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This week's featured author pages

Andrea Cesalpino (1519 - 1603) -- Italian physician and pioneering botanist

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) -- German philosopher, whose contributions include the development of hermeneutics and broadening the application of Kant's philosophy

Yaaqub ibn Ishaq al- Kindi (870 - 870) -- one of the first Arab philosophers, who facilitated the exploration of Greek philosophy in the Islamic tradition

Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849) -- great American poet and writer of prose

Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925) -- leading poet of the imagist school and a literary critic