Historian and author Lisa Jardine CBE, who "studied both Mathematics and English at university, was fluent in eight languages including Ancient Greek and Latin, and wrote on everything from Shakespeare and Francis Bacon to feminist theory and the history of science," died Sunday, the Telegraph reported. She was 71.
Jardine won the Cundill International Prize in History, was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded its prestigious medal for popularizing science. Her books include Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution; Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print; Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory; The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London; and The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun.