Some influences on the young Isaac Newton

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-243
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
The Family

The appointment of a wife as sole executrix of her husband’s will seems to have been usual in Berkshire in the 17th century even when there were sons. If the same was true in Lincolnshire then no special significance follows from Newton’s grandfather, James Ayscough, having acted in this way in 1652 with respect to Margery, his widowto-be (Baird (1987), see page 172). The probate records at Reading, which were proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Berkshire, disclose that of the 200 wills made by men during this century, who had a wife still living, 161 made their wife sole executrix. The remaining 39 named various members of the family such as mothers, daughters, kinsmen, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, as well as sons. Nearly all these men left children, many of whom had grown-up sons and daughters of their own.

Free Your Mind

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Seligman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Farm ◽  
Bubonic Plague ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

This is not the first time that great universities have had to shut their doors during an epidemic. And there is perhaps a lesson for all students about what can happen during a shutdown. In 1665, Cambridge University closed as the bubonic plague swept across England. Isaac Newton, a 22-year-old student, was forced to retreat to the family farm, Woolsthorpe Manor. Isolated there for more than a year, on his own he revolutionized the scientific world. Newton said that this shutdown freed him from the pressures of the curriculum and led to the best intellectual years of his life.

The rise of gravity in the 17th century or a life in the day of Isaac Newton

Physics Today ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melburn R. Mayfield
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Isaac Newton

scholarly journals Maciej Ziemierski, Testamenty krakowskiej rodziny Królików z XVII w.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
Maciej Ziemierski
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Family Members ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Town ◽  
Distinguished Member

17th century testaments of the Królik family from Krakow The article is dedicated to the Królik family from Krakow, who lived in the town from the late 16th century until the first years of the 18th century. The family members initially worked as tailors, later reinforcing the group of Krakow merchants in the third generation (Maciej Królik). Wojciech Królik – from the fourth generation – was a miner in Olkusz. The text omits the most distinguished member of the family, Wojciech’s oldest brother, the Krakow councillor Mikołaj Królik, whose figure has been covered in a separate work. The work shows the complicated religious relations in the family of non-Catholics, initially highly engaged in the life of the Krakow Congregation, but whose members gradually converted from Evangelism to Catholicism. As a result, Wojciech Królik and his siblings became Catholics. This work is complemented by four testaments of family members, with the first, Jakub Królik’s, being written in 1626 and the last one, Wojciech Królik’s, written in 1691.

„…ki találhat bölcs asszonyt?” Némi betekintés a 16–17. századi papnék műveltségébe

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-253
Author(s):  
Marianna Bátoriné Misák ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Wise Woman ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources ◽  
Pastor's Wife

Abstract. “Who Can Find a Wise Woman?” Some Insights into the Education of the Wives of 16th-17th-Century Calvinist Priests. The paper examines the literacy of pastors’ wives during the 16th-17th centuries. For a long time, the opportunity for women to acquire literacy was only the privilege of the upper social strata, but literacy was not widespread among them either. This trend came to an end in the 17th century, for which period we also found examples of the literacy of urban citizens. The daughters of the lower social strata were prepared primarily to be good wives, housewives, and good mothers in the family, especially next to their mothers. Examining the preachers’ wives as a well-defined social group is a problem due to the scarcity of resources. In most cases, we know nothing but the name of the preacher’s wife, and we do not have information about their origins and families; if we do, however, then their social situation and the occupation of their parents provide a basis for research into their education. The conclusion of the research is that even if they did not receive a formal education, the 16th-17th-century Calvinist pastors’ wives were educated women. In many cases, this knowledge – primarily wisdom, life experience, and piety – and the virtues necessary for the roles of housewife, mother, and wife were the main aspects of choice for their husband. Keywords: pastor’s wife, Protestantism, literacy, 16th-17th century

The Misfortunes of William, Fourth Lord Petre (1638–1655)

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Clay
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Total Income ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Large Estate

The Lords Petre were always one of the most prominent of English Catholic families, and they were also one of the richest. Their landed estates had been built up in the middle of the sixteenth century by Sir William Petre, Secretary of State to three Tudor sovereigns. Sir William's son, John, was created a Baron in 1611, but in the early 17th century the family properties ceased to grow in size, partly because Catholicism excluded them from the profits of office, and partly because provision for younger sons offset such new acquisitions as were made. But even so the estates inherited by the third Lord Petre in 1637 were large enough to place him clearly in the ranks of the great landed magnates. In Essex he had a well-consolidated belt of land lying to the west and south-west of Chelmsford, and centred on the two family residences of Ingatestone Hall and Thorndon Hall. Altogether in Essex Petre had about 11,000 acres of freehold land and the lordship of seventeen manors, and these produced some £5,500 per annum or considerably more than half his total income from land. In addition he had a large estate on the opposite side of the country, in Devon. This lay in two distinct areas, one centred on Axminster and extending down the Axe valley and its tributaries, and the other in the southerly projection of the county on the southern edge of Dartmoor, where the principal possession was the vast moorland manor of South Brent. Besides the main estates in Essex and Devon, there were some isolated properties: the manor of Osmington down on the Dorset coast; Toddenham and Sutton in Gloucestershire; Kennett and Kentford on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border.

scholarly journals Sapiehas estate document from the end of the 17th century as a source of the family’s economic and political history

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-179
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ziober
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Political Scene

Abstract Property documents and more precisely, the inventories of earthly goods can be very helpful in explaining complicated political affairs. Also the nobles’ names, which are mentioned in registers, may show us the influence and the composition of the nobility, from which the lider’s property were leased. Residents of manors, which belonged to the Sapieha Family, actually were forced to gain some contact and be dependent on the Family, even if it was a part of economic relations, which could easily be transformed into a personal one. However, the manor reliances undoubtedly opened up opportunities for both sides, which juxtaposed the benefits and losses with possible closer cooperation. Despite property ties, by analyzing the mentioned document we can find out (among other knowledge) the information about subordination and independence. Moreover it is possible to take the notice of the moodiness of the political scene or of the global political tendencies of residents what was the scope of interests for researcher of economists and goods.

scholarly journals Andrey A. Winius (1641–1716), vertaler van fabels

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Irina Michajlova ◽  
Alexandra Yakovleva
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Life ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Russian Text ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
The Family

Andrey A. Winius (1641–1716) was born in Moscow in the family of Andrey D. Winius (1605–1662), Dutch merchant and manufacturer who lived in Russia from 1632 until his death. Winius junior was a high-ranking statesman who contributed a lot to Peter the Great’s reforms, which made Russia a Europe-oriented power. In 1674 he translated Vondel’s Vorsteliicke warande der dieren (1617) into Russian, supplementing this collection of fables with several texts from the Theatrum Morum by Aegidius Sadeler (1608). The Russian text, entitled The Theatre of Human Life, was distributed in handwritten form. In 1712, The Theatre was published in Moscow. In this article we analyze the Russian version of four fables in order to identify similarities with the sources and the changes Winius made. Besides shortening the original, he also sometimes supplemented the fables with his own moralistic thoughts. In these additions he urged readers to live honestly, respect each other, and not drink too much alcohol. In this way he tried to transfer humanistic ethical values that were common in Western Europe to the Russian society of the 17th century.

scholarly journals Katarina Elizabeta baronica Raumschüssl, rojena Sauer, in njena loretska kapela pri celjskih minoritih

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2021) (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorazd Bence
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Family Background ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Blessed Virgin Mary ◽  
The Family

On 30 June 1692, the widowed Baroness Katharina Elisabeth Raumschüssl from the family of Counts Sauer of Borl established the sung Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Celje Minorite monastery. This previously overlooked deed of gift is important not only as a testimony to the Baroness's pious intentions and the connections between the Sauers and the Celje Minorites but also because of its reference to the Loreto chapel in the monastery church, whose extension and furnishing the Baroness financed as well, according to the deed. The chapel is another in a series of copies of the Holy House of Loreto, Mary's house from Nazareth, many of which were also constructed in Styria by the end of the 17th century, especially by noble patrons. The article presents the Baroness's family background, related to the veneration of Our Lady of Loreto, and discusses the most probable location and reconstruction of the chapel. Based on the interpretation of Ignacij Orožen's record and the 1813 plan of the monastery, the present article presents a well-argued thesis that the Loreto chapel was once located on the site nowadays occupied by the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes in the succursal (formerly Minorite) Church of the Assumption of Mary in Celje.

scholarly journals Incomplete family as a factor of crime in adolescents and youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 02020
Author(s):  
Galina Kantemirova
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Young People ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Causes Of Crime ◽  
Main Factor

This work is devoted to one of the most important problems of our time, the problem of juvenile delinquency. The study of juvenile delinquency now has a special significance, since in many regions of our country the percentage of crimes committed by adolescents and young people is quite large, the crime rate is on the rise. The article aims to address the problem and the causes of crime. The publication touches on the topic of crime in the youth and adolescent families. Particular attention is paid by the author to the fact that the family is the main factor in the upbringing and socialization of children. Considerable attention is paid to an incomplete family, as a factor and a source of increased criminality. It is important not only to find out what are the causes of the increase in crime in adolescents and youth, but also to understand which preventive measures are the most effective one in combating crime.

“GARDENERS” OF THE DYNASTIC TREES OF RUSSIAN PRINCES AND TSARS. ABOUT VARIATIONS OF ONE MICRO-PLOT IN THE EAST SLAVIC ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Liudmila B. Sukina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Body Language ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Family ◽  
General Similarity ◽  
The One

In the East Slavic art of the 17th century images of the trees of the spiritual genealogy of Russian princes and tsars became widespread. Such compositions were present in book engraving, icon painting and fresco. Despite the general similarity, they differ in sets of images and micro-plots. The differences are due to the specific intent of each of the works. The article examines the micro-plot of the “planting” of the family tree as the most sapid and with its own variations. It’s included in the iconographic composition of five works of art from the second half of the 17th – early 18th centuries. In the paper, special attention is paid to the peculiarities of the depiction of the “gardeners” of the dynastic trees (Princess Olga, Prince Vladimir, Prince Ivan Kalita and Metropolitan Peter) and some other characters, as well as their attributes. With all the diversity of the personifications of “gardeners”, “body language” and symbols used by artists, iconographic solutions in each case worked for the one general idea. The czar dynasties of the Russian state were presented as clans founded by “right” rulers who gave their subjects state establishment and order, and also “enlightened” them with the Christian faith.

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