Star Chamber

KEYS TO INFINITY TABLE 17.1. Star Chamber Growth... 

FIGURE 17.3. Twelve-sided star chamber. This strange object seems to be growing at a slower rate than the star chamber in Figure 17.2. How many stars are required to make an edge of this object as long as the diameter of our sun ... 

Chapter 17 Infinite Star Chambers Chapter 18 Infinitely Exploding Grcles... 

In concert with the widespread repression of the time. Dr John Whitgift s Star Chamber decree of 1586 restricted freedom of the press in England." Published manuscripts required the assent of either the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London. Exceedingly harsh penalties caused most writers to cease publishing entirely. Only those with implicit Royal support such as Sir Francis Bacon continued to publish and even then under pseudonyms. 

No one should presume to judge these men as they struggled with a future that even a mind as fundamental as Niels Bohr s could only barely imagine. But if Robert Oppenheimer ever had a chance to present Bohr s case to those who had the power to commit and to act he had it that morning. He did not speak the Dane s hard plain truths. He spoke instead as Aaron to Bohr s Moses. And Bohr, though he waited nearby in Washington, had not been invited to appear in the star chamber of that darkly paneled room. 

Therefore for the subjects good and welfare in future time, it is enacted that from henceforth no court, council, or place of judicature shall be erected, ordained, constituted, or appointed within this realm of England, or dominion of Wales, which shall have, use, or exercise the same, or the like jurisdiction, as is, or has been used, practised, or exercised in the said Court of Star Chamber . 

The supreme court in church matters, deeply implicated in attacks on Puritans, including Lilbume. Like the Star Chamber, its judges questioned the accused directly, and under oath — upon interrogatories as the Levellers called the process. They were thus, they argued, forced to condemn themselves, which God s command to preserve themselves forbade, or to endanger others, which was similarly forbidden. 

That you would have made full and ample reparations to all persons that had been oppressed by sentences in High Commission, Star Chamber and Council Board, or by any kind of monopolisers or projectors - and that out of the estates of those that were authors, actors or... 

Petty (or Pettus), Maximilian (1617-after 1660) A Leveller. Of an Oxfordshire gentry family, he met Sexby when they were both apprenticed to the Grocers Company of London. Perhaps he was one of the group of radical apprentices who supported Lilbume in his troubles with the bishops and Star Chamber in 1637-9. prominent figure in the Leveller movement, he helped write the Agreement of the people and was chosen with Wildman as a civilian speaker at the Putney debates. He helped write the second Leveller Agreement of 1648 which the army offices remodelled. Obscure after 1649, he was a member of the republican club, the Rota, in 1659 to 1660. 

Acts against dissolving the Long Parliament for the Abolition of Star Chamber, High Commission, ship-money and other prerogative taxes against... 

Lilburne tried, whipped and imprisoned by Star Chamber. He begins to publish anti-episcopal tracts describing his sufferings... 

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