John Foxe

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Born

1516

Died

1587

Works

223

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Guildford

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John Foxe (1517 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs (properly The Acts and Monuments), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centu

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,574x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,691x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,351x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,324x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,849x

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Quotes

• “There is no keeping down of veritie, but it wil spring and come out of dust and ashes, as appeared right well in this man. For though they digged vp his body, burnt his bones, & drowned his ashes, yet þe word of God and truth of his doctrine with the fruit & successe therof they could not burne.”
• “M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe & sayde: I defie the Pope and all his lawes: and further added, that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to know more of the Scripture, then he did.”
• “At last, after muche reasoning, when no reason woulde serue, although he deserued no death, he was…brought forth to the place of execution, was there tied to þe stake, and then strangled first by the hangman, and afterward with fire consumed in the morning at the towne of Filford, an. 1536. crieng thus at the stake with a feruente zeale, and a loud voyce: Lord open the King of Englands eyes.”
• “Then brought they a fagot kindled with fire, and layd the same downe at D. Ridleys feete. To whome Maister Latymer spake in this maner: Be of good comfort maister Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out.”
• “Afterward she opened the matter more plainly to M. Rise and Mistres Clarentius (if it be true that they tolde me, whiche hearde it of M. Rise himselfe) who then being most familiar with her, & most bold about her, tolde her that they feared she took thought for king Philips departing from her. Not that onely (sayde she) but when I am dead & opened, you shall find Calice lying in my hart.”

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Key facts

Born

1516/1517, Boston , Lincolnshire , England

Died

18 April 1587, London, England

Occupation

Clergyman, author

Genre

Church history

Literary movement

Puritan

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