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Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Thomas Jefferson's Life and Contributions

still the most important piece of history that the U.S. embraces. Jefferson married in 1772 and owned both land and slaves ("Jef...

Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

technology that would be more accessible to everyone through a common language" (OHanlon, 2001)....

Life and Work of Kurt Schwitters

"disparate pieces of collage and assemblages round the studio walls, which over time were connected by string, then wire, then woo...

Life and Career of Psychologist Hugo Munsterberg

to ideas which differed from his own. He clinged tightly, however, to two basic psychological principles:...

Life and Philosophy of Denis Diderot

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Life and Work of Marie Curie

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Frederick II

and Frederick II never loved her or cared about her in the least. Frederick William I died at the end of May in 1740. At that tim...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Singer Hector Lavoe's Tragic Life

In eight pages singer Hector Lavoe's tragic life and contributions to Latino music are examined. Six sources are cited in the bib...

St. Augustine and His Impact

2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...

Seeking Answers in the Cosmos with Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Aristotle

In ten pages this paper examines the lives and astronomical contributions both literally and figuratively speaking as they relate ...

Mark Twain's Life and Times

vocation was to become licensed as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River" which is where he came up with his literary name, M...

Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

In twelve pages these economists' lives, theories, and contributions are examined. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography....

Economic Contributions of Smith, Ricardo, and Keynes

university in 1751 as a professor of logic. The lectures he gave covered subjects such as ethics and jurisprudence as well as the ...

Sigmund Freud's Contributions

aggressive and constantly seeking self satisfaction and power. Because of this dueling reality man is often confused, and filled w...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

A Biography of Alessandro Volta

In five pages this paper discusses the life and scientific contributions of electrical energy pioneer Alessandro Volta. There are...

Ballet Theater and Peter Tchaikovsky

In eight pages this essay analyzes Peter Tchaikovsky's life and focuses upon his many ballet theater contributions. Five sources ...

The Life of A. Philip Randolph

Elizabeth Randolph. His father named him Asa after one of the great kings of the Old Testament" (APRI, 2002). He was born on April...

Modern Art and the Impact of the Russian Revolution

II would introduce sweeping reforms, the largest and most influential of them being the freeing of the serfs(Service, 1998). This ...

Life and Works of Shaka Zulu

would mold him into the fierce and merciless warrior he would become. A young man in his twenties, he was drafted into the arm...

Gelsey Kirkland, Ballet Dance Artist

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

Life and Times of Karl Marx

and only some application in French" (pp. 6). In short, it would appear that he was a typical and educated, middle-class, studen...

Life and Theories of Sir Isaac Newton

Newtons discoveries interrelated, in fact, with many others of this time period. The first radical departure of science from the ...