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‘Politically Repurposed’ Copy of Famous Shakespearean Love Sonnet Discovered Inside a 17th-Century Poetry Collection
The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...
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After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook
As Franklin later recalled, he “acquired fair writing pretty soon ... decimal British currency and a gentle introduction to 17th-century England’s bamboozling array of weights and measures.
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Britain began industrializing in the 17th century—more than 100 years earlier than history books claim
The research shows that 17th century Britain saw a steep decline ... In fact, by the early 1800s, when William Blake was writing of "dark satanic mills," numbers involved in manufacturing had ...