User:Anyazelie/reading list

People Qin Shi Huang - founder of the Qin dynasty and first emperor of a unifited China Suleiman the Magnificent - expansionist Sultan at the apex of the Ottoman Empire Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia from 1762-1796, Russia recognized as one of the great power of Europe under her reign Laozi - founder of philosophical Taoism, reputed author of the Tao Te Ching Adi Shankara - early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian, credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese explorer, first to circumnavigate the world Li Bai - One of the two most prominent figures of Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty, the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry" Murasaki Shikibu - author of The Tale of Genji, Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period Miguel de Cervantes - author of Don Quixote Hokusai - Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, painter and printmaker of the Edo period Hildegard of Bingen - German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath Igor Stravinsky - 20th century Russian composer Akira Kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker Jabir ibn Hayyan, Latinized as "Geber" - Muslim polymath of the Islamic Golden Age: "The Book of the Composition of Alchemy", influenced evolution of chemistry Shen Kuo - Han Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty Antoine Lavoisier Werner Heisenberg Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Pierre-Simon Laplace Emmy Noether Kurt Gödel Nagarjuna Ibn Khaldun