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Coelius Apicius

Peter Abelard

John Abercrombie

Tom Marcello, 1976
James Adair

George Adams

Tom Marcello, 1976
John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826)
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
(Wikipedia)
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
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Joseph Addison

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Pierre-Auguste Adet

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Aeschines.

Roman copy after a Greek original of the late 4th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
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Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Georg Andreas Agricola

Robert Aitken

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Johannes Abraham Albers

Leon Battista Alberti

Henry Aldrich

Saint Clement of Alexandria

Vittorio Alfieri

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Ira Allen

Image from University of Vermont Founder's Day, May 1, 1897 (1897) by Perley Orman Ray et al.
Richard Allestree

Anacreon

Roman Marble, Imperial Period (2nd or 3rd Century). Photo by Eric Gaba / Wikimedia Commons.
James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSir Edmund Anderson

John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot, MD, Ph.D., author of the John Bull pamphlets, from a painting by Godfrey Knoeller (Public domain ; Wikipedia
Archimedes

Aretaeus of Cappadocia

marquis d' René-Louis de Voyer Argenson

Lodovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
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Étienne Arnal

Thomas Augustine Arne

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Arrian

Roger Ascham

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Alexander Baring, Ashburton

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Jean Astruc

Francis Atterbury

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Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint

Marcus Aurelius

Franklin Bache

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
William Bailey

Adrien Baillet

Henry Baker

Angelo Maria Bandini

Francois Barbé-Marbois, marquis de

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Joel Barlow

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Barrister of the Middle Temple.

Middle Temple, London. Photo by user The Lud / Wikimedia Commons.
Isaac Barrow

Published 1811
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Jean Jacques Barthélemy

Benjamin Smith Barton

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William Bartram

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William Pulteney Bath, Earl of

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Richard Baxter

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Pierre Bayle

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Frédérique Sophie Wilhelmine Margrave de Bareith

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James Beattie

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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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Francis Beaumont

Cesare Beccaria, marchese di

Thomas Beddoes

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The Venerable Bede

Jeremy Belknap

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From a portrait by Henry Sargent in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
Jeremy Bentham

Guido Bentivoglio

William Bentley

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George Berkeley

Claude Berthollet, Louis, comte

Theod. Beza

Sir William Blackstone

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
Jean-Pierre Blanchard

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Steven Blankaart

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fresco by Andrea del Castagno (c. 1450)
Jean Bodin

Herman Boerhaave

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Boethius

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke, Viscount

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Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

From "The Hundred Greatest Men," 1885 (UofTexas Public Domain Photo Gallery)
Carlo Botta

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Nathaniel Bowditch

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Robert Boyle

Painting by F. Kerseboom, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917). Painting is of early chemist Robert Boyle, not Joyce scholar Robert Boyle.
Tycho Brahe

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Pierre de Bourdeille Brantome

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Carter Braxton

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Great Britain.,

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Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Baron

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America, 1873
Perry-Castañeda Library, Univ of Texas/Austin
Charles Brockden Brown

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Arthur Browne

Sir Thomas Browne

Jean de La Bruyère

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Anton Friedrich Büsching

George Buchanan

George Buchanan. Frontispiece from George Buchanan; a biography (1906) by Donald Macmillan
Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon

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John Burgoyne

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Edmund Burke

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Gilbert Burnet

Thomas Burnet

Godfrey Kneller, published 1697
Charles Burney

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Aaron Burr

Painting by John Vanderlyn, c 1809 (Wikimedia Commons)
Samuel Butler

Julius Caesar

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Alessandro Cagliostro, conte di

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Callimachus

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

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Jean Calvin

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William Camden

Archibald Campbell

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Thomas Campbell

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Elizabeth Canning

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Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot

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Jonathan Carver

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Bartolomé de las Casas

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Susanna Centlivre

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Sir William Chambers

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Samuel de Champlain

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François Jean Chastellux, marquis de

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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William Cheselden

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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Earl of

Charles Churchill

Engravings of British Methodist clergy collection, Pitts Library, Emory University
Colley Cibber

G. Vander Gucht (fl. 1752)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon

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Samuel Clarke

Henry Clay

Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Lithograph published by N. Currier, circa 1835-1856
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Pope Clement I

Detail from Vision of St. Clement by Giovanni Battista, c. 1730-35
DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) Life engraving by W. R. Jones, 1814 (Wikipedia)
Sir Henry Clinton

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William Cobbett

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Sir Edward Coke

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Johann Amos Comenius

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Auguste Comte

Honoré Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau

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Sir John Comyns

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Charles Marie de La Condamine

Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

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Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, marquis de

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William Congreve

James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Hernán Cortés

Engraving by W. Holl; published by Charles Knight, Library of Congress
Charles Cotton

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Sir Robert Cotton

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Abraham Cowley

Source: "International monthly magazine
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v.5, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1852)
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Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon fils

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty (1740-1786)
Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Sir George, Croke

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Alexander Cruden

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William Cullen

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Richard Cumberland

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John Philpot Curran

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George Washington Parke Custis

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Georges Cuvier

Sculpture by David d'Angers, 1833
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Jean Le Rond d' Alembert

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Alexander James Dallas

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William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Johannes Damascenus

Bust of St. John of Damascus, stucco, Milan, Italy. Photo taken by Giovanni Dall'Orto / Wikimedia Commons, enhanced by LT uploader.
William Dampier

Project Gutenberg: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
Erasmus Darwin

Portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby (1792). From
WikipediaSilas Deane

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Daniel Defoe

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Gonzalo de Illescas

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1639
J. Delisle de Sales

J. A. De Luc

Demetrius

Tomb of St. Dimitri, Our Savior-Iakovlevskii Monastery, Rostov, 1911. (Library of Congress Print and Photographs Division LC-DIG-prokc-21379)
Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
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John Denham

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René Descartes

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Charles Dibdin

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John Dickinson

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Denis Diderot

Arthur Richard Dillon, comte de

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Cassius Dio

John Donne

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Michael Drayton

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Charles Drelincourt

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John Dryden

DuBois

Sir William Dugdale

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Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau

J.-A. Dulaure

Charles Francois Du Périer Dumouriez

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Peter S. Du Ponceau

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Timothy Dwight

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David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan

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Laurence Echard

William Eden Auckland, 1st baron

Bryan Edwards

published by John Stockdale on September 25, 1800
Jonathan Edwards

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Sir Thomas Egerton

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John Perceval Egmont, Earl of

Pliny the Elder

Andrew Ellicott

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Church of England

Nave, Caterbury Cathedral. Image by Jim Bowen / Flickr.
Epictetus

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Desiderius Erasmus

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga

El Greco (1541-1614)
Real Academia Española

Real Academia Española, Madrid, Spain. Photo by J.L. De Diego / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Estienne

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Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Leonhard Euler

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Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
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Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea

John Evelyn

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William Falconer

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George Farquhar

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Claude Fauchet

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Barthélemy Faujas-de-St.-Fond

Engraving by Ambroise Tardieu: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Tissandier Collection
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François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon

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Adam Ferguson

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Jean Pierre Claris de Florian

Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle

Peter Force

Peter Force (1790-1868) Photographed by Matthew B. Brady, circa 1865 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-91814)
John Fortescue-Aland

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James Foster

James Foster (1697-1753) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienCharles James Fox

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau, comte

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Philip Morin Freneau

Engraving by P. Halpin. Published in Mary S. Austin : Philip Freneau, the poet of the Revolution : a history of his life and times. 1901.
Paolo Frisi

Thomas Fuller

lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Robert Fulton

Engraving, 1874
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-20997)
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Albert Gallatin

Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) Photograph dated 1848
Sir Samuel Garth

Pierre Gassendi

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John Gay

Francesco Geminiani

Edmond Charles Genet

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comtesse de Stéphanie Félicité Genlis

Elbridge Gerry

James Bogle after John Vanderlyn (1861) ~ Wikipedia
of Gray's-Inn. G. F.

The Hall, Gray’s Inn, 1892, by Herbert Railton. From The Lordprice Collection / Wikimedia Commons.
Edward Gibbon

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William Gibson

Sir Geoffrey Gilbert

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Gildas

Statue of St. Gildas, near Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Brittany, France. Photo by user Romary / Wikimedia Commons.
William Branch Giles

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office
William Gilpin

Engraving of Rev. William Gilpin, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 231, August, 1869
William Godwin

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Carlo Goldoni

Oliver Goldsmith

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Henry Grattan

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Thomas Gray

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Saint Gregory of Nazianzus

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Elizabeth Griffith

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius - Portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631. From
WikipediaFrancesco Guicciardini

Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau

Sir Matthew Hale

The Life & Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682)
Stephen Hales

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
James Hall

Robert Hall

Statue of Robert Hall (1764-1831), Leicester (photo credit: Wikipedia user Burn the Asylum, June 2005)
Alexander Hamilton

Sir William Hamilton

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Philip Yorke Hardwicke, Earl of

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James Harris

James Harris. Frontispiece from Philological inquiries, in three parts (1781)
William Henry Harrison

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David Hartley

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William Harvey

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Eliza Fowler Haywood

Thomas Hearne

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
William Heath

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Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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Hesiod

James Hillhouse

Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Benjamin Hoadly

Painting by Hogarth, ca. 1743
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Alexander von Humboldt

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David Hume

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David Humphreys

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John Dunn Hunter

John D. Hunter. Frontispiece from Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America (1973)
Thomas Hutchinson

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Charles Hutton

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Christiaan Huygens

Johan Ihre

Image from Svenska Familj-Journalen, 1879.
King James I

"History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
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Jan Ingenhousz

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
John Jay

Copyrighted photo of painting, 1905 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-50375)
Jethro Tull

Craig O'Neal. Dec. 11, 2007
Arngrímur Jónsson

Arngrímur Jónsson on a 10 Krónar Note, Central Bank of Iceland / Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones (1747-92) by George Bagby Matthews / U.S. Senate Art & History
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Junius

Junius. Frontispiece from The British prose writers Vol. 13 (1819)
Justinian

Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale., Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna. From
WikipediaMarcus Junianus Justinus

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Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Kālidāsa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Henry Home Kames, Lord

Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782), artist unknown
White Kennett

II George, King of Great Britain

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Peter King King, baron

Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham by Daniel De Coning. Wikimedia Commons.
King of France Louis

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Charles I King of England

Anthonis van Dyck. 1635-1636
Richard Kirwan

Henry Knox

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John Knox

William Knox

Tadeusz Kościuszko

Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko from a 500 złoty banknote, 1982 series.
Pierre Louis Lacretelle

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Marie Madeleine La Fayette

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette, marquis de

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J. L. Lagrange

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Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck

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Jeanne de St. Rémy de Valois de la Motte

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Pierre Simon Laplace, marquis de

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F.-A.-F. duc de La Rochefoucauld- Liancourt

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Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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Henry Laurens

Etching by Thomas B. Welch
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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John Law

Arthur Lee

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Charles Lee

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Henry Lee

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Benjamin Watkins Leigh

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Leopold II

Alain René Le Sage

Sir Creswell Levinz

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Meriwether Lewis

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Heinrich Friedrich Link

Carl von Linné

From "Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Scientists," Elbert Hubbard, 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
Charles Jenkinson Liverpool, 1st earl of

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Edward Livingston

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Robert R. Livingston

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Livy

from Wikipedia
Charles Lloyd

Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
J. G. Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart. Frontispiece from The life and letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1897) by Andrew Lang
Jean Louis de Lolme

Jean Louis de Lolme. Frontispiece from The British prose writers, Vol. 14 (1819)
Louis XVI

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Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucian of Samosata

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Titus Lucretius Carus

Edmund Ludlow

Hiob Ludolf

Luther Martin

Patrick Lyon

Engraving by James Akin: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Popular Graphic Arts Collection
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George Lyttelton 1st Baron Lyttelton

abbé de Mably

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David Macbride

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Sir James Mackintosh

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James Madison

Nicolas Malebranche

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Jean François Marmontel

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John Marshall

Martial

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Benjamin Martin

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James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
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Justin Martyr

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Nevil Maskelyne

The Reverend Dr. Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811). Courtesy of the
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William Mason

William Mason, Composer ~ Piano Mastery, Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (Harriette Brower, 1915)
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Cotton Mather

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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James McClurg

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Richard Mead

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Menander

Roman copy of the Imperial era
after a Greek original (ca. 343–291 BC),
Museo Chiaramonti
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Pietro Metastasio

Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer

John Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

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Samuel L. Mitchill

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office
Abraham de Moivre

Molière

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James Monroe

James Monroe (1758-1831) (Source: U.S. State Dept.)
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de

Wikipédia France
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier

Half-length portrait of French balloonist Joseph Montgolfier, with a glass chamber related to his experiments with gas for balloon flight: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHenry More

Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Lady Morgan

Jean-Baptiste Morin

From "Astrologica Gallica," 1661
Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
1783 engraving, London
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-45482)
John Mortimer

Johann Lorenz Mosheim

Lindley Murray

Lindley Murray. Frontispiece from Memoirs of the life and writings of Lindley Murray, in a series of letters (1826)
Kaspar Neumann

Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Saint Nicephorus

Heneage Finch Nottingham, Earl of

Adam Olearius

Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius (cropped). Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Otway

Ovid

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
William Paley

Andrea Palladio

Thomas Parnell

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Charles Willson Peale

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Rembrandt Peale

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William Penn

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John Perkins

Claude Perrault

Persius

Petronius Arbiter

Sir William Petty

Sir William Petty. From frontispiece to The life of Sir William Petty, 1623-1687 - chiefly derived from private documents hitherto unpublished (1895) by Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice.
John Philips

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Philo Judaeus

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Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Wikipedia (Library of Congress)
Charles Pinckney

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Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
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Giuseppe Pinetti

Image from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (1908) by Harry Houdini
William Pinkney

Engraving by Edward Wellmore, 1880
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William Pitt

William Pitt the Elder ~ History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
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VI Pius, Pope

Bartolommeo Platina

"By Piero della Francesca Vatican Gallery, Rome"
Print published 1828
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Plato

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
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Plautus

Plotinus

Plutarch

Joel Roberts Poinsett

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Polybius

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Sir John Popham

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Jan Potocki

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Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Joseph Priestley

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Matthew Prior

Tyrant of Agrigentum Phalaris

Phalaris (seated on throne) condemning the sculptor Perillus to the Bronze Bull. Image from engraving by Pierre Woeiriot
(Wikipedia)
Ptolemy,

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg
Samuel Purchas

François Quesnay

Josiah Quincy

Caricature of Josiah Quincy III
by William Charles, circa 1812-1813
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsc-05876)
Quintilian

François Rabelais

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh
Painting by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1585
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Allan Ramsay

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David Ramsay

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Edmund Randolph

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John Randolph

John Randolph (1773-1833), U.S. Senate Historical Office
Joseph Reed

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Jean François Paul de Gondi cardinal de Retz

John Richardson

Brigitte Lacombe
Pierre Richelet

Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaFrançois de La Rochefoucauld

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Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers (1731-1795)
Source: "Canada," by Agnes C. Laut
(Boston, 1909)
(Project Gutenberg)
Henri Rohan, duc de

Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de LaPlatière

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Charles Rollin

Sculpture by Félix Lecomte, 1789,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
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William Roscoe

Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Sir Benjamin Thompson Graf von Rumford

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Benjamin Rush

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
Via
WikipediaSallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Santorio Santorio

Santorio Santorio seated in weighing chair in front of table, part of his quantitative approach to medicine: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division
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(cropped)
Sappho

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Maurice Saxe, comte de

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Jean Baptiste Say

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele from Svenska Familj-Journalen 1874.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Olivier de Serres

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné, marquise de

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Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Earl of

History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
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William Shakespeare

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Granville Sharp

Peter Shaw

Accent Press Ltd
Sir John Sinclair

Stephen Skinner

Stephen Skinner
Adam Smith

Tobias George Smollett

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Juan de Solórzano Pereira

Antonio de Solís

Farjat, Benoît (1646-ca. 1720)
Sophocles

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Henry Spelman

Edmund Spenser

Benedictus de Spinoza

Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Abraham Stanyan

United States. Dept. of State.

United States Department of State seal
Sir Richard Steele

Alexander Stephens

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), Vice President of the Confederate States of America
Laurence Sterne

Ezra Stiles

Engraving by Amos Doolittle, 1780s
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-45190)
Joseph Story

Photo by Matthew M. Brady (Library of Congress #USZ62-1101960
Strabo

Gilbert Stuart

Ink and wash self-portrait drawn 1783
(Marian S. Carson Collection,
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LC-USZC4-6721)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Emanuel Swedenborg

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Thomas Sydenham

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University of Kansas Medical Center.
Cornelius Tacitus

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, prince de B�en�event

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Banastre Tarleton

Satirical etching by James Gilray of Tarleton (right)
with the Prince of Wales outside a brothel, 1782
(British Cartoon Prints Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-45464)
Torquato Tasso

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Sir William Temple

Image from Sir William Temple upon the gardens of Epicurus, with other XVIIth century garden essays (1908) by Sir William Temple (1628-1699) et al.
Terence

Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullianus

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Theophrastus

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Antoine Léonard Thomas

Charles Thomson

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James Thomson

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Tibullus

Timur

John Horne Tooke

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, baron de l'Aulne

Antonio de Ulloa

United States.,

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791)

House of Representatives and Central Dome, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photo by Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons.
James Ussher

Sir John Vanbrugh

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega
Pietro Verri

Pietro Verri. Wikimedia Commons.
Esteban Manuel de Villegas

Pascual Pedro Moles (1741-1797)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
C.-F. Volney

Voltaire

Johann Melchior von Birkenstock

Edmund Waller

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius

Image from Svenska Familj-Journalen, 1885.
Horace Walpole

Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford

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Thomas Warton

George Washington

Benjamin Waterhouse

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Isaac Watts

Source: "The story of the hymns and tunes,"
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
Daniel Webb

Daniel Webster

John Adams Whipple / Boston Public Library
Noah Webster

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Mason Locke Weems

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Gilbert West

Phillis Wheatley

Frontispiece engraved by Scipio Moorhead, 1773
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William Whiston

James Wilkinson

Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale (Wikimedia Commons)
Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist (Wikimedia Commons)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Source: "Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen“, ed. by Ludwig Bechstein. Leipzig (1854)
John Winthrop

John Winthrop (1588-1649)
William Wirt

Portrait by Charles de St Memrin (Library of Congress)
John Witherspoon

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Christian Wolff, freiherr von

Frances Wright

Frontispiece engraved by John Chester Buttre, 1881
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William Wycherley

George Wythe

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Xenophon

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Edward Young

Edward Young, Poet (1683-1765), Wkimedia Commons
Detail of Illustration from Works of the English Poets with prefaces
Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. 68 vols. Vol. 15 (1779)
Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
Freiherr Franz Xavier von Zach

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