Which writer translated and popularized the tale of newton sitting under the apple tree while contemplating the laws of gravity? which statement from montaigne's essay, “of cannibals” best reflects how his perspective differed from the common view of european society in his day? select all that apply.

William Stukeley was an antiquarian and proto-archeologist who wrote the first biography of Newton entitled" Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life". The two were born in Lincolnshire and talked, meeting regularly as they are both fellows of the Royal Society.

"Of Cannibals" was an essay written by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne and tackles the pompous belief of western culture superiority.

His indifference shows in :

•We ought rather to call those wild, whose natures we have changed by our artifice, and diverted from the common order.

•They are savages at the same rate that we say fruit are wild, which nature produces of herself and by her own ordinary progress.

•I am not sorry that we should here take notice of the barbarous horror of so cruel an action, but that, seeing so clearly into their faults, we should be so blind to our own.

absolutely it most certainly can.

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.