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Baldi, Bernardino
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to enter the service of the duke of Urbino as historian and biographer, remaining there until his death. A vast work on geography...x2019; s commentary, as given by Baldi ’ s first biographer. That date is, however, inconsistent with passages in Baldi...
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Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...operations against England. When he departed for Cherbourg, his biographer says, Cauchy carried in his baggage Laplace ’ s...Cauchy was appointed (not elected) a member. (Even his main biographer feels uneasy about his hero ’ s agreeing to succeed...
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Biography and Autobiography
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...James (1740 – 1793) Scottish author and devoted biographer of Samuel Johnson. [Br. Hist.: NCE , 341] Cellini...NCE , 2103] Plutarch (c. 46 – c. 120) Greek biographer known for his Lives , a collection of biographies of Greek...
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Jeans, James Hopwood
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...E. A. Milne, the astrophysicist and Jeans ’ s biographer. From 1905 to 1909 Jeans was professor of applied mathematics...Jeans died of coronary thrombosis in 1946. Jean ’ s biographer E. A. Milne divides his scientific life into four parts...
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Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...to defend Freud and psychoanalysis from the constant attacks to which they were subjected, the personality of Jones as a biographer of Freud, his complex and often ambivalent relationship toward the founder of psychoanalysis, the cultural and social context...
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Psychobiography
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...subject's "free association," however, is viewed as less of a handicap than critics assert because the psychoanalytic biographer can often draw upon an abundance of diaries, letters, and other writings as well as sound recordings, photographs, and...
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International Order
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Greek world to the fullest stage of development, creating a unified world order under Greek leadership. According to his biographer Arrian (second century c.e.) writing several centuries later, Alexander aimed at creating an empire that brought peace...
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Bock, Jerome
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...botany, with its demand that descriptions and illustrations be derived from nature. Melchior Adam, Bock ’ s first biographer, provides the earliest, and in some cases the only, information on his career. His birthplace is debatable, but internal...
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Councilman, William Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...In 1904, with several associates, Councilman published a monograph on the pathology of smallpox, which was called by his biographer Harvey Cushing the best treatise ever written on the pathology of that disease. Councilman had a unique capacity to work...
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Desargues, Girard
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...powerful machines to raise the water of the Seine, in order to be able to distribute it in the city. Adrien Baillet, the biographer of Descartes, declares that Desargues participated as an engineer at the siege of La Rochelle in 1628 and that he there made...
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