Fifty Geniuses: Historical Persons Worth Knowing Better

The purpose of these 50 one-page descriptions of persons of genius is to remind readers of historical persons who are worth knowing better. Each of these fifty geniuses is the subject of many scholarly books that are readily available on the Kindle as well as in our wonderful public libraries. The geniuses discussed in this booklet include: Moses, King Solomon, Homer, Confucius, Socrates, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, Justinian, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Louis the IX, Dante, Chaucer, Gutenberg, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Michelangelo, Thomas More, Galileo, Shakespeare, Pascal, Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Rochambeau, Edmund Burke, Joseph Haydn, James Madison, Jane Austen, Daniel O'Connell, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Pasteur, Mendel, Joseph Lister, William Osler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Toscanini, Montessori, Therese Martin, Alexander Fleming, and J.R.R. Tolkien.