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This week's featured author pages

Moses Marsilius (1280 - 1342) -- Italian philosopher who argued for a model of popular government

Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944) -- Canadian writer of non-fiction works in politics and economics, as well as short stories

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) -- one of the most popular novelists of all time, whose writings combined a range of extraordinary qualities

Leucippus (400 - 400) -- less famous than his successor, Democritus, Leucippus is credited with being the co-founder of atomism

Galilei Galileo (1564 - 1642) -- astronomer, physicist, who pioneered the mathematical approach to physics and promoted independent scientific inquiry