Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century, more than in the Middle Ages, magic flourished and excited men's burgeoning curiosity like commerce, art, religious debate, exploration. Yet the use of magic rites, incantations, number-conjurings, etc. was falling off. Imperceptibly the way was clearing for experimental discoveries...
...potato came to Europe from the New World in the 16th Century. Its parasitic fungus followed about 1840, attacked almost every potato plant in Europe. Worst outbreak was in Ireland, whose wretched peasantry was already starving because of another parasite, the English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event...
Celestial Life. "The trend [of scientific thought] can be better judged," says Sherrington, "by comparison of general positions taken a significant interval apart." For contrast with his own views, Sherrington selects those of Jean-Fernel, greatest physician of the 16th Century. In an age obsessed with magic and astrology, hardheaded Fernel insisted on natural rather than supernatural causes for disease...
...read the eulogy of Pierre la Rose signed F.G. in the Crimson of the 16th and although it was charmingly written, I believe the author could very well have omitted the little suggestive slam about Pierre's name. At best it was catty, for if there was a secret it was Pierre's secret, and should have been respected. I knew La Rose well, serving him for 40 years, framing hundreds of his charming exquisitely drawn coats of arms, and always he lived as a man with the name Pierre de Chaignon la Rose would be expected to live. Peace...
Formed in the 16th Century to harass Spanish conquerors, Les Gueux was revived last year by students of the Nazi-shuttered Universities of Delft and Leiden. With them it has become a truly underground organization, with many of its members hiding out in cellars of bomb-wrecked buildings...