Welcome to 500px!
This temporary Starter account, Explorer, was
automatically created for you.
A Starter account can do almost everything a normal account can do such as Liking and Favoriting photos, but it will expire after a while.
To rename this account and keep it for yourself just enter your email address in the header dropdown above.
It's that easy.
Game of the Goose
49.5
- 6482 Views
- 544 Votes
- 244 Favorites
98.6
Highest Pulse
February 17, 2012
February 17, 2012
A little history
The first mention of the Game of the Goose comes from Francesco dei Medici, Grand Duke of Florence in Italy from 1574 to 1587. He sent a copy to King Philip II of Spain where it caused great excitement at the court, and the game spread rapidly to other parts of Europe.
Professor Murray reports in his book: "A History of Board Games other than Chess" (Oxford University Press, 1952) that it reached England by 1597, when John Wolfe entered "the newe and most pleasant game of the Goose" in the Stationers’ Register on June 16 (Arber, iii, 21).
In 1758 the Duchess of Norfolk planted a Game of Goose in hornbeam at Worksop, as mentioned by Horace Walpole (Letters, 1840, iii, 395). Such hedge designs were at the time popular among the European gentry, although instead of the Goose game’s spiral most were laid out as living Labyrinths, like the famous maze at Hampton Court.
The first mention of the Game of the Goose comes from Francesco dei Medici, Grand Duke of Florence in Italy from 1574 to 1587. He sent a copy to King Philip II of Spain where it caused great excitement at the court, and the game spread rapidly to other parts of Europe.
Professor Murray reports in his book: "A History of Board Games other than Chess" (Oxford University Press, 1952) that it reached England by 1597, when John Wolfe entered "the newe and most pleasant game of the Goose" in the Stationers’ Register on June 16 (Arber, iii, 21).
In 1758 the Duchess of Norfolk planted a Game of Goose in hornbeam at Worksop, as mentioned by Horace Walpole (Letters, 1840, iii, 395). Such hedge designs were at the time popular among the European gentry, although instead of the Goose game’s spiral most were laid out as living Labyrinths, like the famous maze at Hampton Court.
- Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Focal Length 24mm
- Shutter Speed 1/2500 sec
- Aperture f/4.5
- ISO 1600
- Category Uncategorized
- Uploaded Over 1 year ago
- Taken January 10th 2010
- Copyright Lars van de Goor
Login or sign up to comment.
...and very funny!
pls chk out my work
Like this picture ★☆★☆★
Friendly greetings from Greece ╰☆╮ George papaki ✩ @ ♪ ♫ *
Have a nice week end