Page:The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius (1896).pdf/471

 Author:Georgius Agricola (born in Saxony, 1490).—The founder of the modern school of mineralogy and metallurgy. Mining in Germany owed much to his researches, which were considered authoritative as late as the eighteenth century.

(1488–1522).—Born at Mecheln and resident in Paris. A renowned classic of his day. Died at Padua.

.—Lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. Was town physician at Speyer.

Author:Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494).—In early youth gave evidence of remarkable ability. When fourteen years old went to Bologna, where he studied canon law and philosophy. His memory was so retentive that if 20,000 words were repeated to him once, he could reproduce them in the same order. He published 900 theses and challenged the learned men of the whole world to dispute with him on any one of them. Accused of heresy, he was acquitted by Pope Innocent VIII. He died at Florence.

Author:Joseph Justus Scaliger.—Flourished in France at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. Possessed a marvellous knowledge of the classics and of oriental languages. His learning was more than equalled by his vanity and quarrelsomeness.

.—Professor of Mathematics and Humanity at the University of Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century. Was killed in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24th, 1572.

(1574–1638).—A Polish Jesuit, Professor of Oratory, Mathematics, and Theology. Was author of a Thesaurum Polono-Latino-Græcum.

Not conjunctus but convinctus is now the generally accepted derivation of cunctus.

or (died in 1536).—Born at Antwerp and brought up at the court of Maximilian I. A man of varied talent, and a voluminous author, he attained success as a mathematician, a philologist, a painter, and an etcher.

Author:Robert Fludd (1574–1637).—Born at Milgate in Kent. Travelled in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, and finally settled in London, where he practised medicine. On physics he had the most fantastic notions, and imagined that the root principles of chemistry were to be found in the Bible. Was author of a Meteorologica Cosmica.

(1511–1564).—A member of the Reformed Church, born at Ypres. He studied at Paris and lectured there on Dialectic and Rhetoric, afterwards becoming Professor of Theology at Marburg.

.—A Catholic Bishop who lived about 500