- Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)@
Learn about Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher regarded as the father of modern physics and astronomy whose achievements include improvements to the telescope, a number of breakthrough astronomical observations, and effective support for Copernicanism. Sites feature biography, his pioneering scientific contributions, the influence of his mathematics on Renaissance art, and his struggles to persuade the Church of the truth behind his discoveries about the cosmos.
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- Nostradamus (1503-1566)@
Discover Nostradamus, the 16th century French physician and astrologer known for his prophetic quatrains. Sites feature life, writings, prophecies, translations, hoaxes, and misquotes attributed to the prophet who predicted various events including World War III, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and political upheavals.
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- Elizabeth I (1533-1603)@
Learn about Elizabeth I, Queen of England, France, and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, her reign referred to as the Elizabethan era brought in reforms of the Church of England establishing a compromise between Catholic and Protestant. Sites offer history, biography, genealogy, legacy, reign, poems and speeches, and photographs.
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- Drake, Sir Francis (c.1540-1596)@
Learn about Sir Francis Drake, also known as El Dragon, the 16th century sea captain, privateer, and first English mariner to circumnavigate the globe aboard his ship named The Golden Hind.
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- Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469-1527)@
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- Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)@
Learn about Johannes Kepler, the 16th century German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer best known for his laws of planetary motion which laid the foundation of Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, animated explanation of his laws, and the famous Kepler's Conjecture.
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- Mary I (1516-1558)@
Learn about Queen Mary I, known as Bloody Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
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- Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)@
Find out about Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer, physician, economist, and soldier who formulated the first modern heliocentric theory of the solar system. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, the evolution of Copernicanism, original works, and his epochal astronomy book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
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- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)@
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- Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)@
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- Henry VIII (1491-1547)@
Read about Henry VIII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland, from 1509 to 1547, during whose reign bought in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the union of England and Wales and also was known for religious upheavals. Sites feature biography, genealogy, legacy, history, foreign policy, and split of British Monarch with Rome over the issue of divorce.
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- Akbar the Great (1556-1605)@
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- Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1541)@
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- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez@
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- Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco (1510-1554)@
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- Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)@
Explore the theories of Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist who worked to combine the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, patronage, lecture notes, and portraits.
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- Cortés, Hernán (1485-1547)@
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- Hudson, Henry (1570?-1611)@
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- Erasmus, Desiderius (1469-1536)@
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- Champlain, Samuel de (1567-1635)@
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