I have many ancestors who where either mathematicians, scientists or intellectual in general. Today we travel to 15th Century England with the first intellectual ancestor of LinkZelda (scientist) who is called 'Lincoln'.

Lincoln was sat upon his hay stack in Lord Baron's barn where he had be forced to work for a non-existent life potion. Lincoln knew it was impossible but got high pay so he had no complaints. Lincoln was about to finally come up with a great mathematical theory that would of allowed us to be heavily advanced in technology today (he was working on hypercalculus; an improved version of calculus before Newton had even published his Principia Mathematica.) before he was interrupted by a neanderthal guard.
"Durr, goo durr..."
"Okay guard, I'll be at the 'court'" in those days, this was a witch trial type thing. He was asked to prove that a man was a witch.

There was a stand with a noose on it. Designed for hanging animal carcasses up on. What? You thought it was for execution? Haha no. Next to it was a stake and next to that was a grill. The grill heated up the stake so that it caught on fire. The accused 'witch' was held in a cage. Lincoln sighed at how intellectually inferior these people were. He didn't even look like a witch.

"Now then, as we all know, witches are green, smelly and have pointed hats. He is not green but is smelly and does have a pointed hat." said the slightly intelligent guard.
"Hm... Not green you say?" asked Lincoln
"It's a cloaking spell."
"Well, witches float don't they?"
"Yes but unfortunately we don't have a body of water..."
"What floats?"
"Witches float sir."
"No, I mean what else floats?"
"Oh! This stake!"
"Right, so if he's heavier than the stake, he won't float!" said Lincoln excitedly.
"Genius! How will we weigh him against it though?"
"What if, we tie his neck on the noose, then attach the stake to the same rope and let go?"
"Genius! We'll do that tomorrow."

However, Lincoln's life went downhill after that. His hypercalculus books were destroyed, his witch test failed (the man broke the stake due to his heaviness) and he was fired. He did however have children. In fact, without him, you wouldn't be drinking tea. The next installment is about Zelda, an intellectual tea merchant.