• Edward Stone (1702–1768) was a Church of England cleric who discovered the active ingredient of aspirin. Edward Stone was born in Princes Risborough,...
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  • Edward Stone may refer to: Edward Stone (baseball) (1909–1983), American Negro league baseball player Edward Stone (natural philosopher) (1702–1768),...
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    The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the...
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    including Edward Stone (natural philosopher) (1702–1768), English cleric and discoverer of active ingredient in aspirin Edward James Stone (1831–1897)...
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    384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics...
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    minerals, and so on. Today, "natural history" suggests observational descriptions aimed at popular audiences. Philosophers of science have suggested several...
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  • concept of natural law is closely related to the concept of natural rights and has libertarian and conservative proponents. Indeed, many philosophers, jurists...
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    Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a...
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    There have been many philosophers in recorded history who were atheists. This is a list of atheist philosophers with articles in Wikipedia. Living persons...
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  • scour the world in search of the Philosopher's Stone (賢者の石, Kenja no Ishi), in the hopes of restoring their bodies. Edward lost his left leg in a futile...
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  • Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of these early philosophers spanned...
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    Projection was the ultimate goal of Western alchemy. Once the philosopher's stone or powder of projection had been created, the process of projection...
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  • spring-driven clocks. November 5 – Edward Stone, English polymath (died 1768) Undated Giuseppa Barbapiccola, Italian natural philosopher, poet and translator (died...
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    Albertus Magnus (category Natural philosophers)
    was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval philosophers and thinkers. Canonized in 1931...
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  • of hallucinations. Philosopher William J. Abraham states "We do not generally believe that because some reports of ordinary natural objects sometimes involve...
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    Heaven & Earth (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Nixon (1995), Any Given Sunday (1999), W. (2008) and Snowden (2016). Many of Stone's films focus on controversial...
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    philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural...
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    physikos, meaning "natural philosopher" borrowing on the word φύσις or physis, meaning "nature") because they investigated natural causes, often excluding...
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    Is Almost Certainly False is a 2012 book by the philosopher Thomas Nagel. Nagel argues that the natural and social sciences are unable to account for the...
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    Latin world", with a particularly strong influence of Muslim philosophers being felt in natural philosophy, psychology and metaphysics. Islamic philosophy...
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  • "Pliny the Elder: the Natural History, Liber VIII". Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2011-01-19. THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF SIR EDWARD COKE Law, Jonathan;...
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    Leucippus (category 5th-century BC Greek philosophers)
    Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl. 5th century BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed...
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  • Burke, an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman and philosopher whose political principles were rooted in moral natural law and the Western heritage, is the one...
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  • was a Welsh clergyman, philosopher, and alchemist, who wrote in English. He is now remembered for his work in the field of natural magic. He also published...
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    Immanuel Kant (category Natural philosophers)
    Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's...
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    best-known version of the omnipotence paradox is the paradox of the stone: "Could God create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?" This is a paradoxical...
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    Theophrastus (redirect from On Stones)
    romanized: Theóphrastos, lit. 'godly phrased'; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native...
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    Lodestone (redirect from Lode stone)
    ): 'Literally 'way-stone', from the use of the magnet in guiding mariners.' Livingston, James D. (1996). Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets. Harvard...
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    of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper 1995 (editor Gail Levin). Individual poems include Byron Vazakas (1957) and John Stone (1985) inspired by Early...
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  • by philosopher Daniel Dennett and independent scholar Richard Carrier who argue that a cognitive apparatus for truth-finding can result from natural selection...
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