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Harris, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...consonance of science and orthodox religion. In 1697 he became a scientific controversialist...and to the Natural History of the Earth (1697). During the period 1698-1704 Harris...Natural History of the Earth (London, 1697); A New Short Treatise of Algebra (London...
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Magnol, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the botanical garden of Montpellier. In 1697 Magnol was named director of the botanical...garden, he cultivated rare plants. In 1697 he had published a catalog of this garden...Hortus regius Monspeliensis (Montpellier, 1697); and the posthumously published Novus...
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Cod Fisheries
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...the fisheries. In treaties from that of St. Germain (1632) to Ryswick (1697), the French fisheries benefited. British colonists were particularly bitter in 1697 when England returned Acadia to France. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) awarded...
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Somers, John, 1st Baron Somers
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...x2010;general (1689), attorney‐general (1692), lord keeper (1693), lord chancellor (1697), and a peer (1697). A leading Junto Whig, he was one of the few English politicians in whom William III closely confided, but...
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Ryswick, treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Ryswick, treaty of, 1697. In July 1697 the treaty brought to an end the Nine Years War , in which Louis XIV's France faced a grand coalition of England, the emperor, the Dutch, and Spain. Louis agreed to return most of his territorial acquisitions...
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Fontana, Carlo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...and was to succeed the master as architect of St Peter's in 1697. Fontana was a prolific architect, and his fame was based on...published books on St Peter's (1694), the Baptismal Chapel (1697), and other subjects. As the leading architect in Rome towards...
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Cestoni, Giacinto
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...chiefly through Redi ’ s letters. When Redi died in 1697, Cestoni began to write weekly letters to Antonio Vallisnieri...contained in the correspondence seem to have been made prior to 1697, however. A real friendship developed between the two men...
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Du Hamel, Jean-Baptiste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...his fame primarily to the high office that he held from 1666 to 1697 in the first great French institution. His successor Fontenelle...for as long as possible and by passing it on to Fontenelle in 1697, du Hamel certainly assisted in preserving the Academy, at...
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Trail
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
...trail of bear ’ s foot, myrtles green, and ivy pale, 1697; of tangled eglantine, 1861; of foliage, 1869; of golden...1454; hurrying trails of black clouds, 1872; of light, 1697; of lightning, 1770; long trails of chanting priests, 1856...
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Tessin, Nicodemus, the Younger, Count
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...French and Roman Baroque , especially with the garden-front. In 1697 fire consumed the old Royal Castle in Stockholm, and Tessin...against Denmark, Poland, and Russia under King Charles XII (1697–1718), and the Palace was not completed until 1753...
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