Emote: Using Emotions to Make Your Message Memorable

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 16th-Century Dutch People, Pope Adrian Vi, Union of Utrecht, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Sebald de Weert, Council of Troubles, Steven Van Der Hagen, Pacification of Ghent, Willem Janszoon, Compromise of Nobles, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Jacob Van Heemskerk, Arumer Zwarte Hoop, Jacob Willekens, Pieter Van Der Does, All Saints' Flood, Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, Guelderian Wars, Moy Lambert, Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Treaty of Speyer, Union of Delft, St. Felix's Flood. Excerpt: Jacob van HeemskerkJacob van Heemskerk (Amsterdam 13 March 1567 - 25 April 1607 Bay of Gibraltar ) was a Dutch explorer and later admiral commanding the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar .Arctic exploration Van Heemskerk's early fame arose from an attempts to discover an Arctic passage from Europe to China . Two vessels sailed from Amsterdam on the 10th May 1596, under the command of van Heemskerck and Jan Rijp . Willem Barentsz accompanied Heemskerck as pilot, and Gerrit de Veer , the historian of the voyage, was on board as mate.The masses of ice in the straits leading to the Kara Sea , and the impenetrable nature of the pack near Novaya Zemlya , had suggested the advisability of avoiding the land and, by keeping a northerly course, of seeking a passage in the open sea. They sailed northwards, and on the 9th of June discovered Bear Island in the Barents Sea . Continuing on the same course they sighted a mountainous snow-covered land in about 80 N. lat., soon afterwards being stopped by the polar pack ice. This important discovery was named Spitsbergen (now known as Svalbard ), and was believed (incorrectly) to be a part of Greenland .Arriving at Bear Island again on the 1st of July, Rijp parted company, while Heemskerck and Barents proceeded eastward, intending to pass round the northe...