"I believe the clear and simple narrative of an artist's life may often convey useful information, hidden under a word or fact of no apparent importance, but which tallies exactly with the humour or the need of some particular moment."
People in Christian History
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His mother was religiously called a Dunkard, and his father a Baptized Quaker. They decided to simply call themselves Christians. An autobiography by their son, well know farmer and preacher, written in a pretty humorous fashion. 
A book about an ordinary man who simply did his part. Thomas Platter was a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. For those who just like to read autobiographies of people, or would like to peer into the life of a 16th century school teacher. 
St. Ignatius is known for establishing the Society of Jesus, a society of counter-reformation. This book is a good way to look into the soul of the person on the opposite side of the Protestant Reformation. At our point in time nothing could be changed by condemning one side or the other. We could only look back at what happened.
An autobiography of an English mathematician and astronomer. His achievements included work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics, and Astronomer Royal. 
Imagine Methuselah, the guy who lived for 969 years, wrote a book. What would he write? Immerse yourself into the world of dinosaur races and stone tablet writing, a world kind of different form ours in some respects, yet very similar in others. Now, this is a fun read!
An autobiography of Madame Guyon, a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, A Short and Easy Method of Prayer. 
A biography of Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, written by Benjamin Franklin. 
A huge book on the life of William Booth by one of his colleagues. The book relates his life story from childhood to death, as well as the legacy of the Salvation Army he founded. 
A book published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1920, about Archimedes and his input into the development of science. Chapters include: Greek Geometry to Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes, Geometry in Archimedes, The Sandreckoner, Mechanics, and Hydrostatics. 