N. Lewis and the chemical bond

Madame X

The Preaching of the Master: Thomas Aquinas’s University Sermons on Happiness

Peter Paul Rubens

Rudolf Clausius and the Science of Thermodynamics

Physics

Rudolf Clausius and the Science of Thermodynamics

On January 2, 1822, German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was born. He is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics, who introduced the concept of entropy in 1865.“If for the entire unive...

Children’s understanding of Aesop’s fables: relations to reading comprehension and theory of mind

Child Prodigy literature

Children’s understanding of Aesop’s fables: relations to reading comprehension and theory of mind

Aesop and child development

The First Golden Age of Islamic Science

Science

The First Golden Age of Islamic Science

THE ISLAMIC WORLD came into contact with the great civilizations of antiquity during the eighth and ninth centuries. The scientific knowledge of not only Greece, but also India and Persia, was then assimilated by its scholars in a two-stage process. First, all the sources were translated into Ara...