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Lucille Turner

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LUCILLE TURNER’s first book, "Gioconda", was published by Granta Books in 2011 and was described in The Financial Times as, ‘A lush, evocative and remarkably accomplished debut novel’. Gioconda was about the life of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci; it went on to win the Hislibris prize for historical fiction and was translated into several languages. Her second historical novel, "The Sultan, the Vampyr and the Soothsayer", has recently been awarded a prize in the Best Fiction category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2017. Lucille reviews books for Bookmunch at https://bookmunch.wordpress.com. A fan of Big History and Ancient Mythology, she comes from Dorset, England and blogs about historical fiction at www.lucilleturner.com. ...more

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Greek Philosophy Boiled Down Part VII

It was an English philosopher, William of Ockham, who is credited with the principle of Occam’s razor, also used by scientists such as Einstein. The Occam's razor principle says that the simplest solution is normally the right one, and it rests on the same rational, empirical view of science that Aristotle and others were promoting in the third century BC and beyond. The Greeks were looking for si Read more of this blog post »
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“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
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“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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