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- Kames, Henry Home, Lord (3,123 bytes)
10: ...ation of his principles was his ''Sketches on the History of Man'' (1774), directed toward a middle class a... - Kant, Immanuel (8,410 bytes)
7: ...nes. In 1755, he published his ''General Natural History'' and ''Theory of the Heavens'' in which he propo...
25: ...says, Kant developed a teleological conception of history as the progressive, though unwitting, development... - Karamzin, Nicolai Mikhailovich (2,056 bytes)
9: ... I. Protasova, a mason in 1801, and worked on ''A History of the Russian State'', a twelve volume work, fro... - Kotzebue, August Friedrich von (1,862 bytes)
3: ...rms of originality and artistic quality, literary history ranks him as a minor figure. - Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (3,559 bytes)
5: ...inated in the multivolume landmark work ''Natural History of Animals without Vertebrae'', completed in 1822... - Lambert, Johann Henrich (1,789 bytes)
5: ...uld nevertheless exert a greater influence in the history of philosophy. This work, ''the Foundation of Ar... - Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (6,224 bytes)
7: ...first substantial quantitative experiments in the history of chemistry -- to show what really occurs in the... - Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1,886 bytes)
5: ...enberg studied mathematics, astronomy and natural history at the university in Göttingen, where he became ... - Linnaeus, Carolus (5,399 bytes)
11: After Linnaeus's death, Swedish natural history suffered decadence. In 1784, the Briton James Ed... - Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de (3,283 bytes)
3: ... Tencin in Paris. He devoted his life to studying history and philosophy and writing over thirty books. He...
7: ..., not to seek historical truth, but rather to use history as a vehicle for his ideas. He shared with many p... - Macaulay, Catherine (1,829 bytes)
3: ...Macaulay and began writing her eight-volume T''he History of England from the Accession of James I to that ...
5: ...e to William Graham, 21, when she was 57. Besides history, other topics she wrote on included Hobbesian det... - Macpherson, James (2,637 bytes)
3: ...of one of the great forgeries of British literary history.
9: ...75), and ''Original Papers, Containing the Secret History of Great Britain'' (1750). He also published a t... - Maffei, Francesco Scipione Marchese di (1,798 bytes)
9: ...ublications on medieval knighthood and diplomatic history. His encyclopedic interests led him to write abo... - Malthus, Thomas Robert (3,370 bytes)
5: ...his native Surrey, he accepted a professorship of history and political economy at East India College in Ha... - Manley, Delariviere (2,510 bytes)
7: ...nerally Whig) targets of her satire: ''The Secret History of Queen Zarah'' (1705), a satirical attack on th... - Mengs, Anton Raphael (3,433 bytes)
9: ...his ''Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums'' (''Art History of the Antique'', 1764). Mengs further promoted... - Millar, John (1,747 bytes)
5: ...' (1787) was partly a response to Hume’s Tory ''History of England'' (1752-62). - Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de (6,263 bytes)
5: ...of Bordeaux, developing the passion for classical history and philosophy that would remain with him all his... - Möser, Justus (3,632 bytes)
7: ...ighest point in civilisation. In his ''Osnabrück History'', Möser sought a historical explanation in the ... - Muratori, Ludovico Antonio (2,503 bytes)
5: ... University of Modena, but turned to the study of history and literature. In 1695, he was ordained and app...
9: ... Deeply influenced by the Benedictine approach to history with its emphasis on massive scholarly tomes base... - Necker, Jacques (9,029 bytes)
9: ...tter, and therefore, for the first time in French history, published an account of annual revenues and expe... - Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (6,331 bytes)
9: ...stendom or Europe” is structured by the view of history that a state of harmony is followed by disunity, ... - Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (4,266 bytes)
11: ...La serva padrona'' is especially notorious in the history of music as the work that sparked the famous “Q...
15: ... Charles. ''The Comic Intermezzo: A Study in the History of Eighteenth-Century Opera'', 1979. - Pope, Alexander (9,715 bytes)
7: ...gacy that stretched back through English literary history to the ancients. But as his career progressed, P...
21: ...return to traditional humanistic studies (ethics, history, poetry). - Priestley, Joseph (7,443 bytes)
3: ...author who wrote books and pamphlets on theology, history, politics, education and language in addition to ...
9: ...ry of electricity, which was published in 1767; a history of optics followed five years later. Priestley wa... - Ramsay, David (3,498 bytes)
5: His recognition in American history has a two-fold origin: medical and political. Ha...
7: ..., ''The History of South Carolina'' (1809), and ''History of the United States''. He believed order was ne... - Raynal, Guillaume Tomas François (3,260 bytes)
5: ...ded editions of his ''Philosophical and Political History of the European Settlements and Trade in the East...
7: Raynal’s work was a philosophical history of European expansion in the West Indies and Asia...
13: ... his faith in progress. Revised three times the ''History'' ran to 20 editions and 54 counterfeit printings... - Reynolds, Sir Joshua (3,686 bytes)
5: ...emanding genre. However, there was no market for history painting at that time, so he was forced to earn a... - Richardson, Samuel (3,507 bytes)
3: ...as enormously popular, and ''Clarissa''; or ''the History of a Young Lady'' (1747-48), which is enormously ...
5: ...three novels, ''Pamela'', ''Clarissa'', and ''The History of Sir Charles Grandison'' (1753-54), are “epis... - Robertson, William (2,987 bytes)
7: ...'Edinburgh Review''. In 1759, he published his ''History of Scotland'' on the basis of which he was appoin...
9: ... In general, Robertson sought to situate Scottish history in a larger European context. He was critical of...
11: ...f the sequential progression of stages in stadial history: hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural, and co...
13: ...nce as God’s action through efficient causes in history and maintained that this providence could be appr... - Rush, Benjamin (3,005 bytes)
43: ... Contrasts Over Two Centuries," ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' 45 (1971): 507-552. - Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph (3,307 bytes)
11: ...had a large, but often understated, impact on the history of philosophy. Schelling’s work not only influ... - Schlegel, August Wilhelm and Friedrich (6,420 bytes)
7: ...is essays into the first and only volume of his ''History of Greek and Roman Poetry'' (1798). Traveling ar...
15: ...though the book’s enthusiasm for an “Aryan” history of language has been read as a precursor to the f... - Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst (6,364 bytes)
11: ... theology, New Testament criticism, hermeneutics, history of philosophy, and ethics. He also advanced the n...
17: ... ranks with the work of Calvin and Aquinas in the history of Christian thought. - Schlözer, August Ludwig von (1,801 bytes)
5: ...with a ‘statistical’ approach to contemporary history. The latter was realized especially in the ''Staa...
7: Another life-long project for Schlözer was the history of Russia. He saw the community of Slavic peoples... - Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von (8,303 bytes)
3: ...c audiences, he was also a respected professor of history. While profoundly influencing the thinkers of hi...
19: ...University of Jena (1789-91). He also authored ''History of the Thirty Years’ War'' (1791-92), which sup... - Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of (6,284 bytes)
23: ...of the Reason to be Virtuous,” ''Journal of the History of Philosophy'' 38.4 (2000): 529-548. - Shcherbatov, Prince Mikhail Mihailovich (2,198 bytes)
11: ...d in 1768 appointed “Historiographer.” His ''History of Russia'', though one of the first histories of... - Smollett, Tobias George (3,838 bytes)
7: ...is only lucrative publications being ''A Complete History of England'' (1757-58) and a Drury Lane farce ''T... - Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1,796 bytes)
7: ...me year, he was appointed to the chair of natural history in Pavia, where he also was in charge of the muse... - Stewart, Dugald (1,889 bytes)
13: ...ellectual Character,” ''British Journal for the History of Science'' 30 (1997). - Sumarokov, Aleksandr (1,746 bytes)
11: Leach, Robert and Victor Borovsky, ed., ''A History of Russian Theatre'', 1999. - Swedenborg, Emanuel (3,341 bytes)
3: ... influential Swede in eighteenth century European history. - Swift, Jonathan (8,417 bytes)
11: ...the quarrelsome brothers illuminates the troubled history of organized Christianity. Swift singles out Pet...
15: ...ffers different analytic perspectives on England, history, and humanity. Part I narrates Gulliver’s ship...
17: ... Brobdignag, which represents an earlier stage in history, but since Swift views human development within a... - Tatishchev,Vasily Nikitich (2,200 bytes)
7: ...ch of his information for his five-volume work, ''History of Russia''. He returned to Russia and enrolled i...
11: ...pleted his ''Geographical Lexicon'' and ''Russian History''. He died on July 14, 1750, in Boldino. - Tindal, Matthew (1,889 bytes)
15: Leslie Stephen, ''History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century'', 1... - Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques (9,196 bytes)
7: ...tions''. Turgot’s original contribution to the history of economic thought resides primarily in his theo... - Vanbrugh, Sir John (6,106 bytes)
3: ...anning one of the most culturally rich periods in history. He descended from refugee Protestants, who even... - Vico, Giovanni Battista (5,398 bytes)
5: ...ver, humans are capable of attaining knowledge of history, since it is the product of human activity. With...
9: ...ional. Drawing his material primarily from Roman history and law, the driving force behind this developmen...
11: ... historical movement constituted an ideal eternal history guided by divine providence.
13: ...us advocated the use of etymology in the study of history. Furthermore, he argued that social structures a... - Volkov, Fyodor (1,749 bytes)
5: ...e this was a momentous action in Russian cultural history, charging the public purse with the establishment...
11: Leach, Robert and Victor Borovsky, ed., ''A History of Russian Theatre'', 1999.
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