Contents Index

Biographies

  1. John Abernethy
  2. George Adams
  3. Aeschylus
  4. Cornelius Agrippa
  5. Albertus Magnus
  6. Alexander I of Russia
  7. Vittorio Alfieri
  8. André Marie Ampère
  9. Roald Amundsen
  10. Thomas Aquinas
  11. Lodovico Ariosto
  12. Aristotle
  13. Jane Austen
  14. Lord Bacon
  15. William Baffin
  16. Joanna Baillie
  17. Sir Joseph Banks
  18. Anna Letitia Barbauld
  19. Casper Bauhin
  20. Sir Francis Beaufort
  21. Francis Beaumont
  22. William Beckford
  23. William Blake
  24. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
  25. Charles Bonnet
  26. James Boswell
  27. Robert Boyle
  28. Charles Brockden Brown
  29. Comte de Buffon
  30. Edmund Burke
  31. Frances Burney (d'Arblay)
  32. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  33. John Calvin
  34. Catherine the Great of Russia
  35. Andrea Cesalpino
  36. Hester Chapone
  37. Charles I
  38. Charles II
  39. Lord Chesterfield
  40. George Cheyne
  41. Claire Clairmont
  42. Mary Jane Clairmont
  43. Colin Clive
  44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  45. Etienne Condillac
  46. Captain Cook
  47. Abraham Cowley
  48. William Cowper
  49. Oliver Cromwell
  50. Peter Cushing
  51. Baron Cuvier
  52. John Dalton
  53. Dante Alghieri
  54. Charles Darwin
  55. Erasmus Darwin
  56. John Davis
  57. Sir Humphry Davy
  58. Denis Diderot
  59. Johann Konrad Dippel
  60. John Dryden
  61. Eloisa
  62. Chevalier Charles Geneviève Timothée d'Éon
  63. Michael Faraday
  64. Terence Fisher
  65. John Fletcher
  66. James Fordyce
  67. Benjamin Franklin
  68. Sir John Franklin
  69. Sir Martin Frobisher
  70. Galen
  71. Luigi Galvani
  72. Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss
  73. John Gay
  74. Stephanie Felicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Comtesse de Genlis
  75. Edward Gibbon
  76. William Gilbert
  77. William Godwin
  78. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  79. Oliver Goldsmith
  80. Thomas Gray
  81. Dr. Gregory
  82. Nehemiah Grew
  83. Richard Hakluyt
  84. Stephen Hales
  85. John Hampden
  86. David Hartley
  87. William Harvey
  88. Samuel Hearne
  89. Sir William Herschel
  90. James Hervey
  91. James Hogg
  92. Thomas Jefferson Hogg
  93. Homer
  94. Robert Hooke
  95. Henry Hudson
  96. David Hume
  97. Leigh Hunt
  98. Fanny Imlay
  99. Gilbert Imlay
  100. Edward Jenner
  101. Samuel Johnson
  102. Boris Karloff
  103. John Keats
  104. Henry Kellett
  105. Vicesimus Knox
  106. Carl Laemmle
  107. Chevalier de Lamarck
  108. Charles Lamb
  109. Julien de Lamettrie
  110. Johann Kaspar Lavater
  111. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
  112. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  113. Matthew Lewis
  114. Carolus Linnaeus
  115. Charles Lloyd
  116. John Locke
  117. Catherine Macaulay
  118. Sir Robert John le Mesurier McClure
  119. Marcello Malpighi
  120. Pierre Louis Moureau de Maupertuis
  121. Henry Milner
  122. John Milton
  123. Napoleon Bonaparte
  124. Jacques Necker
  125. John Turberville Needham
  126. Sir Isaac Newton
  127. William Nicholson
  128. Hans Christian Oersted
  129. Georg S. Ohm
  130. Paracelsus
  131. Thomas Love Peacock
  132. Richard Brinsley Peake
  133. Jack Pierce
  134. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
  135. Plato
  136. Pliny
  137. Plutarch
  138. John Polidori
  139. Alexander Pope
  140. Dr. Richard Price
  141. Joseph Priestley
  142. Matthew Prior
  143. Ann Radcliffe
  144. John Ray
  145. Francesco Redi
  146. Samuel Richardson
  147. Johann Wolfgang Ritter
  148. Jean Baptiste Robinet
  149. Sir John Ross
  150. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  151. Sir Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford
  152. Sappho
  153. August Wilhelm Schlegel
  154. Walter Scott
  155. Anna Seward
  156. Shaftesbury
  157. Elizabeth, Lady Shelley
  158. Harriet Shelley
  159. Mary Shelley
  160. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  161. Percy Florence Shelley
  162. Sir Timothy Shelley
  163. William Shelley
  164. Sir Philip Sidney
  165. J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi
  166. Adam Smith
  167. Robert Southey
  168. Lazzaro Spallanzani
  169. Madame de Staël
  170. Bram Stoker
  171. Kenneth Strickfaden
  172. Jan Swammerdam
  173. Emanuel Swedenborg
  174. Jonathan Swift
  175. Charles Maruice de Talleyrand-Perigord
  176. Torquato Tasso
  177. Edward John Trelawny
  178. Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
  179. Andreas Vesalius
  180. Virgil
  181. Comte de Volney
  182. Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio Volta
  183. Voltaire
  184. Horace Walpole
  185. Adam Weishaupt
  186. James Whale
  187. Mary Wollstonecraft
  188. William Wordsworth
  189. Xenophon
  190. Edward Young
  191. Zeno of Citium