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Bellum omnium contra omnes. Signature. Thomas Hobbes ( / hɒbz / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
John B. Watson. John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. [2] Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the ...
Institutions. University of Jena. Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. [1] He became a professor of chemistry and pharmacy ...
Las Vegas, [6] often known simply as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States. [7] [8] Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city ...
John Law (bishop) John Law (1745–1810) was an English mathematician and clergyman who began his career as a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and went on to become chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Church of Ireland bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh (1782–1787), Killala and Achonry (1787–1795), and finally of Elphin ...
John Law (novel), an 1864 novel by William Henry Ainsworth. John Law (writer) (1929–1970), British TV comedy writer. John Law, pseudonym of Margaret Harkness (1854–1923), English journalist and writer. John Phillip Law (1937–2008), American film actor. "John Law", a song by Dropkick Murphys first released on The Singles Collection, Volume 1.
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( / ˈhændəl /; [a] baptised Georg Fried (e)rich Händel, [b] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) [3] [c] was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his ...
