Bio-/Biblio-graphical Data of authors whose names start with R

• Rabelais, Francois ------French humorist

  * 1490 Chinon, Touraine + 09/4/1553 Meudon, France

  REF: Rabelais on his deathbed; BLUE

• Rabindranath, Tagore ------ Bengali poet, novelist, Nobel literature laureate 1913

  * 07/05/1861 Calcutta + 07/08/1941 Calcutta, India

  REF:

  1. ITQ, p. 48 'Beauty'.
  2. Siair Kumar Ghose: "Mysticism", ENCYCLOPAEDIA, Vol. 12, p. 786a.
  3. R.Tagore: "The Religion of an Artist", in "Contemporary Indian Philosophy", edited by S. Radhakrishnan & J.M. Muirhead. UNWIN 1952, 1958, 1966; first Indian edition S. Chaud & Co., New Delhi, pp. 24 - 45, last paragraph.
  4. Ibid. pp. 24 - 45, p. 41.
  5. R.Tagore: "The Religion of Man", UNWIN 931, paperback 1961, 1975, p. 34 Chapter III: "the Surplus on Man".
  6. Ibid. Chapter XIV: "The Four stages of life", pp. 119 - 120.
  7. Ibid. Chapter XIV: "The Four Stages of life" pp. 119 - 120.
  8. Ibid. Chapter I: "Man's Universe", p. 15.
  9. ?

• Rabinowitch, Eugene

  * 1901 St. Petersburg, Russia

  REF:

  1. E.I. Rabinowitch: "Photosynthesis", Scientific USA, Vol. , No. , August 1948, pp. ; Reprinted in "The Physics and Chemistry of Life", A Scientific American book, SIMON , Part I, Paper II, pp. 27 - 47, p. 29.
  2. Ibid. p. 27.
  3. "The Voice of Eugene Rabinowitch", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 1981, p.14.

• Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepali ------President of Republic of India 1962 - 1967

  * 05/09/1888 Tiruttani,nr. Madras + 17/04/1975 Madras, India

  REF:

  1. S.Radhakrishnan: "True Knowledge", ORIENT, 1978, p. 104, Chapter 9. "Books",.
  2. Ibid. Chapter 6: "Humanities vs. Science", p. 76.
  3. Ibid. Chapter 12 :Science and Service', p. 123.
  4. Ibid. Chapter 6: "Humanities and Science", p. 76.
  5. ?
  6. UNIVERSITAS, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 1983, p. 302.
  7. S. Radhakrishnan: "Living With A Purpose", ORIENT, 1977, 1982, Chapter I: "Kalidasa", p. 19.
  8. Ibid. p.7, Epigraph.
  9. Ibid. Chapter I: "Kalidasa", p. 9.
  10. S. Radhakrishnan: "Towards a New World", ORIENT, 1983, Chapter 15: "The Promise of the Future", p. 149 final paragraph.
  11. Ibid. Chapter 11: "International Peace", p. 113.
  12. Ibid. Chapter 15: "The Promise of the Future", p. 144 first paragraph.
  13. Ibid. Chapter 6: "Inter-religious Understanding", pp. 76 - 77.
  14. Ibid. p. 64.
  15. Ibid. p. 67.
  16. Ibid. p. 69.
  17. Ibid. Chapter II: "International Peace", p. 117.
  18. S. Radhakrishnan: "Search for Truth", Hind Pocket Books, Delhi, (Ndete), Chapter 14: "Knowledge of the Self", p. 69.
  19. Ibid. p. 70.
  20. Ibid. p. 70.
  21. S. Radhakrishnan: "An Idealist View of Life". UNWIN, 1932, 1937, 1961, 1980, Chapter I: "The Modern Challenge to Religion", p. 10.
  22. Ibid. Chapter IV: "Intellect and Intuition", Section 6: "Intuitive Knowing".
  23. Ibid. Section 7: "Intuition and Imagination", p. 113.
  24. S. Radhakrishnan: "Eastern Religions and Western Thought", OXFORD, 1940; Reuben Wheeler: "Man, Nature and Art", PERGAMON, 1968, Chapter 11, pp. 69 - 70.
  25. Ibid. p. 1.
  26. Ibid. p. 69.

• Radunskaya, Irina L. ------Russian electronics researcher and scientific journalist

  REF: BERG, p. 313.

• Rahula, W.

  REF:
  1. BURGESS, p. 25 'Buddhism'.
  2. Ibid. p. 24 "Buddhism'.

• Ramakrishna ------also called Gadadha Chattopadhyaya

  * 18/02/1836 Hooshly, Bengal +16/08/1886 Calcutta, India

  REF: Romain Rolland: "Prophets of the New India", New York, 1930; Sir Charles Eliot: "Hinduism and Buddhism", 3 volumes, London 1921, ii, 162; DURANTCIVILIZATION, 1954, p. 617.

• Ramon y Cajal, Santiago ------Neuroanatomist

  * 01/05/1852 Petilla de Aragon + 17/10/1934 Madrid, Spain

  REF: Laurence Cherry: "The Brain", GES, Vol, 2, No. 10, October 1980, pp. 28 - 36 p. 36.

• Ramsey, Frank Plumpton

  REF: F.P. Ramsey's comment on B. Russell's "What I Believe" 1925 in his "Foundations of Mathematics" 1931, p. 291; Hao Wang: "From Mathematics to Philosophy", KEGAN, 1974, Humanities Press, p. 361 Note 13.

• Rand, Ayn ------Russian born US writer, novelist

  * 02/02/1905 *St. Petersburg, Russia

  REF:

  1. BARTLETT, p. 865 # 4.
  2. Ibid. p. 865 # 5.
  3. Ibid. p. 865 # 6.

• Rappaport, Roy A.

  REF: Edward O. Wilson: "On Human Nature", Chapter 8 "Religion", HARVARD, 1978, p. 186.

• Ray, John ------Father of English Natural History

  * 11/29/1628 Black Notley, Braintree, Essex + 0117//1705 Black Notley, England

  REF: C. Linnaeus

• Ray, Man ------American painter, sculptor, photographer, film maker

  * 1890 Philadelphia, Penn. USA +1976

  REF: SONTAGPHOTOGRAPHY, p. 186.

• Rayleigh, 3rd.Baron John William Strutt ------English physicist, Nobel laureate for physics 1904

  * 12/11/1842 Essex + 30/06/1919 Cambridge?, England

  REF: TILLEYTHUMM, p. 269 Chapter 7: "Mechanical Waves: Sound".

• Read, Sir Herbert ------English poet, writer, art critic

  * 04/12/1893 Muscoates Grange, Kirbymorside, Yorkshire + 12/06/1968 Malton, England

  REF:

  1. H. Read: "Icon and Idea", FABER; Reubern Wheeler: "Man, Nature and Art", PERGAMON, 1968, p. 21 Chapter 3.
  2. H. Read: "The Grass Root of Art", FABER, 1955; Ibid. p. 21 Chapter 3.
  3. READART, p. 54 Chapter 3: "On Perception and Imagination", Section 6: "The Relevance of Imagery to Thinking".
  4. Jack Stewart Lincoln: "The Dream in Primitive Culture", London, 1935; E.B. Holt: "The Freudian Wish", London, 1915, where a dream is defined as a course of action which some mechanism of the body is set to carry out, whether it actually does or does not, a definition meant to preclude any merely hedonistic interpretation.
  5. READART, p. 53 Chapter 3: "On Perception and Imagination"; B. Russell: "The Analysis of Mind", London 1921, p. 212: 'Those who have relatively direct vision of facts often incapable of translation of their visions into words, whilst those who process the words have usually lost the vision.

• Reagan, Ronald------- US President

  REF: R. Reagan, speaking on the anniversary of the disaster of HIROSHIMA; BANGKOK, Vol. xxxx, No. 220, 10/08/1985, p. 4 Column 6.

• Reed, Amy

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• Reed, Charles

  REF: CONTINUUM, Vol. 3, No. 1, October 1980, p. 41.

• Reich, Charles A.

  REF:
  1. C.A. Reich: "The Greening of America", BANTAM, 1971.
  2. Ibid p. 451; Bruce O. Watkins & Roy Meador: "Technology and Human Values: Collision and Solution", ANNARBOR, 1978, p. 86.

• Reichenbach, Hans

  REF:LIVINGPHILOSOPHERS H. Reichenbach: "The Physical Significance of the Theory of Relativity" in "Albert Einstein: Philosopher and Scientist:, Vol. 1, , Item 10, pp. 287 - 331 p. 307.; Thomas Gold: "Cosmic Processes and the Nature of Time". In "Mind and Cosmos" Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy", edited by Robert G. Colodny, PITTSBURGH, 1966, Part II: "Cosmos", pp. 311 - 329 p. 311 Epigraph.

• Renan, Ernest -------French philosopher, orientalist

  * 27/02/1823 Tréguier +12/10/1892 Paris?, France

  REF: CONTINUUM, Vol. 3, No. 5, February 1981, p. 39.

  

• Rhodes, Cecil John -------British colonial and imperial statesman

  * 05/07/1853 Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, England + 26/03/1902 Muizenberg nr. Capetown, South Africa

  REF: ?

• Rice, Helen Steiner

  REF: ?

• Richard of St.Victor -------Theologian, mystic

  * Scotland or England 03/10/1173 Paris, France

  REF: Richard of St. Victor, translated by C. Kirschberger, FABER; J.M. Cohen & J.F. Phipps: "The Common Experience", Rider & Co., London, 1979, p. 14: For Richard, THINKING is the product of Imagination, Meditation is based on reason, while CONTEMPLATION rests on the INTELLIGENCE, which is a spiritual quality; ENCYCLOPAEDIA, Vol. VIII p. 568.

• Richardson, Lewis Fry------- British mathematician, scientist, physicist, psychologist

  * 11/10/1881 Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland + 30/09/1953 Kilmun, Argyllshire, Scotland REF: GLEICKCHAOS, p. 119 Epigraph.

• Richter, Gottfried -------German art historian

  * 1901 + 1980

  REF:G. Richter: "Art and Human Consciousness", 1937 - 1982, translated by Burley Channer & Margaret Frohlich, ANTHROPOSOPHIC, 1985, p. 245.

  

• Richter (Jean Paul), Johann Paul Friedrich

  * 21/03/1763 Wunsiedel, Bavaria +14/11/1825 Bayreuth, Germany

  REF:

  1. MUSIC, p.14.
  2. Kenneth Demaret: "The Winged Power: New Discoveries of an Ancient Path to Enlightenment and Regeneration" in "Consciousness and Reality: The Human Pivot point", edited by Charles Musès & Arthur M. Young, Outerbridge & Lazaret Ind., First Printing, April 1974, DUTTON, pp. 342 - 380 p. 343 Epigraph.

• Riedel, Manfred

  REF:
  1. UNIVERSITAS, Vol. 26, No. 4, 04/06/1984, p. 306.
  2. Ibid., Vol. 25, No. 4, December 1984, p. 284.

• Riedl, Rupert J.M.------- Zoologist, University of Vienna

  REF:
  1. R. Riedl: "Biologie der Erkenntnis", 1981, translated by Paul Foulkes: "Biology of Knowledge: The Evolutionary Basis of Reason", WILEY, 1984, p. 153, Chapter 6: Solutions and their Consequences", Section: "On Scientific Humanism".
  2. Ibid. p. 154

• Riley, James Whitcomb------- US poet

  * 1853 Greenfield, Ind., USA + 1916

  * REF: ?

  

• Rilke, Rainer Maria -------Austrian poet

  * 04/12/1875 Prague, Bohemia + 29/12/1926 Valmont, Switzerland

  REF:

  1. TOYNBEEJOURNAL, p. 330 11/04/1979.
  2. R.M. Rilke: "Rodin", 1903, translated by Jessie Lamont & Hans Trausil, London, 1949, p. 9; William Tucker: "Early Modern Sculpture: Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Braucusi, Picasso, Gonzalez", THOMAS, 1974, OXFORD, 1974, p. 9 'Introduction'.

  

• Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreievich -------Russian composer

  * 03/06/1844 Tikhvin + 08/06/1921 Liubensk nr. Lug, Russia

  REF: N. Rimsky-Korsakov: "Principles of Orchestration with Musical Examples drawn from his own Works"< edited by Maximilian Sternberg, translated by Edward Agate, Vol. I - Text, DOVER, 1964, an unabridged and corrected republication of the work published by Edition Russe de Musique, 1922, p. 4 Exctract from Author's Preface (1891), pp. 1 - 4 p. 4.

• Robinson, Frederick

  REF: BURGESS, p. 185 'Poetry'.

• Rogers, Carl -------Humanistic psychologist

  REF: Vance Packard: "The People Shapers", LITTLE 1977, BANTAM 1979, p. iv.

• Rogers, Will

  REF: BURGESS, p. 42 'Communism'.

• Rohle, Ida Catherine

  REF: ?

• Rolle de Hampole, Richard ------- English hermit and author

  * around 1300 Thornton nr., Pickering, Yorkshire + 29/09/1349 Hampole nr. Doncaster, England

  REF:

  1. R. Rolle: "The Fire of Love",translated into modern English with an introduction by Clifton Wollers, PENGUIN, pp. 104 - 105 Chapter 19 .
  2. Ibid, pp. 102 - 103 Chapter 18.
  3. Ibid. p. 173. Chapter 39.
  4. Ibid. p. 174.
  5. Ibid. pp. 126 - 127 .
  6. Ibid. p. 103 Chapter 18.

• Roosevelt, Eleanor (Ann) -------Wife of US President

  * 1884

  REF:

  1. BURGESS, p. 69 'Equality'.
  2. ?

  

• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -------32nd US President

  * 30/01/1882 + 12/04/1945 Washington D.C., USA

  REF:

  1. BURGESS, 1983, p. 22 'Books'.
  2. Ibid. p. 241 'Work'
  3. ITQ,Pan-American Day Address, 15/04/1939; p. 404, Section 583, No. 17.
  4. Ibid.,Speech at Stanton, Va., 04/05/1941, p. 404, Sect. 583, No. 17 'Mind".

• Roosevelt, Theodore -------26th US President

  * 27/10/1858 New York City + 06/01/1919 Oyster Bay, N.Y., USA

  REF:

  1. ?
  2. BLUE
  3. ?
  4. ?

• Ross, Verda

  REF: CONTINUUM, Vol. 5, March 1983, p. 48.

• Rossetti, Christina Georgina -------Distinguished English poet

  * 05/12/1830 London + 29/12/1894 Bloomsbury, England

  REF:

  1. OXFORDVERSE, p. 724 No. 670.
  2. Ibid. p. 676, p. 727.
  3. PENGUINQUOTS, p. 300, No. 13.
  4. Ibid. p. 300, No. 14.
  5. Ibid. p. 301, No. 7; OXFORDVERSE, p. 716, No. 662.
  6. BARTLETT, p. 608, No. 15.

• Rossiter, Wilson

  REF: BLUE

• Rostand, Jean ------- French biologist

  * 30/10/1894 + 03/09/1977

  REF:

  1. BURGESS, p. 167 'Nuclear Energy'.
  2. PQIOT, p. 94 'Civil right', p. 279 'Knowledge'.
  3. EISELEYPYRAMID, p. 5.
  4. Obituary in "1979 Yearbook of Science and the Future", ENCYCLOPAEDIA, 15th Edition, 1978, p. 30.

• Roszak, Theodore -------Professor of History, California State University, Hayward

  * 1933

  REF:

  1. T. Roszak: "Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society", Victor, 1979; Granada, 1981, p. 183.
  2. Ibid. pp. 25 - 26
  3. . P. 13.
  4. E.O. Wilson: "On Human Nature", HARVARD, pp. 10 - 11.

  

• Rousseau, Jean Jacques -------Swiss-born French philosopher

  * 28/06/1712 Geneva + 02/07/1778 Ermenonville, Ile des Peupliers, Switzerland

  REF:

  1. ITQ, p. 297, 441.31 'Ideas'
  2. ?
  3. J.J. Rousseau: "The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right", Part I, 1. "Subject of First Book", translated by G.D.H. Cole, GREATBOOKS, 38, p. 387.
  4. Robert M. Hutchins: "The Great Convention: The Substance of a Liberal Education", Ibid, Vol. 1, p. 51, VI: "Education for All".
  5. ?

• Royce, Fitzgerald

  REF: BLUE

• Rubinstein, Artur -------Polish born US pianist, Chopin interpreter

  REF: ?

• Ruderman, Malvin A. -------Physicist

  REF: M.A. Ruderman & A.H. Rosenfeld: "An Explanatory Statement on Elementary Particle Physics", American scientist; John Huyes Updike in poem written in 1960: "Cosrnic Gull".

• Rudio, F.

  REF: H.B. Griffiths & A.G. Howson: "Mathematics: Society and Curricula",CAMBRIDGE, 1974, p. 111.

• Rumi, Jala-uddin -------Persian poet

  REF: J. Rumi: "Mathnawi (Spiritual couplets", I, 2383.

• Ruskin, John -------English writer, critic

  * 08/02/1819 at Hunter street, Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury + 20/01/1900 Brantwood, England

  REF:

  1. Robin Daniele: "Conversations with Menuhin", Macdonald General Books, UK, 1979, Futura Publications Edition, Futura Publications, London, 1980, p. 117.
  2. BURGESS, p. 11 'Advertising'.
  3. J. Ruskin: "The Stones of Venice" 1851 - 1853, 3; ITQ, p. 175, No. 277.68.
  4. ?
  5. PQIOT, p. 251 'Humility'.
  6. J. Ruskin:"Unto This Last", Essay IV, §77;Sir Kenneth Clarke: "Ruskin Today", PENGUIN 1964, 1967, Section 5, No. 257 'True Wealth'.

• Russell, Bertrand Arthur William -------English philosopher

  * 18/05/1872 Trelleck, Monmouthshire + 02/02/1970 Pourhyndendraeth, Merionah, England

  REF:

  1. B. Russell: "The Conquest of Happiness", 1930; "Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satin", selected and introduced by Robert E. Egner, New ? Centennial Edition, UNWIN, 1958, 1971; A Mentor Book from the New American Library, Times Mirror, p. 25.
  2. Ibid. p. 11.
  3. B. Russell: "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy", p. 61; EDDINGTONSPACETIME, p. 197; EDDINGTONPATHWAYS, p. 265, Chapter XII: "The Theory of Groups" Epigraph.
  4. B. Russell: "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish. Unpopular Essays"; ITQ, p. 32; PQIOT, p. 195 'Force'.
  5. PQIOT, p. 208 'Friendship/Friends'.
  6. BURGESS, p. 242 'Work'.
  7. Ibid., p. 98 'Hatred'.
  8. Ibid.'Philosophy'.
  9. Ibid., p. 242 'Work'.
  10. CONTINUUM, Vol. 4, No. 9, June 1982, p. 36.
  11. Ibid.,Vol. 9, No. 7, April 1987m p. 33.
  12. Ibid. Vol. 5, No. 9, June 1983, p. 47.
  13. B. Russell: "Mysticism and logic and Other Essays", UNWIN, 1963, pp. 48 - 58, Chapter III: "The Study of Mathematics" p. 49; first published as "Philosophical Essays", October 1910.
  14. B. Russell: "Mysticism and logic", 1917; UNWIN,1963, p. 10, Chapter 1., Paperbacks: "A Free Man's Worship and Other Essays", 1976, pp. 21 - 22, Chapter 2; ITQ, p. 421, 601.2, "Mysticism . . . universe"
  15. B. Russell: "Religion and Science", Home University Library, 1935; OXFORD, Paperback 1961, 1978, p. 210, Chapter VIII: "Cosmic Purpose".
  16. Ibid. p. 222.
  17. Ibid.p. 189, Chapter VII: "Mysticism".
  18. Ibid., p. 7, Chapter I: "Grounds of Conflict".
  19. Ibid., p. 8.
  20. B. Russell: "An Outline of Philosophy", UNWIN, 1927, Paperbacks 1979, p. 3, Chapter I: "Philosophic Doubts".
  21. Ibid. pp. 2 - 3.
  22. Ibid.; Arthur Koestler: "The Art of Creation", Hutchison, London, 1964, Danube edition 1969, PAM, 1970, p. 252.
  23. B. Russell: "The Problems of Philosophy", Home University Library 1912; OXFORD, Paperback, 1967, 1978, pp.89 - 90, Chapter 15: "The Value of Philosophy".
  24. Ibid., p. 6, Chapter I: "Appearance and Reality".
  25. Ibid. pp. 93 - 94, Chapter 15: "The Value of Philosophy".
  26. Ibid. pp. 90 - 91.
  27. Ibid., p. 91.
  28. B. Russell: "The Analysis of Mind", London, 1921, p. 212; READART, p. 53, Chapter 3: "On Perception and Imagination", Section 6: "The relevance of Imagery to Thinking", 'Footnote 28' .
  29. B. Russell: "Why I am not a Communist" in "Portraits from Memory, and other Essays", UNWIN1956, pp. 211 - 214; it appeared originally in the Background Book: Why I Opposed Communism", Phoenix House Ltd.
  30. B. Russell: "Autobiography", Vol. 1, 1967, UNWIN, 1956, p. 9, Prologue: "What I have Lived for".
  31. B. Russell: "Portraits from memory", UNWIN, 1956, p. 57 - 59, "Reflections on my eightieth Birthday'; Hao Wang: "From Mathematics to Philosophy", KEGAN, 1974, pp. 352 - 353.
  32. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan: "An Idealist View of life", UNWIN, 1937, Paperback, 1980, p. 32 Footnote 2.
  33. POTTAGEMATH, p. 347.
  34. ?
  35. ?
  36. Dennis Gabor: "Inventing the Future", WARBURG, 1963, PENGUIN, 1964, p. 158, Chapter 11.
  37. Albert Rosenfeld: "The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir", PERGAMON, 1966, p. 176.
  38. ?
  39. Laurence Le Shan & Henry Morgenass: "Einstein's Span and Van Gogh's Sky: Physical Reality and Beyond", MACMILLAN, 1982, p. 23 Chapter 2: "Structures of Reality, Domains and Realisms".

• Russel, Leo

  REF: BLUE

  

• Rutherford, Ernest -------1908 Nobel laureate for Chemistry

  * 30/08/1871 Nelson, New Zealand + 19/10/1937 * +Cambridge, England

  REF: TILLETTHUMM, p. 1 Chapter 1 "The Atom and Its Numbers".;EISELEYHORSES, p. 192 Chapter 16: "The Dancers in the Ring".