The so-called Sienese sketchbook of the famous architect and engineer Giuliano da Sangallo was originally in the library of Sienese scholar Giovanni Antonio Pecci. The ...
Continue Reading โJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of ...
Continue Reading โProcopius’s History of the Wars in 8 books recounts the Persian Wars of emperors Justinus and Justinian down to 550 (2 books); the Vandalic War ...
Continue Reading โOn the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (19 April 1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. The book concludes that land rent ...
Continue Reading โThe Histoire Naturelle, gรฉnรฉrale et particuliรจre, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707โ1788) is remembered for. ...
Continue Reading โThis book shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis and argues that his political philosophy, often ...
Continue Reading โPierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ...
Continue Reading โPhilosophical Commentary deals with church and state, religious toleration, legal enforcement of religious practices, and religiously motivated violence. Pierre Bayle (1647โ1706) was a Protestant philosopher ...
Continue Reading โBacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation ...
Continue Reading โLucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCEโ65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of ...
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