by Beat Schindler | Sep 21, 2024 | You
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (born 281 years ago / died 230 years ago) discovered oxygen (246 years ago) and hydrogen (241 years ago), making it the beginning of modern chemistry. He was an aristocrat and member of the Ferme générale — an operation that collected tax...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 19, 2024 | You
Mary Wollstonecraft (born 265 years ago / died 227 years ago), was a women rights advocate at a time when women were denied the most basic of rights. She knew women are not a mere copy of men. Dark ages As if Mary Wollstonecraft didn’t exist, religionists of the type...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 17, 2024 | You
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born 312 years ago / died 246 years ago) resided in France when he published his “The Social Contract”. “The fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody”… …got Rousseau charged with blasphemy and denounced as the...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 16, 2024 | You
(born 460 years ago / died 382 years ago) is according to Wikipedia the father of astronomy, physics, and modern science. A catholic word-user himself, Galileo’s work nevertheless angered his catholicist chiefs, the word-masters. That was enough for the catholic...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 13, 2024 | You
Everybody knows In the beginning is the word. A word by any other word is a word. A word by itself doesn’t do or have (anything). For a word to do or have (anything) takes a word-user first. No one knows How a word is a word in the beginning. What word-users must do...
