Grimm, Fairy Tales
 When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm set out to collect stories in the early 1800s, their goal was not to entertain children but to preserve ...
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued ...
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This forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the ...
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Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change ...
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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 →Bopp, A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages
A 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 →Bonnet, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy
Charles 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 →Black, Experiments upon Magnesia, Alba, Quicklime and some other Alcaline Substances
The research on the nature of alkalinity, which Black conducted for his thesis, laid the basis for the most important paper of his career, “Experiments ...
Continue Reading →Bichat, General Anatomy Applied to Physiology and Medicine
The 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 →Beethoven, Fidelio
 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 ...
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