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By Ari Ben-Menahem

This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys a hundred generations of serious thinkers, delivering greater than 2,000 distinct biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark at the background of technological know-how and expertise. This six-volume masterwork additionally comprises 380 articles summarizing the time-line of rules within the top fields of technological know-how, expertise, arithmetic and philosophy.

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1550 No. nine. The Oxford assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208 No. 10. Darwinism advert Absurdum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2331 No. eleven. The lengthy Arm of the Orthodoxy, or – did Moses write the Torah? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2518 No. 12. Tesla vs. Edison, or – the ‘War of the Currents’ . . . . . 2640 No. thirteen. The Piltdown Forgery, or – the ‘War of the Skulls’, or – the best clinical fraud of all time . . . . . . . . . 3256 No. 14. World-War I – The inauguration of Chemical battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3297 No. 15. The Bookburners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4249 No. sixteen. Pseudoscience, Antiscience, Nonscience, Postmodernism, medical Illiteracy and Superstition, or – the absence of proof isn't really proof of absence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4299 No. 17. Martyr of Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4514 No. 18. No. 19. No. 20. No. 21. World-War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From the move to the Swastika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The fuel Centrifuge tale, or – Stealing the fireplace . . . . the good Soviet Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4537 4557 4643 4945 Worldviews Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch three I Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 II Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 III Cicero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 IV Seneca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 V Leonardo da Vinci. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735 VI Michel de Montaigne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 VII Francis Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958 VIII Johannes Kepler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982 IX Blaise Pascal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043 X Baruch Spinoza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102 XI Isaac Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131 XII David Hume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263 XIII Leonhard Euler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274 XIV Immanuel Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338 XV Pierre-Simon de Laplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1402 XVI Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . . . . . . . . . . 1437 XVII Carl F. Gauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1472 XVIII Georg W. F. Hegel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580 XIX Arthur Schopenhauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1648 xxvi Ch four Ch five Worldviews XX Søren Kierkegaard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979 XXI Louis Pasteur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999 XXII Karl Marx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2058 XXIII Charles Darwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206 XXIV Friedrich Nietzsche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2433 XXV ´ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510 Henri Poincare XXVI Maxim Gorky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2682 XXVII Sigmund Freud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2700 XXVIII David Hilbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2936 XXIX Albert Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3029 XXX G. H. Hardy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3154 XXXI Bertrand Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3201 XXXII Alfred North Whitehead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3203 XXXIII Franz Kafka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3221 XXXIV Ludwig von Mises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3251 XXXV D’Arcy Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3374 XXXVI Oswald Spengler .

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