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  More info about: On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
  On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus: The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church...
         
  More info about: The Taiwan Timeline
  The Taiwan Timeline
Portuguese "discovered" Taiwan, and called it Ilha Formosa, the beautiful island....
         
  More info about: The Council of Trent
  The Council of Trent
The Council of Trent is reckoned by the Roman Catholic Church to be the Nineteenth Ecumenical Council of the universal church. It was held from December 13, 1545, to Dece...
         
  More info about: By Faith Alone, Luther
  By Faith Alone, Luther
Luther understands human nature and man's condition. He knows how Christians are and how they live...imperfectly! But, it is faith alone that justifies you in the eyes of...
         
  More info about: The Bondage of the Will, Luther
  The Bondage of the Will, Luther
Some will see this book as nothing more than Martin Luther's combative apologetic against the doctrine of free will and works salvation. But this is precisely why this bo...
         
  More info about: Tycho Brahe
  Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was born in Skane, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. His contributions to astronomy were enormous. He not only designed and built instruments, he also calibrate...
         
  More info about: Don John of Austria
  Don John of Austria
John of Austria, Spanish admiral and general; illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. He was acknowledged in his father's will and was recognized by his half br...
         
  More info about: Miguel de Cervantes, Creator Don Quixote
  Miguel de Cervantes, Creator Don Quixote
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature. Miguel de Cervantes, born in Alcalá de Henares in 1...
         
  More info about: Giordano Bruno
  Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher of the Renaissance and follower of Nicolas of Cusa. An aposotate Dominican, Bruno tried to incorporate both Copernican astronomy and hermetic mysticis...
         
  More info about: Simon Stevin, Engineer
  Simon Stevin, Engineer
Born at Bruges in 1548; died at Leyden in 1620. He was for some years book-keeper in a business house at Antwerp; later he secured employment in the administration of the...
         
  More info about: Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
  Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
Willem Barentz or Barents, made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596–97) in search of the Northeast Passage to Asia. He reached Novaya Zemlya on the first two expeditions. On...
         
  More info about: Napier, Inventor of Logarithms
  Napier, Inventor of Logarithms
John Napier has gone down in history as the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms (1614) and ‘Napier’s bones’, an early mechanical calcul...
         
  More info about: Edmund Spenser, The Prince of Poets
  Edmund Spenser, The Prince of Poets
Spenser was known to his contemporaries as 'the prince of poets', as great in English as Virgil in Latin. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry, fr...
         
  More info about: Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor as Rudolf II (1576-1612), King of Hungary as Rudolf (1572-1608), King of Bohemia as Rudolf II (1575-1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria as Ru...
         
  More info about: Sir Walter Raleigh, Writer and Explorer
  Sir Walter Raleigh, Writer and Explorer
Sir Walter Raleigh is a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584,...
         
         
 
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