Polymaths Polymaths Adolf Bastian ( Bremen, German Confederation 26 June 1826 - Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 2 February 1905) was a 19th century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolf Bastian"
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet ( February 22, 1796 – 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. Some French-language sources give his last name as Quetelet, with no accent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolphe Quetelet"
Albert Schweitzer, OM, ( January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany (now in Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France). He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Schweitzer"
Albrecht Dürer ( May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter, wood carver, engraver, and mathematician of Hungarian ancestry. He is best known for his woodcuts in series, including the Apocalypse (1498), two series on the crucifixion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498-1510) and the Little Passion (1510-1511) as well as many of his individual prints, such as Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513) and Melancholia I (1514). He made the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albrecht Dürer"
Aldous Leonard Huxley ( July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. He was a member of the famous Huxley family who produced a number of brilliant scientific minds. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, societal norms and ideals, and possible misapplications of science in human life. While his earlier concerns might be called " humanist," ultimately, he became quite interested in "spiritual" subjects like parapsychology and mystically based philosophy, which he also wrote about. By the end of his life, Huxley was considered, in certain circles, a 'leader of modern thought'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aldous Huxley"
Antonio de Ulloa ( January 12, 1716 – July 3, 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville, the son of an economist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antonio de Ulloa"
Athanasius Kircher (sometimes spelt Kirchner) ( May 2 1601?– 27 November 1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology and medicine. He made an early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs. One of the first people to observe microbes through a microsocope, he was thus ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Other contributions include his invention of the magic lantern which was a precursor to the slide machine and thus the cinema. ...more on Wikipedia about "Athanasius Kircher"
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ( 1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian- Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. He was born in Cordoba, Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Averroes"
Avicenna (Ibn Sina also known as al-Shaykh al-Rais (meaning the Leader among the wise men), in Persian and Arabic: شيخ الرئيس، ابوعلی حسين بن عبدالله بن سينا ), (full name is Abu Ali Husain ebn-e Abdollah Ebn-e Sina-e Balkhi or Pur-Sina or Ebn-e Sina ( 980 - 1037)) was a Muslim Persian physician, philosopher, and scientist. He was the author of 450 books on a wide range of subjects. Many of these concentrated on philosophy and medicine. He is considered by many to be "the father of modern medicine." George Sarton called Ibn Sina "the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places, and times." His most famous works are The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun (full title: al-qanun fil-tibb). His Latinized name is a anglicization of Ibn Sina, the short name by which he was known in Persia; however, he is most commonly known as Avicenna in the West. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avicenna"
The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS ( 18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an influential British logician, philosopher, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. A prolific writer, Bertrand Russell was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent liberal as well as a socialist and anti-war activist for most of his long life. Millions looked up to Russell as a prophet of the creative and rational life; at the same time, his stances on many topics were extremely controversial. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bertrand Russell"
ابوريحان بيرونى Abu Raihan Biruni (also, Abu Rihan Muhammad bin Ahmad, Al-Biruni, Alberuni Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی ; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني ) ( September 15 973– December 13 1048) was a Turkish mathematician, physicist, scholar, encyclopedist, philosopher, astronomer, traveller, historian, pharmacist, and teacher, who contributed greatly to the fields of astrology, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biruni"
Blaise Pascal ( June 19, 1623– August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blaise Pascal"
Charles Willson Peale ( April 15, 1741 - February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Willson Peale"
Sir Edward Howard Marsh ( November 18, 1872- January 13, 1953) was a British polymath, the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many individuals, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. A classical scholar and translator, he edited five anthologies of Georgian Poetry between 1912 and 1922, and he became Brooke's literary executor, editing the latter's Collected Poems in 1918. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Marsh" http://www.shortopedia.com, it's as simple as that!
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) ( October 27, probably 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. Erasmus was the most important humanist who wrote in a "pure" latin style. He was known to be the inspiration of Martin Luther and the reformation. He prepared new Latin and Greek additions to the New Testament. Erasmus wrote Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, and On Civility in Children. ...more on Wikipedia about "Erasmus"
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Bacon"
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. ( February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was a Victorian polymath, British anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Galton"
(Futures techniques)
A future history is a postulated history of the future.
Some science fiction authors construct as a common background for fiction.
The author may include a timeline of events for this history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Futures techniques"
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe ( March 18, 1919 – January 5, 2001) (known as Elizabeth Anscombe, published as G. E. M. Anscombe) was a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became on authority on his work, and edited and translated many books drawn from his writings. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, logic, semiotics, and language theory. Her 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy", introduced the term " consequentialism" into the English language. She was also a theologian, and contributed extensively to the fields of ethics, especially to the modern revival of virtue ethics. ...more on Wikipedia about "G. E. M. Anscombe"
Gabriela Mistral ( April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. The central themes in her poems are love, a mother's love, painful personal memories and sorrow and recovery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gabriela Mistral"
Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet ( 27 December 1773– 15 December 1857) was an exuberant polymath from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. He pioneered the study of aerodynamics over four decades before the development of powered flight. He served for the Whig party in Parliament, and helped found the Polytechnic Institution, serving as its chairman for many years. He was the uncle of the mathematician Arthur Cayley. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Cayley" Must see http://www.shortopedia.com
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (born November 30, 1912) is an African American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director. He has been an important and creative force in all of these fields. He began his public career as a freelance fashion and personality photographer in Chicago, but his first substantial work came as a documentary photographer with the Farm Security Administration. He has also performed as a jazz pianist. He directed a number of movies during the " Blaxploitation" phase of American cinema, though the films cannot be classified that way. He was a notable campaigner for civil rights in the US. He has also been the subject of film and print profiles (notably "Half Past Autumn" ( 2000)). ...more on Wikipedia about "Gordon Parks"
Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (alternatively von Bingen or Bingensis) ( September 16 1098 – September 17, 1179) was a German magistra , monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hildegard of Bingen"
Hossein Gol-e-Golab ( Persian حسین گل گلب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, 1896-) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hossein Gol-e-Golab"
Ignacy Jan Paderewski ( November 6, 1860 – June 29, 1941) was a Polish virtuoso pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ignacy Jan Paderewski"
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