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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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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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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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Buccaneers
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...contributed a key maritime function as they helped America fight the British. In 1697, the Treaty of Ryswick, which ended the War of the League of Augsburg (1689 – 1697), partly suppressed buccaneering. With the growth of the nation-state...
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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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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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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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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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Lagny, Thomas Fantet De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...on 11 December 1695. He stayed in Paris in 1696 and then, in 1697, through the Abb é Jean-Paul Bignon, obtained an...xE9; bre ou introduction aux math é matiques (Paris, 1697); Trignonm é trie fran ç aise ou reform...
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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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