Essay on the Theory of the Earth was the last work of the scientific writer Robert Kerr who translated it from the introductory essay of ...
Continue Reading βA founding text of comparative philology, Franz Bopp’s Vergleichende Grammatik was originally published in parts, beginning in 1833, and by the 1870s had appeared in ...
Continue Reading βCharles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a ...
Continue Reading βThe research on the nature of alkalinity, which Black conducted for his thesis, laid the basis for the most important paper of his career, βExperiments ...
Continue Reading βThe French anatomist, pathologist, and physiologist Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802) was the founder of general anatomy and animal histology. Bichat’s experimental work had great ...
Continue Reading βΒ Fidelio is Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera. The libretto, with some spoken dialogue, tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named “Fidelio”, rescues ...
Continue Reading βPreliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface ...
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