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Eadweard James Muybridge ( pron.: / ˌ ɛ d w ər d ˈ m aɪ b r ɪ dʒ / ; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name. He immigrated to the United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous.
Eadweard Muybridge
Unit 731
Unit 731 ( 731部隊 , Nana-san-ichi butai ? , Chinese : 731部队 ) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II .Anaximander ( pron.: / ə ˌ n æ k s ɨ ˈ m æ n d ər / ; Greek : Ἀναξίμανδρος Anaximandros ; c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus , a city of Ionia ; Milet in modern Turkey .
Anaximander
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz ( German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈlaɪbnɪts] [ 4 ] or [ˈlaɪpnɪts] [ 5 ] ) (July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher .
Gottfried Leibniz
Best of all possible worlds
The phrase " the best of all possible worlds " ( French : le meilleur des mondes possibles ; German : Die beste aller möglichen Welten ) was coined by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal ( Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil ). The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy , or his attempt to solve the problem of evil .
John Law (economist)
John Law ( baptised 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV . In 1716 Law established the Banque Générale in France, a private bank, but three-quarters of the capital consisted of government bills and government-accepted notes, effectively making it the first central bank of the nation.
Joseph, Baron Ducreux (June 26, 1735 – July 24, 1802) was a French portrait painter , pastelist , miniaturist , and engraver , who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France , and was able to resume his career after the French Revolution .
Joseph Ducreux
Luigi Russolo (30 April 1883 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). [ 1 ] He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of noise music concerts in 1913–14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. [ 2 ]
Luigi Russolo
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin ( Russian : Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин [ note 1 ] ; IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn] ; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut .
Yuri Gagarin
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher ( pron.: / ˈ ɛ ʃ ər / , Dutch: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər] (The mysterious disappearance (or not) of the physicist who discovered neutrons (or not).
Although at the time of his disappearance, no one had conceived that an atomic bomb was possible, some biographers have posited that Majorana was quietly a few steps ahead of everyone and wanted no part of what was to come.Les Paul , de nombre real Lester William Polsfuss ( Waukesha , Wisconsin , Estados Unidos , 9 de junio de 1915 - Nueva York , Estado de Nueva York , 13 de agosto de 2009 ), fue un guitarrista de jazz estadounidense y una de las más importantes figuras en el desarrollo de instrumentos musicales eléctricos y técnicas de grabación .