The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thucydides (c. 460 BC - c. 400 BC)
Ancient Athenian general and historian of the Peloponnesian War. He is called "the father of scientific history" because he explained events based on evidence and analysis instead of intervention by the gods. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-6427?rskey=zfuASU&result=2 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides References in Documents:Musaeum Clausum (1684)
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