Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library…

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a biological Janus, at once a highly competent taxonomist in a traditional mold and a bold, almost…

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A careful examination of the Puritan mind and the intellectual development of seventeenth-century New England.…

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Venantius Fortunatus, a master of the short praise poem and a canonical Christian Latin poet, wrote eleven volumes of hymns,…

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Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

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After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

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Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator''s…

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Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…

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Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. "The Dance Language and…

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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction…

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