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Isaac Newton (1643-1727) discovers the refration of light. Canvas.
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Isaac Newton (1643-1727) discovers the refration of light. Canvas.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developed a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. Canvas.
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in E...

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist and evolutionary scientist. His 1859 book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (usually abbreviated to "The Origin of Species") established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. Watercolour, 1840.
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist and evolutionary scientist. His...

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist and evolutionary scientist, working in his study room. His 1859 book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (usually abbreviated to "The Origin of Species") established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. Canvas, 1858.
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist and evolutionary scientist, worki...

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the "radio". see also 18-01-01/63
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Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laure...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmen's Association. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Canvas, 1875.
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and r...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmen's Association. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Canvas, 19th century.
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and r...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmen's Association. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Photography, 19th century.
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and r...

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a 19th-century German political philosopher. With his partner, the better known Karl Marx, Engels developed communist theory, co-authoring "The Communist Manifesto" (1848). Engels also edited several volumes of "Das Kapital" after Marx's death. Photography from 1891.
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Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a 19th-century German political philosopher. Wi...

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778). The French pilosopher in his study. Canvas
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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778). The French pilosopher in his study...

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Wallace's independent proposal of a theory of evolution by natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to reveal his own more developed and researched, but unpublished, theory sooner than he had intended.
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropo...

Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) was a German classical archaeologist, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Mycenaean sites, such as Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. Photography from the 1891 publication of "Schliemann's Excarvations".
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Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) was a German classical archaeologist, an advocat...