Pleiades
A prominent open cluster in Taurus, popularly termed the Seven Sisters, and also known as M45. The cluster spans over 1½° of sky and contains about 100 stars, the brightest of which is 3rd-magnitude ...
Scottish literature
The literary languages of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Scotland were Scots and Latin; very little Gaelic literature survives, though there is an important collection of ballads in the manuscript ...
Wechel family
A dynasty of German humanist printers active in Paris from the 1520s, in Frankfurt from 1572, and subsequently in Hanau and Basel. Christian Wechel (c.1520–54) inaugurated the publishing house in ...
William Barclay
(1546/7–1608),Scottish jurist and political philosopher in France and England. Barclay was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and left Scotland for France in 1573. He studied civil law in ...
