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Statue of Nostradamus

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

United States electoral college map showing number of electoral votes by state.

How Does the Electoral College Work?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait. Oil on canvas, 1887.

Rediscovered Artists: 6 Big Names That Time Almost Forgot

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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In Nicolas Malebranche
(1674–75; Search After Truth). Criticism of its theology by others led him to amplify his views in Traité de la nature et de la grâce (1680; Treatise of Nature and Grace). His Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion (1688; “Dialogues on Metaphysics and on…
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influence of Descartes

In Cartesianism: Malebranche and occasionalism
…directly from Descartes’s writings is The Search After Truth (1674–75), by Malebranche. His position, known as occasionalism, was adopted also by Geulincx and the French philosopher Géraud de Cordemoy. Malebranche was convinced by the argument—urged most strongly by the French skeptic Simon Foucher—that, because they are so radically different, Cartesian…
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