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Mapping of the Republic of Letters shows that Benjamin Franklin's correspondence, while he was in Europe, crossed the Atlantic more times than Voltaire's.
<h3>What was the significance of the Republic of Letters project?</h3>
The Republic of Letters is the long-distance intellectual community inside the late seventeenth and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered verbal exchange between the various intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment or philosophes as they have been referred to in France.
Franklin's proposed alphabet protected seven letters to represent vowels. This set consisted of new letters, further to 5 letters from the present English alphabet: a, e, i, o, u. the first new letter was fashioned as a ligature of the letters o and a and used to represent the sound [ɔ] (as written in IPA).
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The correct answer is An article in the textbook that describes his expedition.
Hudson was an English navigator and explorer. It became noticed from 1607, but disappeared only four years later in tragic circumstances.
Little is known about his career in the previous period, but in the last years of his life he made four attempts to discover a shorter sea route to the East, sailing through the North.
In 1607, Hudson was hired by an English financial group. Sailing north, between Greenland and Spitzberg, he sought access to the East in the vicinity of the North Pole. An impassable ice barrier forced him to withdraw, however, when he was only 10º from the Pole.
In 1608, another failed attempt (followed a route along the northern coast of Asia).
Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, also known as The Mad Mahdi, was a religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan, so the answer is A