Top Items About 17th Century
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Physician on the Roof | A hot-tempered eccentric, the English physician William Harvey did much of his thinking and reading on the roof of his... | Anonymous | 67 | |
| Anecdotes | Glorious Analogy | During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Lord Halifax was among the first to take up arms on behalf of the prince of Orange. | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Great Plague | In 1664, Czar Dmitri was allegedly told that a comet seen over Russia portended a plague in autumn, albeit one less... | Anonymous | 35 | |
| Anecdotes | Mi Fa Mi | Johannes Kepler inherited incredibly accurate astronomical records from his mentor Tycho Brahe and in 1610 began to... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | Second Thought | Rene Descartes once began work on a book about the universe in which he endorsed the Copernican (or heliocentric)... | Anonymous | 33 | |
| Anecdotes | Private Peter | At the end of the seventeenth century, Russian czar Peter the Great harbored many great hopes, foremost among them... | Anonymous | 27 | |
| Anecdotes | Minuit | On May 4th, 1626, the aptly-named Peter Minuit succeeded Willem Verhulst as the director general of New Netherland.... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Bang On | One evening during the Anglo-Dutch wars, Isaac Newton entered the hall at Trinity College, Cambridge and announced to... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Dodgy Defense | Ben Jonson was known for his fiery temper. "There is no arguing with Johnson," Oliver Goldsmith once remarked, "for when... | Anonymous | 20 | |
| Anecdotes | Sun King | Francois Mansart was walking with Louis XIV in the sun one day when the king, perhaps concerned for the... | Anonymous | 17 |
