The World’s 100 Greatest People Audio Collection
by InteliQuest Learning Systems
Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael
Michelangelo, Rembrandt Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso
Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain
George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy – It made me want to read Eliot like Middlemarch, but not Tolstoy
John Milton, Charles Dickens – Tale of Two Cities – about French Revolution
Virgil, Dante Alighieri – Dante pioneered idea of semi-divine female worship object
Jonas Salk – Salk vs. Sabin on vaccine, Sabin’s was used more later, cheaper starting on the writers now
Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming
Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie
Marie Curie and husband Joseph Curie discovered radioactive elements like lithium
Gregor Mendel, Joseph Lister – genetics and carbolic acid to kill microbes in surgery
Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur
Galileo, Isaac Newton
Newton frequently insane, feud with Hook
Galen, Nicolaus Copernicus
The Wright Brothers, Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford – Alexander Graham Bell was most interested in teaching the deaf. Henry Ford spied on his employees and had other bad qualities.
Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison
Archimedes, Johann Gutenberg
James Cook, Roald Andersen
somewhat better explorers – Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, more brutal explorers
Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus
Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche – Nietzsche”s work was distorted by his sister
Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant – Kant – a priori, ”Critique of Pure Reason” means you can’t approach anything without bring your a priori assumptions, so there is no such thing as ”pure reason”
Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau – Wrote ”Social Contract” but the idea was originated by Locke. Rousseau father of the French Revolution and romanticism.
Rene Descartes, John Locke – Descartes – doubt received wisdom, dualism, foundationalism (which is doubted by postmodernism); Locke – blank slate, influenced Jefferson on rights of man
Francis Bacon – Mark Noll on later use by fundamentalists of ”Baconian science”
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle