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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France
Henry IV of France was the first of the Bourbon kings of France, reigning from 1589 until his death.
As a Huguenot, Henry was involved in the Wars of Religion before a... |
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Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian Composer
Giovanni Gabrieli is an important transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque eras and their associated musical styles. The distinctive sound of his music der... |
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Louise de Coligny
Louise de Coligny was de vierde echtgenote van prins Willem I. Zij werd geboren op als dochter van Gaspard de Coligny en Charlotte de Laval. Zij overleed op 13 november 1... |
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Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Theologian
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian, whose original name was Jacob Harmensen. He studied at Leiden, Marburg, Geneva, and Basel and in 1588 became a pastor at Amst... |
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History of Furniture Timeline
All styles and periods on one chard... |
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Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon achieved fame as an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and finally created Viscount S... |
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Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Jan Huygen van Linschoten was an adventurer who accompanied a Portuguese vessel to India. His Reysgheschrift, published in 1595, recorded explicit sailing directions he h... |
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Composer
By 1580, and possibly as early as 1577, he was organist at the Oude Kerk; his duties there were probably to provide an hour of music twice daily in the church. He becam... |
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