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Category: Hayward Beywood

Horace-Benedict de Saussure, 1740–1799
02/18/2012
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| Contributing Writers, English, Hayward Beywood

The young Horace-B ?n ?dict de Saussure visited Chamonix in 1760 and developed the ambition to stand on top of Mont Blanc or at least to be responsible for it being climbed. For this purpose he posted notices in all the surrounding villages offering a reward to the first person to reach the summit of the “Great White Mountain” at 4,807 metres, but it would be twenty-six years before anyone claimed the prize. In 1785 he had a small hut built…

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MICHAEL SERVETUS (1511-1553)
12/12/2009
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Even the good and the great can make the most terrible gaffes, and the burning of Michael Servetus at the stake in Champel in 1553 is generally considered to be the most serious error of judgement in the otherwise exemplary life and career of Jean Calvin, Geneva’s Protestant ruler in the sixteenth century. At that epoch, it was quite common for scholars to use a Latin or Greek form of their name. Thus, Michael Servetus was born Miguel Serveto-in…

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