For Those Who Dare : 101 Great Christians and How They Changed the World

by Tiner, John Hudson

• ISBN13: 9780890513750
• ISBN10: 0890513759
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: New Leaf Pr

Summary

In this scholarly work by popular homeschool author John Tiner, brief biographies of the most successful, influential, and renowned Christians of all time are presented. Inventors, reformers, statesmen, authors, and others from all walks of life are brought here by a common bond: a life wholly dedicated to God. Discover facts that you didn't know about names you know well. Meet new personalities behind famous inventions and discoveries. This book is a tribute to what God can do with a life given to Him.

Table of Contents

About For Those Who Dare	11	(1)
Roger Bacon	12	(3)
Dante Alighieri	15	(3)
John Wycliffe	18	(2)
Johannes Gutenberg	20	(3)
Albrecht Durer	23	(3)
Nicolaus Copernicus	26	(2)
Martin Luther	28	(3)
Ambroise Pare	31	(3)
John Knox	34	(3)
Francis Bacon	37	(3)
Galileo Galilei	40	(4)
James I	44	(3)
Johannes Kepler	47	(3)
Squanto (also known as Tisquantum)	50	(2)
Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe)	52	(2)
Priscilla Mullins	54	(3)
John Milton	57	(2)
Blaise Pascal	59	(2)
Thomas Sydenham	61	(2)
Robert Boyle	63	(3)
John Ray	66	(2)
John Bunyan	68	(3)
Christiaan Huygens	71	(2)
Christopher Wren	73	(2)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek	75	(3)
Robert Hooke	78	(2)
Nicolaus Steno	80	(2)
Nehemiah Grew	82	(2)
Isaac Newton	84	(3)
John Flamsteed	87	(2)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	89	(3)
Edmund Halley	92	(2)
William Whiston	94	(2)
Isaac Watts	96	(3)
Stephen Hales	99	(2)
John Bartram	101	(2)
Jonathan Edwards	103	(3)
Carolus Linnaeus	106	(2)
Leonhard Euler	108	(2)
Charles Wesley	110	(2)
John Newton	112	(3)
William Herschel	115	(3)
Caroline Lucretia Herschel	118	(3)
John Dalton	121	(2)
Georges Cuvier	123	(2)
Luke Howard	125	(2)
Charles Bell	127	(2)
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)	129	(3)
Humphry Davy	132	(2)
Francis Scott Key	134	(2)
Peter Mark Roget	136	(3)
William Buckland	139	(2)
William Prout	141	(2)
Michael Faraday	143	(4)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse	147	(3)
Charles Babbage	150	(3)
Joseph Henry	153	(3)
Sojourner Truth	156	(3)
Matthew Fontaine Maury	159	(3)
Louis Agassiz	162	(3)
William Gladstone	165	(3)
Henry Rawlinson	168	(2)
James Simpson	170	(2)
David Livingstone	172	(4)
James Dwight Dana	176	(2)
James Prescott Joule	178	(2)
George Gabriel Stokes	180	(2)
Francis (Fanny) Jane Crosby	182	(3)
John William Dawson	185	(2)
Florence Nightingale	187	(3)
Rudolf Virchow	190	(2)
Louis Pasteur	192	(4)
Jean Henri Fabre	196	(2)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)	198	(3)
Bernhard Riemann	201	(2)
Lewis Wallace	203	(3)
Joseph Lister	206	(3)
William S. Pitts	209	(2)
James Clerk Maxwell	211	(3)
Dwight L. Moody	214	(3)
Philip P. Bliss	217	(4)
John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)	221	(3)
William McKinley	224	(3)
Archibald H. Sayce	227	(2)
John Ambrose Fleming	229	(2)
Charles M. Sheldon	231	(3)
William (Billy) Sunday	234	(2)
George Washington Carver	236	(2)
Robert A. Millikan	238	(3)
Oswald Chambers	241	(2)
William Foxwell Albright	243	(2)
Corrie ten Boom	245	(3)
Arthur Holly Compton	248	(3)
Eric Liddell	251	(3)
Gladys Aylward	254	(3)
Albert E. Brumley	257	(1)
Wernher von Braun	258	(4)
Dale Evans	262	(3)
James B. Irwin	265	(2)
Edwin Eugene ``Buzz'' Aldrin Jr.	267	(4)
Joni Eareckson Tada	271	(2)
Alphabetical Index	273	(3)
About the author	276