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Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys British mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, and philosopher Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891-1989) was one of the great original applied-mathematical thinkers of the 20th century. He is noted for his wide variety of scientific contributions. Harold Jeffreys was born on... Read more |
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Royal Society
Royal Society oldest scientific organization in Great Britain and one of the oldest in Europe. The Royal Society was first incorporated in 1662 as the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. It was founded in 1660 by a group of learned men in London who met to promote scientific... Read more |
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Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1785-1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier . He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828-40).... Read more |
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Sir Denis Mahon
Mahon, Sir Denis (1910– ). British art historian and collector. A private scholar with private means, he has devoted himself single-mindedly to the study of 17th-century Italian (particularly Bolognese) painting, and has not only built up a choice collection in this field, but also... Read more |
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Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen The English historian, critic, and editor Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was one of the great popularizers of Victorian thought and literature. Leslie Stephen was born in London on Nov. 28, 1832, the son of Sir James Stephen, a leading Evangelical and distinguished... Read more |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , 1859-1930, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, b. Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he received a medical degree in 1881. In 1887 the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Doyle abandoned... Read more |
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Sir Frederick Lugard Baron Lugard
Lugard, Sir Frederick, Baron Lugard (1858–1945). Colonial administrator. Lugard started as a soldier and adventurer, then got drawn into east Africa's religious wars (protestant converts v. catholic converts), until the area (Uganda) was formally annexed by Britain in 1894. Then he helped... Read more |
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Sir Ferumbras
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Sir Edward Poynter
Poynter, Sir Edward (1836–1919). British painter and administrator, son of the architect Ambrose Poynter. He made his reputation with the huge Israel in Egypt (Guildhall, London, 1867) and he became one of the most popular painters of the day with similar elaborate historical tableaux in... Read more |
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Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan 1911-77, British dramatist. One of England's most popular and commercially successful contemporary playwrights, he was the master of the tightly crafted "problem play." He was knighted in 1971. Among his plays are O Mistress Mine (1945), The Winslow Boy (1947), ... Read more |
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Peirce, Charles Sanders
...of pragmatism, America's greatest contribution to philosophy...Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic...influenced such subsequent thinkers as C.I. Lewis, Ilya Prigogine...internationally. For these thinkers, he offered a point of ... |
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Rodin, Auguste
...1917) French sculptor, one of the greatest European artists of his time...so naturalistic. His next great project was The Gates of Hell...with the subjects for further great sculptures, including The Thinker (1880), The Kiss (1886... |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
...theology, and educational theory mark him out as one of the dominant writers and thinkers of the age. Rousseau's Discours sur les sciences...la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), Rousseau's greatest popular success, a critical account of contemporary... |
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Shankara
...c.700–c.750) Indian religious thinker, the most famous exponent of the Vedanta...founded monasteries which were to be of great importance in helping to spread his ideas...creation. He saw Brahma (God) as the one true reality in the universe and the source... |
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Wegener, Alfred
...Berlin in 1880, Alfred Wegener was to become one of the most influential geological thinkers of the twentieth century with his hypothesis...L. DineleyBibliography Hallam, A. (1989) Great geological controversies (2nd edn). Oxford... |
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Nazi ideology
...radical right throughout Europe. Nazi thinkers such as Rosenberg were influenced by contemporary...to be a class society but a corporative one, organized in estates and corporations...historically inevitable. ‘Mankind has grown great in eternal war,’ wrote Hitler... |
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Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold
...Earl of Caledon, served with great distinction in the First World...front and, in a campaign of great panache, forced the surrender...Alexander was no original thinker but he had many virtues, not...whom Churchill counted himself one. He was a charming, ... |
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scientific revolution
...the self-image of the great thinkers of the 17th cent., and...Butterfield had seen one revolution: but it might...incommensurable with the old one, and the change is like...for ever, and that only one revolution per science... |
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Webster, Daniel
...interests, and meanwhile gaining a great reputation as a Boston lawyer...the United States, which was one of Webster's principal clients...Canada boundary dispute with Great Britain, he followed the other...in the regard of all liberal thinkers. However, ... |
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blood letting
...letting or phlebotomy, was one of the most common forms of medical...black bile or melancholy, one of the four humours. Certain...ideally selected with great care for their cleanliness...vampiric proportions.One of the purposes of blood...period.Medieval ... |
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eunuchs
...called to celibacy. But Origen (185–254 CE), one of the greatest thinkers of the early Church, took the words literally and mutilated...later in life, Origen, who regarded allegory as one form of scripture interpretation, rejected a literal... |
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Ibn (al-)ʿArabī, Muḥyi al-Dīn
...1165–1240 (AH 560–638)). A great Sūfī mystic and original thinker, called al-shaikh al-akbar (the Great Teacher, Shaykh) by his followers...Man). For him, Being is essentially one, and all phenomenal existence is a manifestation... |
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Aquinas, Thomas, St
...and theologian, recognized as one of the greatest thinkers of the Catholic Church. He was...further argued that God is not one of a class of spiritual beings...philosophy. He also held that by faith one can have access to truths about... |
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Dodd, Charles Harold
...interpretation of Albert Schweitzer. Dodd's greatest work was, however, in Johannine studies. Uncharacteristically for one associated with the then current Biblical...Hellenistic literature and was himself a thinker in the Platonic tradition. |
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post-modernism
...however, that most if not quite all of these thinkers would deny the applicability of the label...are no longer widely believed.On the one hand, ‘The Myth of Liberation’ has been...the complicity of all the sciences in the great crimes of the twentieth century, including... |
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Yüan Hung-tao
...dynasty who is revered as one of the great systematizers of the Pure Land tradition. One of three brothers renowned...teaching for ten years with one Li Chih. However, the death...remembered in Chinese culture as a thinker, essayist, and ... |
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Aristotle
...philosopher and scientist. A pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded a school (the Lyceum) outside Athens. He is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western thought and his work was central to Arabic and... |
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Lossky, Vladimir
...Vladimir (1903–58). Russian lay theologian. One of the greatest 20th-cent. exponents of Orthodox theology in the...fathers interpreted in the light of hesychasm. Among W. thinkers he was drawn to Meister Eckhart, on whom he wrote... |
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Shintō
...relate the foreign religion to the native one, or how Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were to relate to...proposed a cosmology according to which a great Shintō deity created the universe and all...Edo period (1603–1867), Shintō thinkers made use of new Neo-Confucian (see ... |
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China
...regions. In the north, greater proximity to India meant...in this region had a greater number of Indian and central Asian monks...sheng (360–434) a great textual scholar; Lu-shan...374–414); and the great translator Paramārtha...this period represents ... |
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mind
...reasoning, judgment. 8. one of the great mindssynonyms: genius, intellect, intellectual, thinker; inf. brain, egghead.phrases...cognizance of, take note of.cross one's mind synonyms: occur to one, come to one, enter ... |
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intellectual
intellectual • noun 1. one of the great intellectuals of our timesynonyms: intellect, genius, thinker, mastermind.See intellect 2. 2. sought the company of other intellectualssynonyms: academic, academician, man/woman of... |
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`Thinker' Remains a Popular - Though Private - Figure
...front steps of museums. One guards the Baltimore...And there is "The Thinker" who's 27 inches...conceived him 115 years ago. One of those middle-size "Thinkers" is on view at a gallery...wrapped around "The Thinker" is neither ... |
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The Brains Behind the Bronze; With His `Thinker,' Rodin Created a Modern Classic
...front steps of museums. One of those big cogitators...then there is "The Thinker" who's 27 inches...him 115 years ago. One of those middle-size "Thinkers" is today on view in...lesser pieces by that greatest of French sculptors...wrapped ... |
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Shedding light on modern Jewish thinkers: Modern Jewish Thinkers; An...
...light on modern Jewish thinkers: Modern Jewish Thinkers...Orthodox) extremism at one endof the spectrum to...themselves andthe world.One of the special merits...reliable reference source.One can delve into Modern...theminds and souls of the ... |
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TUCK PROFESSORS NAMED TO TOP 50 MANAGEMENT THINKERS LIST.
...again been named to the Thinkers 50, the fourth biennial...influential living management thinkers. Tuck professor Sydney...named as a management thinker to watch. Created and...of CrainerDearlove, Thinkers 50 is a biennial guide...students. At Tuck we take ... |
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Nahyan bin Mubarak opens Thinkers and Creators Festival ist add.
...and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the Third Festival of Thinkers, hosted by the Higher...open for discussion. One might ask why would an...of the world, and is one of the oldest centers...on a mission to become one of ... |
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Deep in thought over the thinker in residence
...sculpture. But equally one's colleagues would...s tiddlywinks team. One presumably must be deep...And what happens to a thinker in residence when he...world of professional thinkers is fraught with possibility...not talked about it a great ... |
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festival of thinkers closing remarks.
festival of thinkers closing remarksGood afternoon...I want to thank every one of you for your participation...brought to the festival great experience, impressive...on two basic concepts. One, the role of thinkers...the globe. We've made ... |
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WHAT GREAT THINKER CAME UP WITH THIS INAUGURATION FARE?(Editorial)(Column)
...re gathering the ``Great Thinkers.'' It's...Two are music tents. One tent is a ``Technology...sophisticated sex toys. One tent is for kids. It...assigned to the Great Thinkers will head out on the...Moyers. He's a ... |
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Dr Mahathir - a great Islamic thinker whose ideas help Muslims
...2003 Dr Mahathir - a great Islamic thinker whose ideas help MuslimsEdition...Mohamad is a great Islamic thinker who not only comes up...the label of "Islamic thinker" should only be accorded...were famous Islamic thinkers ... |
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Design Thinker Named Best New Product at Edison Awards Gala.
...April 7, 2011-: Design Thinker Named Best New Product...ExperiencePoint' s Design Thinker, a simulation that builds...named for Thomas Edison, one of the world's most...matter what your role is, great ideas and innovative...Miller Caldicott, a ... |
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