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History chapter 13 recap 1. Persons and Their Contributions: * John Wycliffe: First translation of the entire Bible into English. * William Tyndale: First printed version of the English New Testament. * Miles Coverdale: First printed version of the entire Bible in English. * John Cabot: First modern explorer to reach North America, claimed it for England. * Queen Elizabeth I: Daughter of Henry VIII. * Sir Francis Drake: First Englishman to sail around the world. * Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded the lost colony at Roanoke Island. * William Shakespeare: One of the greatest writers of all time. * Isaac Newton: Discovered gravity. * Francis Bacon: Devised the scientific method. * William Gilbert: Wrote the first English science book. * William Harvey: Discovered the circulation of blood. * Robert Boyle: Father of modern chemistry. * Edmund Halley: Predicted Halley’s Comet. * Robert Hooke: First man to see a living cell. * John Milton: Great poet who wrote Paradise Lost. * Christopher Wren: Designed 35 churches and rebuilt St. Paul’s Cathedral. * George Whitefield: England’s most famous preacher. * Robert Raikes: Father of the Sunday School movement. * William Carey: Father of modern missi...