After Spain kicked out the Muslim Moores after severall hundred years during the reign of Ferdinand and Izabella, Catholic Spain became one of the most powerful nations on earth. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
To investigate the anatomy of the eye and its ability to perceive color, he inserted a bodkin — a sharp instrument for making holes — between his eye and the bone, «as neare to ye backside of my eye as I could & pressing my eye with ye end of it... there appeared severall white darke & coloured circles.» (discovermagazine.com)
At the bringing in of the the accused severall fell into fits. (lawyerist.com)