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• Johann Georg Hamann
  ...a major influence on [[Kierkegaard]]. His influence continued on twentieth century German thinkers, particularly those interested in language. His popularity ...mes (ed.). What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
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• States of Consciousness
  ...h they maintain begins only with Franz Anton Mesmer in the late eighteenth century. Another figure in the late nineteenth century associated with the so-called French, Swiss, English, and American psychoth
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• Samuel Johnson
  ...sh Poets]'', a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. ...umous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition unknown in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses he died on the evening of 13, December 1784, a
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• Harmony
  ...ce to three notes, sounded simultaneously. An anonymous writer of the 13th century (CoussemakerS, i, 297) defined the concordantia (the simultaneity employed ...d imperfect consonances as ‘harmony’ (CoussemakerS, iii, 197); in the 17th century, among other prerequisites for the composition of contrappunto moderno, Chr
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