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April 5 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679); April 15 – Claudius Salmasius (Claude Saumaise), French classicist (died 1653); June 11 (probably) – George Wither, English poet and pamphleteer (died 1667) [1]
Robert Dudley was a pioneer of new industries; interested in many things from tapestries to mining, he was engaged in the first joint stock companies in English history. [168] The Earl also concerned himself with relieving unemployment among the poor. [169] On a personal level, he gave to poor people, petitioners, and prisons on a daily basis. [82]
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With only one ship left, Cavendish returned to England on 9 September 1588 completing a full circumnavigation of the Earth in record time. The voyage itself was hugely successful and made Cavendish rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the Pacific and the Spanish Philippines .
Thomas Hobbes (/ h ɒ b z / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. [5] [6]
Montaigne published the first two volumes of his Essais in 1580, printed by Simon Millanges [] in Bordeaux. [4] The books' success (1582 - a re-edition published in Bordeaux; [5] a possible re-edition published in Rouen before 1584 [6] and in 1587 a re-edition published in Paris [7]) attracted the interest of the Paris publisher Abel L'Angelier [], who, in 1588, published a new modified and ...
He blew with His winds, and they were scattered (Latin: Flavit et Dissipati Sunt) is a phrase used in the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It referred to the storms in the northern Atlantic Ocean that destroyed much of the Armada, a large naval fleet commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia , after it retreated following an ...
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