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  More info about: Harpsichord after Michael Mietke
  Harpsichord after Michael Mietke
By the time Michael Mietke was building instruments in his workshop on the outskirts of Berlin in the early 1700s the harpsichord already had over two centuries worth of...
         
  More info about: Thomas Bayes, Mathematician
  Thomas Bayes, Mathematician
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem. Bayes was elected Fellow of the Royal So...
         
  More info about: John Wesley, Leader Methodists
  John Wesley, Leader Methodists
John Wesley was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had three rises, the first at Oxf...
         
  More info about: The United Methodist Church
  The United Methodist Church
This web site represents The General Commission on Archives and History for The United Methodist Church. You will find many useful and interesting pages here to place the...
         
  More info about: The Advertising Age Timeline
  The Advertising Age Timeline
295-year timeline. In this Web site, the timeline evolved into an interactive document covering 295 years of the primary events in the history of American advertising fro...
         
  More info about: Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father USA
  Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father USA
Benjamin Franklin stands tall among a small group of men we call our Founding Fathers. Ben used his diplomacy skills to serve his fellow countrymen. His role in the Ame...
         
  More info about: Great Britain, Union England and Scotland
  Great Britain, Union England and Scotland
The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merg...
         
  More info about: Linnaeus, Father Species Classification
  Linnaeus, Father Species Classification
Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern plant and animal classification. Linnaeus was born in 1707, the son of a Lutheran clergyman, at Rashult in Sweden. He began to stud...
         
  More info about: Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
  Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
On the life and work of notable people who have contributed to evolutionary thought...
         
  More info about: Julien De La Mettrie, Man a Machine
  Julien De La Mettrie, Man a Machine
Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, French physician, atheist, mechanist and materialist; an infamous specimen of the Enlightenment. La Mettrie's Man a Machine (L'Homme Machine,...
         
  More info about: Samuel Johnson, English author
  Samuel Johnson, English author
Samuel Johnson was the leading literary scholar and critic of his time, Johnson helped to shape and define the Augustan Age. He was equally celebrated for his brilliant a...
         
  More info about: Giovanni Pergolesi, Italian Composer
  Giovanni Pergolesi, Italian Composer
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer of the Neapolitan school. Although he died at the age of 26, he is credited with masterpieces in two fields of music: La ser...
         
  More info about: Louis XV of France
  Louis XV of France
King of France (1715 – 74). An orphan from age three, Louis succeeded to the throne on the death of his great-grandfather Louis XIV (1715), under the regency of Philippe...
         
  More info about: David Hume
  David Hume
"Hume is our Politics, Hume is our Trade, Hume is our Philosophy, Hume is our Religion." This statement by 19th century British idealist philosopher James Hutchison Stirl...
         
  More info about: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As a brilliant, undisciplined, and unconventional thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent most of his life being driven by controversy back and forth between Paris and his n...
         
         
 
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