• Maria Mitchell
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    • Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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    • Karl Popper
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    • Alexandre Dumas, fils
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    • Alexandre Dumas, père
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    • Francesco Petrarch
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    • Herbert Marcuse
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    • Henri Poincaré
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    • Gregor Mendel
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    • Giuseppe Piazzi
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    • Othmar Spann
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    • Edmund Burke
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    • Paul Morphy
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    • Walther Hermann Nernst
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    • Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev
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    • Paul Morphy
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    • Giambattista Vico
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    • Roman Ingarden
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    • John Robert Gregg
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    • Alexander the Great
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    • Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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    • Rudolf Carnap
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