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James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"
James Thomson ist der Name folgender Personen: James Thomson (Schriftsteller, 1700) (1700–1748), schottischer Dichter James Thomson (Mathematiker) (1789–1849), irischer Mathematiker
11. Apr. 2024 · James Thomson (born Sept. 11, 1700, Ednam, Roxburgh, Scot.—died Aug. 27, 1748, Richmond, Eng.) was a Scottish poet whose best verse foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement.
The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner.
2. Mai 2024 · James Thomson (born Dec. 20, 1958, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) is an American biologist who was among the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells and the first to transform human skin cells into stem cells. Thomson grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park.
The 50 years before Thomson’s birth and the first quarter of the new century had seen the triunity of true, good, and beautiful split apart, to be studied within three different sciences: “natural philosophy”; ethics and a rationalized natural law; and the youngest branch of philosophy, aesthetics.
Thomson was educated at a grammar school in Jedburgh (1712) and at Edinburgh University, where he prepared for the Presbyterian ministry. Thomson began to write and publish poetry (1720) and in 1725 he followed his friend David Mallet to London in pursuit of a literary career.
