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12 books of natural history in 17th century, key Books in the Rise of Empirical Science.

This group of books traces the slow, uneven emergence of an empirical worldview in the seventeenth century, when observation, experiment, and inherited learning coexisted in productive tension. At its center stands Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius and Johannes Kepler’s Dioptrice, works that permanently altered how the heavens could be seen and described, here mediated through Pierre…

12 books of natural history in 17th century, key Books in the Rise of Empirical Science.

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9 books of natural history in 17th century UK

Onomasticon zoicon, 1668. Bernardus Connor and the Science Behind Gospel Miracles The History of the Royal-Society of London 1667. Edward Brown’s 1677 Travels through Germany: Natural History, Mines & Baths. The Works Of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown 1686 Of The Advancement And Proficience Of Learning 1640 Strimesius’s Somatologia 1697 Natural ? History & “The devil’s arse” A Restitution of…

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The Fenian Ram

Fenian Ram is a submarine designed by John Philip Holland for use by the Fenian Brotherhood, the American counterpart to the Irish Republican Brotherhood, against the British. The Ram’s construction and launching in 1881 by the Delamater Iron Company in New York was funded by the Fenians’ Skirmishing Fund. Officially Holland Boat No. II, the role of the Fenians in its funding led to the New York…

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The face of Him on Whom I gazed I can never forget, though I cannot describe it. Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; power and authority sat on that ample brow.… No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before one who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain.

Edward Granville Browne