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Socrates’ defence was very carefully heard in the presence of the Academicians in the public assembly over a few days, and it produced no little disquiet in the minds of the judges, whose minds turned…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1651
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To the Most Serene Great Prince of Etruria, Hero and Admirable Man, Cosmo the Third
To the Most Serene Great Prince.
In this era of ours, Most Serene Great Prince, when the various branches of…
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji, Jacob Rosales
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Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Florence, Italy)
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1654
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[ . . . ] Since, therefore, Thou hast favored me with kindness and hast crowned me with honor and glory and Thou hast made me worthy of knowing a bit of the science of medicine, therefore I wish to…
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob Tsahalon
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1665
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Third Part of the Ethics on the Origins and Nature of the Affects
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Baruch Spinoza
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
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1675
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ḥaver:Do you think languages are eternal, and have no beginning?
Kuzari:They are invented and instituted by common consent, rather than natural; this is evident from their composition of nouns, verbs…
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Jacob Abendana
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1663
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You asked how an object can move without being touched, and this indeed is a puzzling matter to all sages. To explain this issue, I must first discuss some rudiments of the science of music, for if…
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Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1629
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
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1904
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1919
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Werner Sombart is undoubtedly one of the most striking personalities in the Germany of to-day. Born in 1863, he has devoted himself to research in economics, and has contributed much that is valuable…
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Mortimer Epstein
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1913
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For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
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Paul L. Rosenfeld
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New York, United States of America
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1916