That was then, this is now, concentration of notables edition

Napier’s continental sojourn had embraced the years 1564 to 1571, the year of the Ridolfi Plot. During his absence Galileo, Shakespeare, Caravaggio and Kepler had been born, Michelangelo, Calvin, Nostradamus and Stifel had died, Pope Pius V had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of…

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