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Man a Machine, La Mettrie
Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-1751) is the first modern materialist. His Man a Machine is a passionate, popular presentation of materialism and atheism, more provocati... |
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Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792, King of Hungary, archduke of Austria, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Emperor Francis I... |
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Delambre, The Metric System
In 1795 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre was admitted to the Bureau des Longitudes, becoming President in 1800. In 1801 he was appointed secretary to the Académie des Scienc... |
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Edward Jenner, Smallpox Vaccine - 1796
Jenner was an English physician and pupil of John Hunter, a pioneer in comparative anatomy and morphology. Jenner's invaluable experiments, beginning in 1796 with the vac... |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, and natural philosopher, one of the greatest figures in Western literature. Throughout his life Goethe was interested in a va... |
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Luigi Cherubini, Composer
Italian-French composer. Born into a musical family, the precocious youth had written dozens of works before he was 20 years old. In 1786 he settled permanently in Paris.... |
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Antonio Salieri, Italian Composer
Antonio Salieri is still better known today for the renowned composers with whom he was associated than for his own many and varied compositions. While he cannot be ranke... |
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The Industrial Revolution was a period of the 18th century marked by social and technological change in which manufacturing began to rely on steam power, fueled primarily... |
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The Symphony - An Interactive Guide
Explore composers, compositions, and important events using our comprehensive timeline. The Timeline is designed to allow users to view the important events in the develo... |
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Technology Timeline
From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope... |
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Principles of Morals, Hume
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, first published in 1751, was the third of David Hume's major philosophical tr... |
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James Madison, 4th US President
Madison, James, 4th President of the United States (1809–1817). A member of the Virginia planter class, he attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.), gradu... |
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The Romantics, Timeline BBC
This timeline of publishing dates from the Romantic period highlights some key writing that formed the basis for much of the artistic and political thought of the day. It... |
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Micromegas, Voltaire
Somewhere between tales and polemics, these funny, ribald, and inventive pieces show Voltaire doing what he does best: brilliantly challenging received wisdom, religious... |
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François Le Vaillant, French Explorer
François Le Vaillant was a French explorer, collector and ornithologist. Hugely popular in his lifetime for his engaging and colourful travel accounts, Le Vaillant is bes... |
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