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Há 1 dia · Hooke often met Christopher Wren, with whom he shared many interests, and had a lasting friendship with John Aubrey. His diaries also make frequent reference to meetings at coffeehouses and taverns, as well as to dinners with Robert Boyle.
Há 20 horas · An influential account of the circumstances of his death was given by John Aubrey's Brief Lives. [85] Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, has him journeying to High-gate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow ...
Há 1 dia · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost , written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Há 3 dias · John Aubrey (admitted commoner in 1642) recounts many amusing anecdotes of Kettell's eccentric and often humorous words and deeds, but recognized that he was really a man of 'great subtilty and reach', a judicious and generous disciplinarian, and conservative without being reactionary as an administrator.
18 de ago. de 2024 · The famous antiquarian John Aubrey mentions that this hill could have been a burial mound in his Monumenta Britannica written in 1670. Uther Pendragon, who was King Arthur’s father, is thought to have fought the Saxons at Uffington, died in battle, and then been laid to rest at this very chalk mound.
15 de ago. de 2024 · In his brief biography of the Royalist poet Katherine Philips (1632-1664), known in her time as “The Matchless Orinda,” John Aubrey (the cousin of Philips' lifelong friend and schoolmate, Mary...
Há 1 dia · September 10, 2024 4:34 pm CT. Officially speaking, Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey connected on 4-of-4 field goal attempts in Cleveland- every single one from 40 yards or more- during the team’s ...
