Exam 1: Famous Authors and Works in History

...............has been reputed as the "Father of Experimental Science".

The first comprehensive history of India entitled History of British India (1818), was written by ......................

René Descartes was a ................philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

................, whose 'Praise of Folly'epitomized the moral essence of humanism in its insistence on heartfelt goodness as opposed to formalistic piety.

In .................. great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, which describes the destructive conflict between Athens and Sparta.

'Genealogia' is the work of ................... of Miletus.

Francis Bacon was an ..............philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author.

The fall of Constantinople in ................. AD provided humanism with a major boost, for many eastern scholars fled to Italy, bringing with them important books and manuscripts and a tradition of Greek scholarship.

.....................classic novel is 'Heart of Darkness' (1899).

............... was the court historian of Sultan Alauddin Khalji

Who is the Author of what is History?

It was at Cambridge that Francis Bacon first met ............., who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling him The Young Lord Keeper.

...................... has been called the "father of history."

............... two great works-the Annals, and the Histories.

The most well-known originator of Roman historiography was .............., also known as the "Founder of Historiography".

Humanism began and achieved fruition first in ..............

In 1989, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ....................wrote an article in the National Interest called "The End of History."

............... , one of the greatest Roman historians, lived through the fall of the republic and the establishment of the principate by Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in .............. and published in 1620.

James I came to power in England in ...................