French-born British engineers: Who are Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom?
They shaped the engineering of the 19th century with the technical solutions they brought to the construction of underwater tunnels and railway bridges.
They shaped the engineering of the 19th century with the technical solutions they brought to the construction of underwater tunnels and railway bridges.
Brunelleschi's first important work is the dome of the Church of Santa Mana del Fiore, also known as the Florence Cathedral.
His main area of interest is experimental psychology. According to him, in the process of perception, the individual is not a passive recorder of sensory data, but an active element of the process.
He argued that contemporary civilization stems from Christianity and that the last stage of history will be completed with the application of the principles of equality and brotherhood advocated by Jesus to society.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907 for showing that alcoholic fermentation is a chemical process, not a physiological one.
Bunsen, who had studied the organic compounds of arsenic in his early studies, lost his right eye in an explosion of cacodyl cyanide during an experiment in 1837. Moreover, during his research, which lasted about six years, he nearly died from arsenic poisoning.
Burckhardt, who has been close to art and architecture since his childhood, turned his attention to Italy and the Renaissance after Franz Kugler's art history lessons, which is considered a new discipline.
Breasted conducted research in Egypt and studied the history of Egypt and the cultures of the Nile Valley with a contemporary understanding, of their social and cultural development.
The story of his life as a child with an extraordinary voice, an orphan Armenian boy, starting in Kütahya, Turkey, developing as a genius, and ending in a mental hospital in France.
He introduced various analysis tools such as marginal utility curves, total cost curves, and marginal revenues into economics.