Birth SignAquarius BirthplaceLondon,England DEATH DATEApr 9, 1626 (age65) #51,049Most Popular Boost About Renaissance author and philosopher best known for his advocacy of the scientific method. He was knighted by King James I in 1603. ...
One hundred and thirty years had elapsed since the death of the great Newton, when (in 1858) the men of Lincolnshire raised in Grantham, the birthplace of their illustrious townsman, a statue to his memory. We grow impatient to place the effigies of a great soldier upon some lofty column,...
Sir William Berkeley was a British colonial governor of Virginia during Bacon’s Rebellion, an armed uprising (1676) against his moderate Indian policy. Berkeley was the youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley and the brother of John Berkeley, lst Baron Ber