4.2: petrajane solved this; the westernmost point of New Zealand's North Island's Northland province is Cape Maria van Diemen.
4.4: I had some ideas, but they weren't too close to reality. Wikoogled that the painter Carel Fabritius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Fabritius) painted The Goldfinch in 1654 and died when the gunpowder depot in Delft exploded the same year.
4.5: As opposed to the previous question, I had heard about this guy, but only found the answer via wikoogle: Willem Blaeu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Blaeu) studied with Tycho, and became cartographer for the Dutch East India Company. His sons were also cartographers – the family's main claim to fame (ie why I'd heard of them) is the Atlas Maior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Maior), the "largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century", which has been covetably facsimiled by Taschen (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/44808/facts.blaeu_atlas_maior.htm).
4.6: Solved by seanwalsh: Rombertus_van_Uylenburgh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rombertus_van_Uylenburgh) was the father of Rembrandt's wife Saskia, and embarrassed, was invited to the lunch, because there were no other guests. At the end of the meal, William of Orange stumbled on the stair, and was then murdered with a pistol by Balthasar Gerards..
4.8: Also solved by seanwalsh: Erasmus of Rotterdam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_of_Rotterdam).
Btw I've received some undue credit (2.3 and 2.4).
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Date: 2013-01-05 08:26 pm (UTC)4.2: petrajane solved this; the westernmost point of New Zealand's North Island's Northland province is Cape Maria van Diemen.
4.4: I had some ideas, but they weren't too close to reality. Wikoogled that the painter Carel Fabritius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Fabritius) painted The Goldfinch in 1654 and died when the gunpowder depot in Delft exploded the same year.
4.5: As opposed to the previous question, I had heard about this guy, but only found the answer via wikoogle: Willem Blaeu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Blaeu) studied with Tycho, and became cartographer for the Dutch East India Company. His sons were also cartographers – the family's main claim to fame (ie why I'd heard of them) is the Atlas Maior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Maior), the "largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century", which has been covetably facsimiled by Taschen (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/classics/all/44808/facts.blaeu_atlas_maior.htm).
4.6: Solved by seanwalsh: Rombertus_van_Uylenburgh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rombertus_van_Uylenburgh) was the father of Rembrandt's wife Saskia, and embarrassed, was invited to the lunch, because there were no other guests. At the end of the meal, William of Orange stumbled on the stair, and was then murdered with a pistol by Balthasar Gerards..
4.8: Also solved by seanwalsh: Erasmus of Rotterdam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_of_Rotterdam).
Btw I've received some undue credit (2.3 and 2.4).