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This week's featured author pagesThomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) -- third president of the United States, and political philosopher who borrowed much from Locke and who argued that successful representative government was possible
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824) -- one of the most important and notorious poets of the Romantic era, English-born.
William Whewell (1794 - 1866) -- Cambridge philosopher of science
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) -- Bacon, who was also a politician and a lawyer, advocated the founding of human activity on a common methodology of inquiry
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) -- great British anti-war poet of the First World War.