OK, your personal list of people who you think were very important for history: here’s my list.
1. Aristotle: The founder of the western civilization. There were however important philopshers in the pre-Aristotle era like Socrates, Plato and Thales from whom Aristotle has learned a lot, but I think he’s my number one.
2. Emperor August : Introduced the pax Romana, was able to bring peace for more than 200 years in the Roman Empire, but still, he continued to introduce the Roman culture to all kinds of tribes and people.
3. Charles V : Had the greatest European empire since the demise of the Imperium Romanum.
4. Immanuel Kant : German 18th century philosopher. He managed to bring together the French Rationalists and the British empirists (Descartes/Spinoza and Hume/Bacon).
5. Benjamin Franklin : great philopsher, scientist and politician.
By: IsaacNewton - 19th April 2003 at 11:20
1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel – the greatest engineer of the Victorian age. Ahead of his time.
2. Joseph Lister – improved survival rates in medical treatment immensely with the use of antiseptics.
3. Michael Faraday – did important work relating to electro-magnetism. Where would we be without electricity?
4. Alexander Fleming – the discoverer of penicillin.
5. Isaac Newton – awesome contribution to science.
6. Horatio Nelson – a British naval hero.
7. The Duke of Wellington – sorted out Napoleon and stopped him taking over Europe.
8. John Logie Baird – the inventor of television.
9. Alexander Graham Bell – the inventor of the telephone.
10. Winston Churchill – the best prime minister Britain ever had, at a time when we needed one most.
11. George Cayley – The Father of Aeronautics – constructed and demonstrated a man-carrying glider near Scarborough 50 years before the Wright Brothers flew.
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April 19, 2003 at 10:27 am