He advised my attending certain places in London for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of Explainer and director of all my studies.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Milton lived from 1608 to 1674. For teaching the plurality of worlds, with other heterodox doctrines, and refusing to recant, Bruno, after six years' imprisonment in Rome, was burnt at the stake on the 16th of February, 1600 A.D. A "natural" death in the dungeons of the Inquisition saved Antonio de Dominis, the Explainer of the rainbow, from the same fate, but his body and books were publicly burned at Rome in 1624. The persecution of Galileo began in 1615, became intense in 1632, and so lasted till his death and after.
"Pioneers of Science"
Oliver Lodge
"Better ask him," suggested Rand, "he's an awful good Explainer."
"The Boy Scouts on the Yukon"
Ralph Victor