Salem Press

Great Lives from History: The 18th Century

Great Lives from History: The 18th Century
Contents by Area of Acheivement

Agriculture
Tull, Jethro

Anthropology
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

Architecture
Adam, Robert, and James Adam
Boffrand, Germain
Brown, Lancelot
Fischer von Erlach, Johann
Hawksmoor, Nicholas
Hildebrandt, Johann Lucas von
Stukeley, William
Vanbrugh, Sir John

Art
Bateman, Hester
Blake, William
Canaletto
Chardin, Jean Siméon
Copley, John Singleton
Fischer von Erlach, Johann
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
Gainsborough, Thomas
Goya, Francisco de
Hogarth, William
Kauffmann, Angelica
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
Levni, Ressam
Lisboa, Antonio Francisco
Peale, Charles Willson
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Romney, George
Ross, Betsy
Stuart, Gilbert
Suzuki, Harunobu
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Trumbull, John
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth
Watteau, Antoine
Wedgwood, Josiah
West, Benjamin

Astronomy
Banneker, Benjamin

Biology
Banks, Sir Joseph
Buffon, Comte de
Galvani, Luigi
Linnaeus
Spallanzani, Lazzaro

Botany
Banks, Sir Joseph
Linnaeus

Business
Boulton, Matthew
Darby, Abraham
Morris, Robert
Revere, Paul
Wedgwood, Josiah
Wilkinson, John

Chemistry
Cavendish, Henry
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Leblanc, Nicolas
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Monge, Gaspard
Roebuck, John
Rush, Benjamin
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Volta, Alessandro

Dance
Dauberval, Jean

Diplomacy
Franklin, Benjamin
Jay, John
Marlborough, First Duke of
Pontiac
Stanhope, First Earl

Economics
Beccaria, Cesar
Morris, Robert
Necker, Jacques
Quesnay, François
Smith, Adam
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques

Education
Barbauld, Anna
Basedow, Johann Bernhard
Condorcet, Marquis de
Mather, Increase
Pestalozzi, Johann
Priestley, Joseph
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Witherspoon, John

Engineering
Brindley, James
Fitch, John
Monge, Gaspard
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel
Murdock, William
Newcomen, Thomas
Watt, James

Exploration
Banks, Sir Joseph
Bering, Vitus Jonassen
Bligh, William
Boone, Daniel
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Bruce, James
Cook, Captain James
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
Park, Mungo
Vancouver, George

Geology
Spallanzani, Lazzaro

Government and Politics
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Ahmed III
Alaungpaya
Anne, Queen
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
Bolingbroke, First Viscount
Brant, Joseph
Burke, Edmund
Campbell, John, Second Duke of Argyll
Carleton, Guy
Carnot, Lazare
Caroline of Ansbach
Carroll, Charles
Carvalho e Mello, Sebastão José de
Catherine the Great
Charles III
Charles VI
Charles XII
Charlotte Sophia
Choiseul, Étienne-François d'
Churchill, Sarah Jennings
Clark, George Rogers
Cornwallis, First Marquess
Danton, Georges
Dickinson, John
Elizabeth Petrovna
Erskine, First Baron
Fitzherbert, Maria
Fleury, André-Hercule de
Fox, Charles James
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick I
Frederick the Great
Frederick William I
Gálvez, José
George I
George II
George III
Gerry, Elbridge
Godolphin, First Earl of
Godwin, William
Grattan, Henry
Haidar Ali
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
Hastings, Warren
Henry, Patrick
Honda Toshiaki
Howe, Admiral Richard
Hutchinson, Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas
Joseph II
Kamehameha I
Karim Khan Zand
Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton von
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Macdonald, Flora
Madison, James
Mahmud I
Marat, Jean-Paul
Maria Theresa
Marie-Antoinette
Mason, George
McGillivray, Alexander
Menetewab
Mirabeau, Comte de
Morris, Gouverneur
Mustafa III
Nadir Khan
Nanny
Necker, Jacques
Nguyen Hue
North, Lord
Oglethorpe, James Edward
Orléans, Duc d'
Orlov, Count Grigori
Paine, Thomas
Pelham, Henry
Peter III
Peter the Great
Philip V
Phillip, Arthur
Pitt the Elder, William
Pitt the Younger, William
Poisson, Jeanne-Antoinette
Pugachov, Yemelyan
Qian Long
Revere, Paul
Robespierre
Rodney, George
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Saint-Just, Louis de
Shah Wali-Ullah
Shays, Daniel
Sherman, Roger
Sidi al-Mukhtar Ibn Ahmad Ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti
Sieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph
Staël, Madame de
Stanhope, First Earl
Taksin
Thanadelthur
Toussaint-Louverture
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de
Walpole, Sir Robert
Washington, George
Wilkes, John
Witherspoon, John
Yongzheng
Historiography
Gibbon, Edward
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Macaulay, Catherine
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas
Schiller, Friedrich
Vico, Giambattista
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Brant, Joseph
McGillivray, Alexander
Pontiac
Toussaint-Louverture

Invention
Arkwright, Richard
Baskerville, John
Darby, Abraham
Hargreaves, James
Kay, John
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel
Murdock, William
Newcomen, Thomas
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Tull, Jethro
Watt, James
Whitney, Eli
Wilkinson, John

Law and Jurisprudence
Beccaria, Cesar
Blackstone, William
Carroll, Charles
Chase, Samuel
Erskine, First Baron
Jay, John
Mansfield, First Earl of
Sewall, Samuel
Sherman, Roger
Wilson, James

Literature and Media
Abington, Frances
Addison, Joseph
Baskerville, John
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Blake, William
Boswell, James
Burney, Fanny
Burns, Robert
Cao Xueqin
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
Chapone, Hester
Defoe, Daniel
Equiano, Oloudah
Fielding, Henry
Godwin, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Johnson, Samuel
Klopstock, Friedrich
Krasicki, Ignatius
LaRoche, Sophie
Lennox, Charlotte
Lesage, Alain-René
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Manley, Mary de la Rivière
Marat, Jean-Paul
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Newbery, John
Paine, Thomas
Pope, Alexander
Radcliffe, Ann
Richardson, Samuel
Robinson, Mary Darby
Sade, Marquis de
Schiller, Friedrich
Seward, Anna
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Staël, Madame de
Steele, Richard
Swift, Jonathan
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de
Voltaire
Warren, Mercy
Wheatley, Phillis
Wilkes, John
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Zenger, John Peter

Mathematics
Agnesi, Maria
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Banneker, Benjamin
Euler, Leonhard
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
Maclaurin, Colin
Monge, Gaspard

Medicine and Health
Jenner, Edward
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Rush, Benjamin
Stahl, Georg Ernst

Military
Allen, Ethan
Amherst, Lord
André, John
Anson, Lord
Arnold, Benedict
Bligh, William
Bonneval, Comte de
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Brant, Joseph
Carleton, Guy
Carnot, Lazare
Charles XII
Clark, George Rogers
Clinton, Henry
Clive, Robert
Cornwallis, First Marquess
Danton, Georges
Dupleix, Joseph François, Marquis de
Eugen, Prince of Savoy-Carignon
FitzGerald, Edward
Gage, Thomas
Greene, Nathanael
Howe, Admiral Richard
Howe, General William
Jones, John Paul
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich
Little Turtle
Macdonald, Flora
Marlborough, First Duke of
Montalembert, Marc Rene, Marquis de
Montcalm, Louis Joseph Marquis de
Nanny
Nguyen Hue
Oglethorpe, James Edward
Orlov, Count Aleksei
Orlov, Count Grigori
Phillip, Arthur
Potemkin, Grigori, Prince
Pugachov, Yemelyan
Revere, Paul
Rochambeau, Comte de
Rodney, George
Saxe, Hermann Maurice, comte de
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Tone, Theobald Wolfe
Tupac Amaru
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de
Washington, George
Wayne, Anthony
Wolfe, James

Music
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Boccherini, Luigi
Boulogne, Joseph
Burney, Charles
Couperin, François
Gluck, Christoph
Handel, George Frideric
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Scarlatti, Alessandro
Stradivari, Antonio
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Vivaldi, Antonio
Wesley, Charles

Philosophy
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Bentham, Jeremy
Berkeley, George
Burke, Edmund
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Dai Zhen
Diderot, Denis
Ferguson, Adam
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Godwin, William
Hakuin
Helvetius, Claude
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Holbach, Paul Henri
Hume, David
Kant, Immanuel
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Mendelssohn, Moses
Montesquieu
Ogyu Sorai
Paley, William
Priestley, Joseph
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Smith, Adam
Staël, Madame de
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Vico, Giambattista
Voltaire

Physics
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Euler, Leonhard
Fahrenheit, Daniel
Galvani, Luigi
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Maclaurin, Colin
Monge, Gaspard
Volta, Alessandro

Psychology
Berkeley, George
Rush, Benjamin

Religion and Theology
Abd al-Wahhab
Asbury, Francis
Astell, Mary
Ba`al Shem Tov
Backus, Isaac
Benedict XIV
Berkeley, George
Butler, Joseph
Edwards, Jonathan
Elijah ben Solomon
Fleury, André-Hercule de
Hakuin
Honda Toshiaki
Lee, Ann
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
More, Hannah
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Pius VI
Priestley, Joseph
Serra, Junipero
Sewall, Samuel
Sidi al-Mukhtar Ibn Ahmad Ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Vahid Bihbahani
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John
Whitefield, George
Witherspoon, John
Zinzendorf, Graf von

Science
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Arkwright, Richard
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
Banks, Sir Joseph
Banneker, Benjamin
Baskerville, John
Berkeley, George
Black, Joseph
Buffon, Comte de
Cavendish, Henry
Chatelet, Gabrielle Émilie du
Darby, Abraham
Euler, Leonhard
Fahrenheit, Daniel
Fitch, John
Franklin, Benjamin
Galvani, Luigi
Hargreaves, James
Herschel, Caroline
Herschel, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenner, Edward
Kay, John
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Leblanc, Nicolas
Linnaeus
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Maclaurin, Colin
Monge, Gaspard
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel
Murdock, William
Newcomen, Thomas
Priestley, Joseph
Roebuck, John
Rush, Benjamin
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Tull, Jethro
Volta, Alessandro
Wang Zhenyi
Watt, James
Whitney, Eli
Wilkinson, John

Social Reform
Carroll, Charles
Condorcet, Marquis de
Peter the Great
Sewall, Samuel
Sharp, Granville
Shays, Daniel
Wilberforce, William
Wollstonecraft, Mary

Society
Cavendish, Georgiana

Theater
Addison, Joseph
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Cowley, Hannah
Garrick, David
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Oldfield, Anne
Schiller, Friedrich
Siddons, Sarah
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Woffington, Peg

Women's Rights
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Wollstonecraft, Mary