FRANCIS DRAKE-A SUCCESSFUL EXPLORER... In my humble opinion‚ the best explorer in the late 15th/16th century was Sir Francis Drake. Not only was he the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe‚ but his voyages helped create a more accurate picture of the world‚ which can help us greatly and helped the Tudors in England at the time‚ who only argued that the world was flat and did not know all the countries present‚ whom Drake saw and studied himself through his voyages. Also he founded the
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A crowd of natives has just carried Francis Macomber triumphantly into camp. Macomber‚ a good-looking athletic type‚ has just blown it on a lion hunting adventure and now everyone knows he’s a coward. Macomber’s wife can’t contain her resentment and humiliation about her husband’s breakdown on the hunt. This is not a proud moment for the Macombers. Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Shmoop.com. Shmoop University‚ Inc.‚ 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 12 Apr. 2013. "Hemingway’s
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Galileo Galilei was born on February 15‚ 1564‚ in Pisa‚ Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei‚ a trader and Giula Ammannati‚ an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy‚ his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved into a nearby monastery with the intentions of becoming a monk‚ but he left the monastery when he was 15 because his father disapproved of his son becoming a monk. In November of 1581‚ Vincenzio Galilei
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architecture. The Scientific Revolution ended in the 1700’s with the start of the Enlightenment. There were several philosophers who played a role in the Scientific Revolution such as Galileo‚ Kepler‚ and Descartes. Amidst one of these great philosophers was Copernicus. He lived at the peak of the Renaissance. Copernicus with his insight brought about drastic change. His ideas went away from the ancient and medieval ways and shifted to what was soon to be called the modern era. Science was beginning
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its terseness. Bacon displays a great talent for condensation. Every sentence in his essays is pregnant with meaning and is capable of being expanded into several sentences. Many of sentences appear to be proverbial saying by virtue of their gems of thoughts expressed in a pithy manner. Its can say two most in the fewest words. Its essays combine wisdom in thoughts with extreme brevity. The short pithy sayings in his essays have become popular mottoes and house hold expressions. Bacon appears before
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Todays lecture will focus on the teachings of the highly esteemed Aristotle. Specifically we will be exploring two major questions that are highly important when comparing the great Aristotle to the heretic Galileo. The major questions that we will delve into today are: Does the Earth move? as well as‚ Is the universe bounded‚ as Aristotle maintained‚ or is it infinite? Aristotle firmly believes that the Earth is immovable‚ he backs his claim with both science and the word of our Lord. As the lowly
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St. Francis Xavier is famous for his missionary work in the Far East during the 16th century‚ shortly following the opening of Western trade routes in the east. Based in Goa‚ he worked with an unparalleled apostolic zeal‚ preaching‚ converting natives‚ founding schools and missions‚ and forming novitiates. He was aided by a number of western priests‚ but also recruited dozens of talented native believers into the priesthood. He learned numerous languages‚ translated hundreds of documents into native
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above all else? In Bertolt Brechts‚ The life of Galileo‚ the idea of the Catholic church controlling information is a central theme. The conflict of intellectual freedom; between the individual and authority. The Life of Galileo suggests that it is only through the process of questioning – and engaging that society can learn and grow‚ and one should treasure their intellectual freedom‚ as depicted through the main character‚ Galileo. When Galileo discovers new evidence about the rotation of the
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Francis Marion 1732-1795 Also known as: Swamp Fox Born: WINTER‚ 1732 in South Carolina‚ United States‚ Berkeley County Died: February 27‚ 1795 Occupation: General Source Database: DISCovering U.S. History Table of Contents Biographical Essay | Further Readings | Source Citation Hero of the southern campaign in the American Revolution‚ who was known for his mastery of the small-unit tactics necessary for effective guerrilla warfare. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Francis Marion was born in the winter of
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Galileo would be considered a heretic because of how he disagrees with the church and how he disagrees with the Bible. In Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina of Tuscany in 1615 Galileo states that “... [Professors against Galileo] made a grave mistake of sprinkling [Galileo’s work] with passages taken from the places in the Bible‚ which they failed to understand properly.” Galileo thinks that the professors are cherry picking the Bible to disprove his work. The passages that the professors used
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