Geological theorist. Published "Sacred Theory of the Earth".
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Thomas Burnet
Commemorated ati
Sir Isaac Newton's house- detailed
plaque inside building at top of stairway directly facing entrance
Other Subjects
Jeremy Bentham
Born Spitalfields. A child prodigy, Bentham went to Oxford University aged 12. He chose not to practice law but to comment on it, institutions and society in general. He is associated with the doct...
4 memorials
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Died Weimar.
2 memorials
Piotr Ouspensky
Philosopher. Born in Moscow. He became a pupil of George Gurdjieff who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a high...
1 memorial
Sir Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Born in Riga into a wealthy family, which moved with him to London, in 1921. ...
2 memorials
René Descartes
Philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
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