The 10 Most Valuable Record Covers. The Beatles Butcher cover. I know some of you reading this will find it hard to believe, but once upon a time the cover of a vinyl record was a major selling point to the album. Sometimes people actually took a chance on a record because the cover was so cool, never happens today.
Marquis de Condorcet (1743). Marquis de Condorcet. It was on this date, September 17, 1743, that French mathematician and political philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, was born in Ribemont, Picardy, France.
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), leader of elite French science. John van Wyhe, Fellow, National University of Singapore; Researcher, History & philosophy of science, Cambridge University. Georges Cuvier was one of the most influential figures in science during the early nineteenth century. A self-appointed referee of proper science from his stronghold in the elite AcadÃ©mie des Sciences, Cuvier was as successful in creating his own image as a great man of science as he was in the many areas of science he studied.