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Aristotle
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Alberts, Bruce
Bruce Alberts
American scientist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Jacob van Maerlant
Dutch poet
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French humanist
James Rhyne Killian, Jr.
United States statesman
Alexander Neckam
British scientist and theologian
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and anthropologist
Julia Carabias Lillo
Mexican ecologist and environmentalist
Lewes, detail of a pencil drawing by Anne Gliddon, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Henry Lewes
English philosopher, actor, and scientist
Josephson, Brian D.
Brian D. Josephson
British physicist
Sir James George Frazer
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Jacob Bronowski
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Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
C.P. Snow
C.P. Snow
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