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Christopher Columbus was born between August 25 and October 31, 1451 in Genoa, part of modern Italy

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Aryabhata, 5th century, developed a computational planetary model which has been interpreted as heliocentric

To anyone who stands and looks at the sky, it seems clear that the Earth stays in one place while everything in the sky rises and sets or goes around once every day.

To anyone who stands and looks at the sky, it seems clear that the Earth stays in one place while everything in the sky rises and sets or goes around once every day.

Kak interprets this to mean that the Sun is stationary, hence the Earth is moving around it. A more common interpretation, however, is that the Sun "never actually sets or rises" because it was believed to have two sides: one light and one dark. Consequently, when the sun reaches the western horizon, it simply flips on itself and invisibly returns to its original place in a continuous cycle

. From his estimates, he concluded that the Sun was six to seven times wider than the Earth and thus hundreds of times more voluminous

As a result of this and his revolutionary theological views, his legacy remains controversial

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At Wartburg Castle

In 1516-17, Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar and papal commissioner for indulgences, was sent to Germany by the Roman Catholic Church to sell indulgences to raise money to rebuild St Peter's Basilica in Rome

While the Inca often tolerated or incorporated the religions of their conquered ayllus they also imposed a state religion upon them. The Inca empire was a theocracy in which the Inca king, Sapa Inca, was the descendant of Inti, the sun god. The Inca required tribute, especially before and after battle, to certain gods. Regular and general festivals punctuated the labors of the empire's subjects with food drink and entertainments. Inti Raymi, the festival of the sun god, lasted nine nights, during which Sapa Inca would provide Aqhachicha, a maize beer, to first Inti, then himself, then the nobles, and finally to all people who attended.

Foxe personally witnessed the burning of William Cowbridge in September 1538.

Foxe resigned from his college in 1545 after becoming an evangelical and thereby subscribing to beliefs condemned by the Church of England under Henry VIII.

He also worked unsuccessfully to prevent the two burnings for religion that occurred during the reign of Edward VI.

Foxe moved to London and probably lived in Stepney. There he completed three translations of Protestant sermons published by the "stout Protestant" Hugh Singleton.

Foxe often treated this material casually, and any reader "must be prepared to meet plenty of small errors and inconsistencies

his was an age not only of strong language but of cruel deeds.

Foxe was, after all, describing the burning of human beings for the crime of holding unfashionable religious opinions.

Foxe was so bookish that he ruined his health by his persistent study

John Day's son Richard, who knew Foxe well, described him in 1607 as an "excellent man...exceeding laborious in his pen...his learning inferior to none of his age and time