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William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among...
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century...
In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...