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    Summary of John E. Wills, Jr.'s 1688
    Summary of John E. Wills, Jr.'s 1688
    Summary of John E. Wills, Jr.'s 1688
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    Summary of John E. Wills, Jr.'s 1688

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    #1 As the earth rotates, the light of the sun moves from the gray and pale blue of the Pacific onto the forests and fields of Japan and Luzon. In the seething energy and hard-won order of the streets of Edo, the great capital city of Japan’s hereditary military dictators, the heavy wooden gates of residential quarters are swung open.

    #2 The world in a single year is an artificial construct. It is easier for us to travel to different parts of the world and communicate with each other via computer and telecommunications networks than it was for people in 1688.

    #3 The world of 1688 was very different from ours. It was much quieter, with no electronic amplifiers or internal-combustion engines. Life expectancies were shorter because no one knew how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or reduce the hazards of childbirth.

    #4 I have tried to read the records against the grain, not to succumb to the prejudices of the writers. I have also tried to convey to my reader some of my astonishment at the voices I have heard.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateAug 18, 2022
    ISBN9798350015911
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      #1

      As the earth rotates, the light of the sun moves from the gray and pale blue of the Pacific onto the forests and fields of Japan and Luzon. In the seething energy and hard-won order of the streets of Edo, the great capital city of Japan’s hereditary military dictators, the heavy wooden gates of residential quarters are swung open.

      #2

      The world in a single year is an artificial construct. It is easier for us to travel to different parts of the world and communicate with each other via computer and telecommunications networks than it was for people in 1688.

      #3

      The world of 1688 was very different from ours. It was much quieter, with no electronic amplifiers or internal-combustion engines. Life expectancies were shorter because no one knew how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or reduce the hazards of childbirth.

      #4

      I have tried to read the records against the grain, not to succumb to the prejudices of the writers. I have also tried to convey to my reader some of my astonishment at the voices I have heard.

      #5

      The voices we hear when we read are a common but still mysterious experience in our literate cultures. They are often impersonal, but sometimes they are inseparable from singular individuals and their lives.

      #6

      The 1688 comet had a profound impact on people around the world. It was the first time many people had seen the intricacies and ironies of human nature, and they were able to give elegant accounts of the orbits of sun, moon, stars, and even comets.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      The world of wooden ships included the Spanish galleons that carried silver across the Atlantic and the Pacific, and the complex commerce in slaves, gold, cloth, guns, and much more that linked West Africa with Europe and the Americas.

      #2

      The intensity of commerce connecting Europe, Africa, and America made the South Atlantic one of the best-known and most regularly crossed stretches of open ocean in 1688. It was two hundred years since the first projections westward of Spanish and Portuguese power, but no one could have imagined how those small beginnings would lead to the westward flow of willing emigrants and the eastward flow of treasure.

      #3

      On April 28, 1688, a long procession left Mexico City, crossed the lakes, and traveled through the small towns and farms of the plateau to the pass between the two volcanoes Iztaccihuatl and Popocatépetl. The farmers stopped their work to look at the procession.

      #4

      Mexico in the 1680s was a society of dramatic contradictions. The elegant viceregal court and the opulent ecclesiastical hierarchy looked toward Europe for style and ideas. The vast majority of the population sought to preserve as much as possible of the language, beliefs, and ways of life that had guided them before the coming of the Spaniards.

      #5

      Sor Juana was a Mexican creole woman who was born in 1651. She was taken into the household of a newly arrived viceroy, as his wife’s favorite and constant companion. She had no dowry, but she had learned to enjoy the attention and admiration of her cleverness.

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