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- 23:54, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Gravesande, Willem Jacob (New page: '''`s Gravesande, Willem Jacob''' (1688-1742): Dutch Scientist. ‘s Gravesande studied law at the University of Leiden, where he graduated on a doctoral dissertation on the crime of sui...)
- 23:15, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Godwin, William (New page: '''Godwin, William''' (1756-1836). English Political Thinker. William Godwin was an infamous radical philosopher and essayist. In 1793, he achieved instant notoriety and acclaim with th...)
- 23:05, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Gluck, Christoph Willibald (New page: '''Gluck, Christoph Willibald''' (1714-87): Austrian, Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck was born in Erasbach in the Upper Palatinate on 2 July 1714. He received some music training at ...)
- 22:48, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Galvani, Luigi (New page: '''Galvani, Luigi''' (1737-1798): Italian Scientist and Physician. Originally trained in medicine, Luigi Galvani was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Bologna. In his mid-for...)
- 22:25, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Francke, August Hermann (New page: Francke, August Hermann (1663-1727): German Theologian. Fervent and devout from his youth, Francke studied at Kiel and the University of Leipzig and in 1687 underwent a religious convers...)
- 22:02, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (New page: '''Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de''' (1657-1757): French, Philosopher. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle was born into a literary family in Rouen. Through his familial connections, as n...)
- 01:14, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Fernández de Moratín, Leandro and Nicolas (New page: '''Fernández de Moratín, Leandro''' (1760-1828) and '''Nicolas''' (1737-80): Spanish Poets and Playwrights Don Leandro Fernández de Moratín is considered the most outstanding Spanish...)
- 01:05, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo (New page: '''Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo''' (1676-1764): Spanish, Philosopher. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y Montenegro was the most outstanding Spanish philosopher of the eighteenth century...)
- 00:57, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (New page: '''Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel''' (1686-1736): German, Physicist Fahrenheit, who was born in Danzig on 14 May 1686, revolutionized the thermometer in 1714, when he first used mercury inst...)
- 00:48, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Equiano, Olaudah (New page: '''Equiano, Olaudah''' (c.1745-1797): Afro-English Writer. Olaudah Equiano, later known as Gustavus Vassa, was a slave, and later a freed Black adventurer, abolitionist, and author of th...)
- 00:42, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Edwards, Jonathan (New page: '''Edwards, Jonathan''' (1703-1758): American Theologian. Jonathan Edwards was a Massachusetts Congregational minister, one of the most prominent and significant evangelical ministers in...)
- 00:34, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Edgeworth, Maria (New page: '''Edgeworth, Maria''' (1767-1849): English, Novelist Novelist Maria Edgeworth was born to Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his first wife, Anna Maria Edgeworth (née Elers). Richard marrie...)
- 00:29, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Dubos, Abbé Jean-Baptiste (New page: '''Dubos, Abbé Jean-Baptiste''' (1670-1742): French, Philosopher Jean-Baptiste Dubos (or “Du Bos”) is primarily remembered for his work of aesthetics, ''Réflexions critique sur la ...)
- 00:14, 14 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Defoe, Daniel (New page: '''Defoe, Daniel''' (1660-1731): English Writer. Although best known for his ''Robinson Crusoe'', one of the eighteenth century’s major works of fiction, Daniel Defoe actively engaged ...)
- 23:55, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Darwin, Erasmus (New page: '''Darwin, Erasmus''' (1731-1802): English Scientist and Physician. Grandfather of Francis Galton and of Charles Darwin whose evolutionary views he partly anticipated. After his study at...)
- 00:53, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Cavendish, Henry (New page: '''Cavendish, Henry''' (1731-1810): British Scientist. Cavendish’s central interest was the study of attracting and repelling forces of particles. He came from high aristocratic lineag...)
- 00:43, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (New page: '''Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo''' (1725-1798): Italian Writer and Adventurer. Also known as Jacques Casanova, chevalier de Seingalt, Casanova was an adventurer who authored a famous autob...)
- 00:36, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Canaletto, Antonio (New page: '''Canaletto, Antonio''' (1697-1768): Italian Painter. Antonio Canaletto was born Giovanni Antonio Canal in Venice, Italy. In 1716 he trained under his father, a set designer and scene ...)
- 00:35, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Campomanes, Pedro Rodriguez de (New page: '''Campomanes, Pedro Rodriguez de''' (1723-1802). Spanish, Statesman, Historiographer and Economist. Pedro Rodriguez de Campomanes was born in Santa Eulalla de Sorribas, Spain He was a...)
- 00:12, 13 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques (New page: '''Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques''' (1694-1748): Swiss Political Theorist and Jurist. Born and educated in Geneva, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui became Professor of Law at the Academy of Geneva is ...)
- 23:36, 12 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Bonaparte, Napoleon (New page: '''Napoleon Bonaparte''' (1769-1821): French General and Emperor. Napoleon I ranks as one of the world's great conquerors. In addition to conquest, his legal and administrative reforms c...)
- 23:29, 12 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Boffrand, Germain (New page: '''Boffrand, Germain''' (1667-1754): French Architect. The architectural style of Germain Boffrand, the greatest French architect of the first half of the eighteenth-century, illustrates...)
- 01:09, 12 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Beckford, William (New page: '''Beckford, William''' (1759-1844): English Writer. The author of ''Vathek'', one of the most important of the pseudo-oriental novels of the eighteenth-century, Beckford led a bizarre l...)
- 01:01, 12 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (New page: '''Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de''' (1732-1799): French Playwright. Pierre Augustin Caron became eighteenth century France’s most controversial and revolutionary playwright un...)
- 00:12, 12 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Bach, Johann Sebastian (New page: '''Bach, Johann Sebastian''' (1685 - 1750): German Composer Bach is considered the first and finest of the German composers. Bach stands as the culmination and end-point of centuries o...)
- 21:08, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Asam, Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin (New page: '''Asam, Cosmas Damian''' (1686-1739) and '''Egid Quirin''' (1692-1750). Brothers; German Architects and Painters. Sons of a painter in the style of the Italian Baroque, the Asam brothers...)
- 21:01, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Allen, Richard (New page: '''Allen, Richard''' (1760-1831). American, Clergyman. Richard Allen was a Black abolitionist and founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, the first African-Am...)
- 20:46, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Akenside, Mark (New page: '''Akenside, Mark''' (1721-70). English Poet. Mark Akenside, poet and physician, was the son of a butcher at Newcastle on Tyne and studied medicine at the Universities of Edinburgh and L...)
- 01:15, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume Z (New page: '''Zoffani, Johann''')
- 01:15, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume Y (New page: '''Young, Edward''')
- 01:14, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume X (New page: '''No Entries''')
- 01:14, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume W (New page: '''Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich''' '''Wagenseil, Georg Christoph''' '''Walpole, Horace''' '''Warburton, Bishop William''' '''Watteau, Antoine''' '''[[Wedgwood, Jo...)
- 01:11, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume V (New page: '''Vanbrugh, Sir John''' '''Verri, Alessandro and Pietro''' '''Vico, Giovanni Battista''' '''Vivaldi, Antonio''' '''Volkov, Fyodor''' '''[[Voltaire, François-Mari...)
- 01:09, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume U
- 01:09, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume T (New page: '''Tatishchev,Vasily Nikitich''' '''Telemann, Georg Philip''' '''Tetens, Johann Nicolaus''' '''Thelwall, John''' '''Thomasius, Christian''' '''Tieck, Ludwig'''...)
- 00:53, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume S (New page: '''Sade, Marquis de''' '''Saint-Pierre, Charles-Irénée Castel de''' '''Sancho, Ignatius''' '''Scarlatti, (Giuseppe) Domenico''' '''[[Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Jose...)
- 00:47, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume R (New page: '''Radcliffe, Ann''' '''Radischev, Alexander''' '''Rameau, Jean Philippe''' '''Ramsay, David''' '''Rastrelli, Bartolommeo Francesco''' '''[[Raynal, Guillaume Tomas...)
- 00:44, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume Q (New page: '''Quesnay, François''')
- 00:43, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume P (New page: '''Paine, Thomas''' '''Paley, William''' '''Palmer, Elihu''' '''Percy, Thomas''' '''Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista''' '''Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich''' '''[[Pic...)
- 00:40, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume O (New page: '''No Entries''')
- 00:39, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume N
- 00:38, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume C
- 00:23, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume L (New page: '''La Chaussée, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de''' '''La Mettrie, Julien Offray de''' '''Laclos, Choderlos de''' '''Lagrange, Joseph Louis''' '''Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste'''...)
- 00:18, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume K (New page: '''Kames, Henry Home, Lord''' '''Kant, Immanuel''' '''Karamzin, Nicolai Mikhailovich''' '''Kent, William''' '''Kleist, Heinrich von''' '''[[Klinger, Friedrich Maxi...)
- 00:17, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume J (New page: '''Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich''' '''Jea, John''' '''Jefferson, Thomas''' '''Johnson, Samuel''' '''Joseph II''' '''Jovellanos y Ramirez, Gaspar Melchor de''' '...)
- 00:15, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume I (New page: '''Iffland, August Wilhelm''' '''de Isla y Rojo, padre Jose Francisco''')
- 00:02, 11 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume F (New page: '''Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel''' '''Falconet, Etienne Maurice''' '''Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo''' '''Ferguson, Adam''' '''[[Fernández de Moratín, Leandro a...)
- 23:58, 10 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume E (New page: '''Edgeworth, Maria''' '''Edwards, Jonathan''' '''Equiano, Olaudah''' '''Euler, Leonhard''')
- 23:57, 10 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume D (New page: '''Darwin, Erasmus''' '''David, Jacques-Louis''' '''de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Ramon''' '''Defoe, Daniel''' '''Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich''' '''[[Desmoulins, ...)
- 23:31, 10 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume A (New page: '''Adam, Robert''' '''Adams, John''' '''Addison, Joseph''' '''Akenside, Mark ''' '''Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’''' '''Allen, Richard''' '''[[d’Argenson, Ren...)
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