CINXE.COM
People - AbsoluteAstronomy.com
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>People - AbsoluteAstronomy.com</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/styles.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px)" href="/css/tablet.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 736px)" href="/css/phone.css" /> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/images/favicon.png" sizes="32x32" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/lib.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/scripts.js"></script> </head> <body> <div class="main-container"> <div class="header"> <div class="top-bar orange-dark"> <div class="mobile-logo"> <div class="m-logo-image"><img src="/images/logo.png" /></div> <div class="m-logo-text"><a href="/">ABSOLUTEASTRONOMY</a></div> </div> <div class="signup-links"> <div class="signup-message"> <a href="/user/Signup">Create a free discussion account!</a> </div> <div class="ls-link signup"><a href="/user/Signup">Signup</a></div> <div class="ls-link login"><a href="/user/login">Login</a></div> </div> <div onclick="ShowMenu()" class="three-bars"><img src="/images/3bars.png" /></div> <div class="mobile-menu"> <div onclick="HideMenu()" class="close-menu">x</div> <div class="menu-logo go-link"><img src="/images/logo.png" /></div> <div class="menu-link dark go-link"><a href="/">Home</a></div> <div class="menu-link dark go-link"><a href="/SearchMobile">Search</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/topiclist">Topics</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/almanac">Almanac</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/science">Science</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/nature">Nature</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/people">People</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/history">History</a></div> <div class="menu-link go-link"><a href="/society">Society</a></div> <div class="menu-link dark go-link"><a href="/user/Signup">Signup</a></div> <div class="menu-link dark go-link"><a href="/user/login">Login</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="bottom-bar"></div> <div class="bottom-bar-middle main-content-container"> <div class="logo left-col"> <div class="logo-image"><img src="/images/logo.png" /></div> <div class="logo-text"><a href="/">ABSOLUTEASTRONOMY</a></div> </div> <div class="nav-bar right-col"> <div class="nb-link "><a id="home-link" href="/">HOME</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="topics-link" href="/topiclist">TOPICS</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="almanac-link" href="/almanac">ALMANAC</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="science-link" href="/science">SCIENCE</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="nature-link" href="/nature">NATURE</a></div> <div class="nb-link selected"><a id="people-link" href="/people">PEOPLE</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="history-link" href="/history">HISTORY</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="society-link" href="/society">SOCIETY</a></div> <div class="nb-link "><a id="philosophy-link" href="/philosophy">PHILOSOPHY</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="hover-menu"></div> <div class="main-content-container"> <div class="left-col main-content"> <div class="color-bar orange-light">FEATURED DISCUSSIONS</div> <div class="thumb-box-medium go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/l/le/leonardo_da_vinci.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text">Leonardo da Vinci</div> <div class="tb-middle-text"><a href="/discussionpost/Did_da_Vinci_believe_in_God_68990">Did da Vinci believe in God?</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">23 replies</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-medium go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/c/ch/charles_darwin.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text">Charles Darwin</div> <div class="tb-middle-text"><a href="/discussionpost/How_did_Charles_Darwin_discover_evolution_96524857">How did Charles Darwin discover evolution?</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">15 replies</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-medium go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/al/alexander_the_great.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text">Alexander the Great</div> <div class="tb-middle-text"><a href="/discussionpost/How_did_Alexander_conquer_the_world_96525388">How did Alexander conquer the world?</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">17 replies</div> </div> <div class="ad"> <div class="ad-text">advertisement</div> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-2057283477293842"; /* 300x250, created 2/20/11 */ google_ad_slot = "1883996386"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div></div> <div class="right-col main-content"> <div class="sub-page-links-bar"> <a href="/people" class="sub-page-link selected">Home</a> <a href="/people/Thinkers" class="sub-page-link ">Thinkers</a> <a href="/people/Writers" class="sub-page-link ">Writers</a> <a href="/people/Scientists" class="sub-page-link ">Scientists</a> <a href="/people/Artists" class="sub-page-link ">Artists</a> <a href="/people/Political_Figures" class="sub-page-link ">Political Figures</a> <a href="/people/Religious_Figures" class="sub-page-link ">Religious Figures</a> </div> <div class="main-content-section widget-huge-left" onclick="location.href = '/topics/Winston_Churchill'"> <div class="main-image"><img src="/images/main_panel/churchill.jpg" /></div> <div class="main-text"> <div class="top-text">Winston Churchill</div> <div class="bottom-text">Winston Churchill was and remains a both admired and controversial figure. Click to learn more about the life and legacy of this titan of the 20th century.</div> <a href="/topics/Winston_Churchill"> <div class="view-button">View Topic</div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="main-content-section"> <div class="thumbs-list-left"> <div class="color-bar orange-light add-space">FEATURED</div> <div class="featured-topics-section"> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Leonardo_da_Vinci'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/l/le/leonardo_da_vinci.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Leonardo_da_Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist...</div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">41 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Joan_of_Arc'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/jo/joan_of_arc.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Joan_of_Arc">Joan of Arc</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born...</div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">17 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Galileo_Galilei'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/g/ga/galileo_galilei.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Galileo_Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Galileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to...</div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">17 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Stephen_Hawking'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/s/st/stephen_hawking.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/topics/Stephen_Hawking">Stephen Hawking</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an...</div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">11 threads</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="thumbs-list-right"> <div class="color-bar grey add-space">POPULAR FORUMS</div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Aristotle'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/ar/aristotle.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Aristotle">Aristotle</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">32 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Alexander_the_Great'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/al/alexander_the_great.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Alexander_the_Great">Alexander the Great</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">27 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Abraham_Lincoln'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/ab/abraham_lincoln.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Abraham_Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">20 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/William_Shakespeare'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/w/wi/william_shakespeare.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">22 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Vincent_van_Gogh'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/v/vi/vincent_van_gogh.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Vincent_van_Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">22 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Barack_Obama'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/b/ba/barack_obama.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">127 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Attila_the_Hun'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/at/attila_the_hun.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Attila_the_Hun">Attila the Hun</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">10 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Edgar_Allan_Poe'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/e/ed/edgar_allan_poe.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">10 threads</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Pocahontas'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/p/po/pocahontas.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Pocahontas">Pocahontas</a></div> <div class="tb-bottom-text">10 threads</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="main-content-section"> <div class="color-bar orange-light add-space">POPULAR</div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/John_Locke'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/jo/john_locke.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/John_Locke">John Locke</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Carl_Jung'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/c/ca/carl_jung.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Carl_Jung">Carl Jung</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Jesus'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/je/jesus.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Jesus">Jesus</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Charles_Darwin'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/c/ch/charles_darwin.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Charles_Darwin">Charles Darwin</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed...</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Leo_Tolstoy'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/l/le/leo_tolstoy.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Leo_Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays....</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-horiz" onclick="location.href='/discussion/Johannes_Vermeer'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/j/jo/johannes_vermeer.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/discussion/Johannes_Vermeer">Johannes Vermeer</a></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately...</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2024. All Rights Reserved. </div> </div> <div class="opacity-panel"> </div> <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><div class="dialog-wrapper"> <div id="dialog1" class="dialog-pane"> <div onclick="CloseDialog()" class="close-dialog button">x</div> <img class="dialog-logo" src="/images/logo.png" /> <div class="line"></div> <div id="dialog-panel"> <div class="dialog-title"></div> <div class="dialog-content"></div> <div class="ok-button-wrapper"><div onclick="CloseDialog()" class="ok-button">OK</div></div> </div> </div> </div> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-395964-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-395964-1'); </script> </body> </html>