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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Roman scholar
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
St. Isidore, detail of a mural; in Sevilla Cathedral.
St. Isidore of Sevilla
Spanish theologian
Marcus Terentius Varro
Roman author
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile
Italian philosopher
William Smellie
William Smellie
Scottish publisher and scientist
Vincent Of Beauvais
French scholar
Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
British essayist and physician
Bar Hebraeus
Syrian philosopher
Hugh of Saint-Victor, undated engraving.
Hugh of Saint-Victor
French theologian
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
American entrepreneur
Leonard Feather
American jazz journalist, producer, and songwriter
ʿAlī Pasha Mubārak
Egyptian administrator and author