Minerva is both a Roman goddess and a patroness. In Roman mythology, Minerva is the goddess of wisdom, arts, trade, science, and war. As a patroness, she is the protectors of physicians.
"Hippocrates..."See in text(Part I - Chapter Five)
Traditionally known as the "Father of Medicine," Hippocrates was a Greek physician who used rational thinking as one of his methodologies, for which he is also known as the father of rational thinking.
"the beautiful Ferroniere..."See in text(Part I - Chapter Six)
Leonardo Da Vinci's painting La Belle Ferroniere, which means the beautiful daughter of an ironmonger, is also known in the English-speaking world as "The Portrait of the Unknown Woman" and has the same air of mystery as The Mona Lisa.
"Savoyard Vicar..."See in text(Part II - Chapter One)
*Professions of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar *is a type of manifesto written by the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau through which the author expresses his own views of religion via the fictitious character of a Catholic vicar.
Socrates (469–399 B.C.E.) was a Greek Philosopher, whose attitudes and ideas modeled the Western philosophical constructs by which everything, from our law system to our teaching system, operate.
