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  More info about: Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor VOC
  Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor VOC
Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies...
         
  More info about: Joost Van Den Vondel
  Joost Van Den Vondel
Netherlands poet and convert, born at Cologne, 17 Nov. 1587, of parents whose residence was originally at Antwerp. Of his early youth nothing is known. In his eighth or n...
         
  More info about: Thomas Hobbes
  Thomas Hobbes
Decades after completing his traditional education as a classicist at Oxford and serving as tutor of William Cavendish, Thomas Hobbes became convinced that the methods em...
         
  More info about: The Faerie Queene, Spenser
  The Faerie Queene, Spenser
Epic poem that was published between 1590 and 1609 by Edmund Spenser. It is the central poem of the Elizabethan period and is one of the great long poems in the English l...
         
  More info about: Digital History
  Digital History
American History: Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive mater...
         
  More info about: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover of King James I of England[1] and one of the most rewarded royal courtiers in...
         
  More info about: Pierre Gassendi, French Scientist
  Pierre Gassendi, French Scientist
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer/astrologer, and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Chris...
         
  More info about: Shah Jahan, Builder of the Taj Mahal
  Shah Jahan, Builder of the Taj Mahal
Shahabuddin Mohammed was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent from 1628 until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World...
         
  More info about: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
  Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tale of two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" who fall in love despite the ongoing feud between their two families, the Montagues and the...
         
  More info about: Pocahontas, Indian Princess
  Pocahontas, Indian Princess
Pocahontas was an Indian princess, the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She was born around 1595 to...
         
  More info about: Andreas Cellarius, Cosmographer
  Andreas Cellarius, Cosmographer
Andreas Cellarius, the Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer is well known to map historians and historians of astronomy as the author of the Harmonia Macrocosmica...
         
  More info about: Itinerario, Jan Huygen van Linschoten
  Itinerario, Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562-1611) was a Dutchman who in 1596 pen...
         
  More info about: René Descartes, French Philosopher
  René Descartes, French Philosopher
Unsatisfied with scholastic philosophy and troubled by skepticism of the sort expounded by Montaigne, Descartes soon conceived a comprehensive plan for applying mathemati...
         
  More info about: Constantijn Huygens, Poet/Composer
  Constantijn Huygens, Poet/Composer
Constantijn Huygens was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He is often considered a member of what i...
         
  More info about: Maarten Tromp, Dutch Admiral
  Maarten Tromp, Dutch Admiral
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy. Born in Den Briel, Tromp sailed the seas from the age of nine, and joined the Dutch navy as...
         
         
 
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