William Paley (1743-1805), in his 1802 classic, Natural Theology, summarized the viewpoint of the scientists. He argued that the kind of carefully designed structures we …
Abbe Augustin Barruel’s publishes his impressive four-volume study, ‘Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism’, covering the same matter and basically coming to the same conclusions …
John Robison publishes a book entitled “Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of …
“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness …
On Sept. 12, 1782, Congress approved of Robert Aitken’s printing of the Bible. Called “the Bible of the Revolution,” it was the first English-language Bible …
It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed “Written by an Englishman”, and the pamphlet became …
Erasmus, with the help of printer John Froben, published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament. The Latin part was not the corrupt Vulgate, but his own …
Cosmographiae Introductio (“Introduction to Cosmography”; Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was published in 1507 to accompany Martin Waldseemüller’s printed globe and wall-map (Universalis Cosmographia). The book and map …
On February 13, 1258, the Mongols entered the city of the caliphs, starting a full week of pillage and destruction. Along with all other libraries in Baghdad, …
