This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration – when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.
-Russell Shorto
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