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Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
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Born June 5, 1757 • France
Died May 5, 1808 (aged 50) • Rueil-Malmaison • France
Notable Works “Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme”
Jacob Moleschott
Dutch-Italian physiologist and philosopher
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Julien Offroy de La Mettrie
French physician and philosopher
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
John Scott Haldane, drawing by Tom van Oss, 1930; in a private collection
John Scott Haldane
British physiologist
Diogenes Of Apollonia
Greek philosopher
Alcmaeon
Greek philosopher and physiologist
Hippon
Greek philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Büchner, Ludwig
Ludwig Büchner
German physician and philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher and author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher

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