The astronomy book

Headlines in history the 1500s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Elizabeth I and Mary, queen of scots -- Battle of Lepanto: Last crusade -- Huguenots and catholics in France -- Russia and Ivan the terrible -- Freebooters and sea dogs: Pirates of the spanish main -- Henry VIII and Thomas More: Conscience versus politics -- Chapter 2 -- Lost colony: Roanoke -- Singeing the King's beard: Exploits of Francis Drake -- Spanish Armada: Less than invincible -- Chapter 3 -- Superstition and the sixteenth-century worldview -- Renaissance city life -- Pre-Shakespearean drama -- Apparel and attire -- Gregorian calendar -- Copernican revolution -- Shakespeare -- Chapter 4 -- Michelangelo -- Renaissance painting -- Science, art, and the renaissance -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Chapter 5 -- Church in 1500 -- Justification by faith: Early lutheran thought -- Luther and the diet of worms -- John Calvin: Philosophy of protestantism -- Counter reformation -- Chapter 6 -- Atlantic slave trade -- North African culture -- Suleyman the magnificent -- Japan and the west -- Mughal empire of India -- Expanding the menu -- Chapter 7 -- Portuguese arrival in Brazil -- Magellan in the pacific -- Northeast passage: Search of the impossible grail -- Maps and atlases -- Chapter 8 -- Massacre and siege -- End of empire -- Fall of the Inca.…”

Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660 by Ben-Zaken, Avner

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