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Prometheus stole fire from the workshop and hid it in a giant fennel stock. Prometheus then gave the fire to humans. He not only gave men the fire but also showed them what they could do with it. According to Hesiod, he showed them how fire could be used to make metals and other vital technologies.
Gideon was one of many leaders in the book of Judges who saved the Israelites from various enemies. He most likely lived around the 12th century BCE and his story is told throughout the chapters of Judges 6-8.
May 27, 2024 · Galileo, the brilliant Italian polymath, revolutionized our understanding of the universe through his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and contributions to scientific methodology.
- Albert Van Helden
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
Sep 23, 2020 · Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563 - c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE. The events of his life are largely ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Thomas Hobbes (born April 5, 1588, Westport, Wiltshire, England—died December 4, 1679, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire) was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651).
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- Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his master...
- Hobbes’s father was a quick-tempered vicar who, disgraced after engaging in a brawl at his own church door, disappeared, abandoning his three child...
- For nearly the whole of his adult life, Thomas Hobbes was employed by members of the wealthy and aristocratic Cavendish family and their associates...
- Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy influenced not only successors who adopted the social-contract framework—John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an...
May 29, 2024 · Hernán Cortés (born 1485, Medellín, near Mérida, Extremadura, Castile [Spain]—died December 2, 1547, Castilleja de la Cuesta, near Sevilla) was a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Apr 8, 2019 · Who was Pericles? Pericles lifted Athens into a golden age through his support of the arts, architecture, philosophy, and democracy building.
