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to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

In five pages this report considers the Free British Fishery Society of the mid eighteenth century. There is 1 source cited in th...

This paper examines the ways in which Eighteenth Century society is reflected in the art, music, and literature of the period, kno...

In four pages the work and interior design contributions of famed eighteenth century architect are examined. Four sources are cit...

In five pages this first person narrative is examined in terms of its description of quilt making and eighteenth century Quaker me...

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

her protestations of reform, Roxana does not regret in the slightest the amount of income which she has garnered over the years as...

for the entire community provided the basis upon which its historical evidence might be knowingly skewed to help support the notio...

other reason may be that they were too expensive for the average household to buy. Documents from that time indicate that the maga...

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

This essay describes the manner in which Voltaire lampooned eighteenth century society in his satirical novel "Candide." Five page...

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a living document, which was written in such a way so as to fit the times. While this...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...