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  1. Adams, John (2,818 bytes)
    5: ...perience as one devoid of the effects of European history and referred to the “exceptional” events that...
  2. Austen, Jane (8,522 bytes)
    3: ...sic to her innovation is a feminized treatment of history. Austen is also studied for her sophisticated poi...
    7: ... read widely in her father's extensive library of history, sermons, poetry, drama, and French and Latin tex...
  3. Bailly, Jean-Sylvain (1,994 bytes)
    3: .... From 1775-87, he published five volumes of his history of astronomy, which combine historical research b...
  4. Bodmer, Johann Jakob (2,003 bytes)
    5: ...literature. By 1725 he was the head of Helvetian history at the University of Zurich and had opened a publ...
  5. Boerhaave, Hermann (2,672 bytes)
    5: ...y, consisting of physical examination, anamnesis, history of the disease, and autopsy findings.
  6. Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (4,920 bytes)
    5: ... History of England'' (1730-31) discusses English history to 1640 as a struggle between “liberty” (base...
  7. Bonaparte, Napoleon (5,706 bytes)
    3: ... and administrative reforms changed the course of history. Through ambition, intellect, and sheer drive, N...
  8. Boucher, François (5,147 bytes)
    7: ...returning from Italy, he worked on perfecting his history paintings with the intent of gaining membership i...
  9. Brown, Lancelot "Capability" (3,095 bytes)
    7: ...son estate in novelist [[Richardson, Samuel]]'s ''History of Sir Charles Grandison'' (1742) seems designed ...
  10. Breitinger, Johann Jakob (1,807 bytes)
    3: ...official, Bodmer studied philology, theology, and history at the University of Zurich. Bodmer’s first pr...
  11. Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (3,328 bytes)
    7: ...tanical collection to include a zoo and a natural history museum and research center. In 1753, in recognit...
  12. Campomanes, Pedro Rodriguez de (1,654 bytes)
    3: ...ventually named President of the Royal Academy of History. As a statesman he became the treasurer of the Co...
  13. Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo (2,984 bytes)
    11: ... autobiography, his most famous works include his history essays ''Confutazione della Storia del Governo Ve...
  14. Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise (3,338 bytes)
    11: ...ificance bridges many aspects of the intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe. Despite her sex, s...
  15. Cleland, John (1,975 bytes)
    3: ...tion and has gained a certain eminence within the history of the novel.
  16. Cobbett, William (2,129 bytes)
    5: ...rks are ''Rural Rides'', ''Cottage Economy'', ''A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Irel...
  17. Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas Caritat, Marquis de (6,577 bytes)
    9: ...espite many reversals and considerable suffering, history is basically progressive; over the course of the ...
    11: ...of reason. The decision to concentrate on Western history stemmed from Condorcet’s conviction that Europe...
    17: ...an unfruitful topic of study. While agreeing that history is a record of prejudice and misery, he believed ...
  18. David, Jacques-Louis (8,270 bytes)
    5: ...and David entered the studio of the Neo-Classical history painter, Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). In 1766,...
    22: ...ork, choosing a famous military defeat from Greek history, the brave but ill-fated attempt of the three-hun...
  19. De la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Ramon (4,141 bytes)
    5: ...'', that Ramon de la Cruz gained his place in the history of Spanish Literature.
  20. Defoe, Daniel (6,939 bytes)
    9: ...foe mixed fact and fiction as he reviewed English history and defended William’s right to rule. He rose ...
    11: ...stories favoring English and Scottish unity. His History of the Union, hastily written in 1707, provided a...
    17: ...tory of the Devil'' (1726), and ''An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions'' (1727).
  21. Desmoulins, Camille (1,888 bytes)
    5: ... publication of his ''Brissot Unmasked'' and of ''History of the Brissotins'' ignited hostilities against t...
  22. Edgeworth, Maria (3,866 bytes)
    17: ...h, ''Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writing: Language, History, Politics'' 1997.
  23. Euler, Leonhard (3,534 bytes)
    3: ...er was one of the most prolific mathematicians in history and contributed substantially to almost every bra...
    17: ...kington, “Leonhard Euler,” ''Great Lives from History'', Vol. 3, 1989.
  24. Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo (4,917 bytes)
    7: ..., (7) literature, aesthetics and linguistics, (8) history and criticism, (9) moral issues, dogma, religion...
  25. Ferguson, Adam (4,093 bytes)
    9: ...during and influential work was ''An Essay on the History of Civil Society'' (1767). In general, the ''Ess...
    11: ...nt was human beings as they are actually found in history, and humans are always found in social settings. ...
  26. Fernández de Moratín, Leandro and Nicolas (5,459 bytes)
    15: Fitz-Maurice Kelly, ''A History of Spanish Literature'', New York, 1906.
  27. Fielding, Henry (4,695 bytes)
    3: ...best known as the author of the comic novel ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'' (1749), wrote poetry,...
    7: ... (1741), and then a comic novel of his own, ''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his F...
    9: ...rlier novel. Providing what Fielding called a “history of the world in general,” ''Tom Jones'' follows...
    13: ...ey from This World to the Next'' and the ironic ''History of the Life of Jonathan Wild the Great''. ''Jona...
  28. Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (3,457 bytes)
    5: ... In 1742, his ''La Vie de Corneille'' traced the history of theater up to the time of his uncle. In this ...
  29. Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (5,192 bytes)
    7: ...ially sanctioned style. He exhibited subjects in history painting, the most highly esteemed category among...
  30. Gibbon, Edward (5,308 bytes)
    3: A historian best known for ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. B...
    7: ...ith Deyverdun in Lausanne, where he completed his history on 27 June 1787. He published volumes four, five,...
    9: ...ing for anyone interested in ancient and medieval history, and it is valued for its method and style. Ther...
  31. Godwin, William (4,755 bytes)
    7: In 1783, Godwin anonymously published ''The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham'', c...
  32. Goldsmith, Oliver (3,110 bytes)
    5: ... imaginable genre: poetry, drama, fiction, essay, history, biography, and natural science. Although his wr...
  33. Gottsched, Johann Christoph (3,384 bytes)
    7: ...1730) and the periodical'' Essays on the Critical History of the German Language, Poetics, and Rhetoric'' (...
  34. Gray, Thomas (2,582 bytes)
    3: ...he rest of his life, being appointed Professor of History and Modern Languages in 1768.
  35. Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (3,503 bytes)
    3: ...e public. His subject range was broad, including history paintings, portraits and genre scenes; the latter...
    5: ...im the opportunity to work within the category of history painting, most highly respected in academic circl...
    7: ...o discover the Royal Academy, after reviewing his history subjects, classified him a genre painter--the inf...
  36. Haydn, Franz Joseph (6,222 bytes)
    11: ...e of the most celebrated and lucrative in musical history. He was wildly acclaimed by English audiences an...
  37. Haywood, Eliza (3,982 bytes)
    9: ...ls are ''The Fortunate Foundlings'' (1744), T''he History of Miss Betty Thoughtless'' (1753), and ''Jenny a...
  38. Helvétius, Claude Adrien (3,261 bytes)
    9: ...me'' are considered two of the great books in the history of the development of the human mind, and they gr...
  39. Herder, Johann Gottfried (3,751 bytes)
    7: ... wide-ranging interest and studies in aesthetics, history, language, psychology, and philosophy, make his a...
    9: ...istory of Humanity'', Herder outlines a theory of history which rejects the dominant Enlightenment view of ...
    11: ... of consciousness. His interest in language, art, history, and psychology, could all be understood as inves...
  40. Hogarth, William (5,129 bytes)
    13: ...ul before Felix'' 1748, ''The Ascension'', 1757), history painting (''Sigismunda'' 1759), and an aesthetic ...
  41. Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius) (1,849 bytes)
    3: ...infallibility, and sought, on the basis of church history, to subordinate the pope to the church as a whole...
    5: ...Hontheim also published two valuable works on the history of Trier. He was reconciled with the church short...
  42. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (6,658 bytes)
    7: ... with lectures in experimental physics, universal history, and ancient languages and literature (from [[Li...
  43. Hutcheson, Francis (5,502 bytes)
    23: ...cis Hutcheson’s Philosophy,” ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' 57.2 (1996): 277-295.
  44. De Isla y Rojo, padre Jose Francisco (5,991 bytes)
    5: ...hout knowing French, using only a dictionary, the History of Teodiosio, by Flechier. He also translated th...
    11: ...tor should be well versed in rhetoric, geography, history, philosophical systems, theology, music, medicine...
  45. Jea, John (1,595 bytes)
    5: ...England, published his autobiography, ''The Life, History and Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher'...
  46. Jefferson, Thomas (4,872 bytes)
    13: ...force of religion in the western world throughout history and the resultant conflicts that occurred when on...
  47. Johnson, Samuel (7,390 bytes)
    17: Johnson’s short novel ''The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'' (1759) tells t...
  48. Joseph II (4,713 bytes)
    17: Robert A. Kann. ''A History of the Habsburg Empire'', 1974.
  49. Jovellanos y Ramirez, Gaspar Melchor de (3,550 bytes)
    3: ...orks for the Sociedad Patriotica, the Academy of History, Academy of San Fernando, Academy Española, and ...
  50. Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von (1,735 bytes)
    3: ...iter, whose work ranged from economics, politics, history, philosophy, and aesthetics. As an economist, Jus...
    9: H. W. Koch, ''A History of Prussia'', 1978.

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