In 1391 Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a partly completed instruction manual for a scientific instrument, in English (unusually in science) and designed to be simple. Which instrument?
Astrolabe It is known as "Treatise on the Astrolabe", opening with the phrase "Lyte Lowys my sone" and is specifically written for a child to understand easily.
The website for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) provides text in English, French and how many other languages?
Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, “For the Fallen” (1914)
When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so?
