Master astrologer. Born Leicestershire. Allegedly predicted the Great Fire of London 14 years before it happened. He was accused of having started the fire and was tried but, there being no evidence, he was found innocent. Died at home in Hersham.
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William Lilly
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William Lilly
City of Westminster William Lilly (1602 - 1681) master astrologer, lived in ...
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Royal Institution (of Great Britain)
A group of men started meeting at Gresham College and formed a society to promote experimental knowledge. Achieved the royal charter in 1662. Still in its original premises at 21 Albemarle Street, ...
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Charles Darwin
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Justus von Liebig
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Alfred Nobel
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Â Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. Â An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
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