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- 21:16, 27 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Spence, Thomas (New page: '''Spence, Thomas''' (1750-1814): English, Political Journalist. From 1775 until his death in 1814, the radical pamphleteer Thomas Spence promoted his utopian “Plan” for social refor...)
- 21:15, 27 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Spallanzani, Lazzaro (New page: '''Spallanzani, Lazzaro''' (1729-1799): Italian biologist. Lazzaro Spallanzani was born at Scandiano and educated at a Jesuit college and then at Bologna University, where he studied Jur...)
- 01:11, 27 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (New page: '''Sheridan, Richard Brinsley''' (1751-1816): Irish/English, Playwright. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of actor, orator, and educator Thomas Sheridan and of playwright Frances Sheridan,...)
- 00:51, 27 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Schlözer, August Ludwig von (New page: '''Schlözer, August Ludwig von''' (1735-1809): German Historian. Schlözer was a scholar and publicist of the German enlightenment, who had a practical impact on politics by publication...)
- 00:20, 27 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Rush, Benjamin
- 23:02, 26 September 2007 (hist) (diff) MacLaurin, Colin (New page: '''MacLaurin, Colin''' (1698-1747): Scottish Mathematician. Colin MacLaurin was Professor of Mathematics at Marischal College in Aberdeen and at Edinburgh University. He was born in the ...)
- 23:23, 25 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (New page: '''Piranesi, Giovanni Battista''' (1720-1778): Italian Architect and Engraver. As a printmaker, architect, archaelologist, designer, theorist, and antiquities dealer, Giovanni Battista P...)
- 22:55, 25 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Palmer, Elihu (New page: '''Palmer, Elihu''' (1764-1806): American philosopher. Elihu Palmer was one of the early Republic’s most vocal advocates of philosophical deism and in 1801 published his major work on ...)
- 22:53, 25 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Paley, William (New page: '''Paley, William''' (1743-1805): English Philosopher. William Paley, archdeacon of Carlisle, was a moralist, an Anglican apologist, and the key proponent of empirical arguments for the ...)
- 01:10, 25 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Muratori, Ludovico Antonio (New page: '''Muratori, Ludovico Antonio''' (1672-1750): Italian Historian and Theologian. Ludovico Muratori is considered the founder of Italian historiography as well as a major influence on the ...)
- 16:50, 22 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Mesmer, Franz Anton (New page: '''Mesmer, Franz Anton''' (1734-1815): French Scientist. Mesmer is widely recognized as the founder of dynamic psychiatry. His hypothesis that the universe was permeated by a universal f...)
- 16:42, 22 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Mengs, Anton Raphael (New page: '''Mengs, Anton Raphael''' (1728-79): German Painter Anton Mengs was born in Aussig in Bohemia. His father, a Danish artist, gave Mengs his first professional training in drawing. The ...)
- 16:23, 22 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (New page: '''Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de''' (1688-1763): French Playwright. Few comic playwrights have ever met with the success attained by Pierre de Marivaux. Born in Paris on 4 Febr...)
- 01:49, 21 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Manley, Delariviere (New page: '''Manley, Delariviere''' (1672-1724): English Writer. Delariviere Manley was the second professional woman writer in England (Aphra Behn being the first), an important woman political j...)
- 01:08, 21 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Maffei, Francesco Scipione Marchese di (New page: '''Maffei, Francesco Scipione Marchese di''' (1675-1755): Italian, Playwright. Maffei, man of letters, archaeologist, antiquarian and historian, was born in Verona into an aristocratic f...)
- 01:10, 20 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Lomonosov, Mikhail
- 23:36, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) La Chaussée, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de (New page: '''La Chaussée, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de''' (1692-1754): French, Playwright. Pierre-Claude Nivelle de la Chaussée came from a traditional Parisian bourgeois family and was educated by ...)
- 20:51, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von (New page: '''Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von''' (1720-1771). German, Scholar, Public Servant, and Publicist. Justi was a prolific writer, whose work ranged from economics, politics, history, phi...)
- 20:50, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Jovellanos y Ramirez, Gaspar Melchor de (New page: '''Jovellanos y Ramirez, Gaspar Melchor de''' (1744-1811): Spanish, Statesman and Author. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was born into an aristocratic family in Gijon on the 5th of January...)
- 01:39, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Jea, John (New page: '''Jea, John''' (1773-?). Itinerant Preacher Born in what was Old Calibar, Nigeria in 1773, John Jea gained freedom from slavery in New York and became an itinerant preacher. His prosely...)
- 01:03, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume H
- 00:48, 19 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius) (New page: '''Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius)''' (1701-1790): German Historian and Theologian. Johann von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Germany, writing under the name Ju...)
- 00:55, 18 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Hogarth, William (New page: '''Hogarth, William''' (1697-1764): English Printmaker and Painter. William Hogarth was England’s greatest graphic artist of the eighteenth century, best known for his pictorial storie...)
- 00:13, 18 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Hammon, Jupiter (New page: '''Hammon, Jupiter''' (1720?-1800?): American, Evangelist. A slave in Long Island, New York, Jupiter Hammon was a clerk bookkeeper and occasional preacher. His first poems, published in 1...)
- 00:08, 18 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Haller, Albrecht von (New page: '''Haller, Albrecht von''' (1708-1777): Swiss Physiologist. Born in Bern to an aristocratic family, Albrecht von Haller was a child prodigy, who spoke Greek and Hebrew at nine and wrote p...)
- 00:07, 18 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Hagedorn, Friedrich von (New page: '''Hagedorn, Friedrich von''' (1708-54): German Poet. Friedrich von Hagedorn is credited with reviving the German animal fable and introducing a lightness and grace into German poetry. ...)
- 23:56, 17 September 2007 (hist) (diff) Volume G
- 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...)
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