Humanities, WYS-ŠAF
The humanities are those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture. The humanities include the study of all languages and literatures, the arts, history, and philosophy.
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Wyss, Johann Rudolf
Johann Rudolf Wyss was a folklorist, editor, and writer, remembered for his collections of Swiss folklore and for......
Xie He
Xie He was a Chinese figure painter and critic who is best remembered for collating or inventing the famous “Six......
Zacconi, Lodovico
Lodovico Zacconi was an Italian musicologist, last of a distinguished line of Renaissance writers on music. Zacconi......
Zarlino, Gioseffo
Gioseffo Zarlino was a Venetian composer and writer on music, the most celebrated music theorist of the mid-16th......
Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. His seismoscope for registering earthquakes......
Zola, Émile
Émile Zola was a French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of......
Zoogeography
Zoogeography, the branch of the science of biogeography (q.v.) that is concerned with the geographic distribution......
Šafařík, Pavel Josef
Pavel Josef Šafařík was a leading figure of the Czech national revival and a pioneer of Slavonic philology and......