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This week's featured author pages

Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) -- scientist and philosopher who emphasised the importance of experimentation over theorisation

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) -- prominent rationalist philosopher who based his metaphysics on the existence of simple immaterial substances called monads

Antoine Arnauld (1612 - 1694) -- seventeenth-century philosopher, famous for his critique of Descartes

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) -- writer who portrayed late nineteenth and early twentieth century American society

Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897) -- French writer, remebered for his descriptions of Provence