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Miller, Philip
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...editions of his Gardeners Dictionary from 1731 to 1768. As Richard Pulteney stated in...Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , replaced in 1731 by the one-volume folio Gardeners Dictionary...is his Gardeners Dictionary (London, 1731: 2nd ed., 1733; 3rd ed., 1737...
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Connecticut
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...of funding before it was complete. In 1731, it all began again, this time with a...line was acceptable where it matched the 1731 line, about which there was still uncertainty...legislatures ratified the 1860 (based on the 1731) border, and in 1881, the United States...
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Greenwood, Isaac
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Changes of the Material World (Boston, 1731) and three papers which appeared in the...Meteors, ” 35 (1710 – 1731), 390 – 402; “ A...Properties of Damps, ” 36 (1731 – 1732.), 184 –...
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Fouchy, Jean-Paul Grandjean De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...a supernumerary assistant astronomer in 1731, he succeeded to regular membership in...Mercury. A few were more general: in 1731, a proposal for giving astronomical tables...aux tables astronomiques ” (1731), 433 – 442; “ Sur...
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Vienna, treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Vienna, treaty of, 1731. By the second treaty of Vienna of March 1731, Britain guaranteed Maria Theresa's succession to the Habsburg dominions under the pragmatic sanction, while the Emperor Charles VI agreed to wind up the Ostend Company...
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Galeazzi, Domenico Gusmano
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Galeazzi made his observations in 1725 and published them in 1731. The existence of intestinal glands had already been claimed...Scientiarum et Artium Instituto atque Academia , 1 , pt. 2 (1731), 127 – 130; “ De calculis in cystifellea...
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Pitot, Henri
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...La th é orie de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux (Paris, 1731), dealt with a subject of much contemporary interest (books...La th é orie de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux (Paris, 1731), Pitot published (virtually all in the Histoire et m...
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Kent, William
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...illustrations, sculpture (notably the Isaac Newton Monument (1731), carved by Rysbrack , and the Shakespeare Monument (1740...Scheemakers , both in Westminster Abbey), and a state barge (1731–2, Nat. Maritime Mus., London) for Frederick...
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Bouguer, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of observing the altitudes of stars at sea (1729), and on the observation at sea of the magnetic declination (1731). In 1731 Bouguer was made an associate geometrician of the Acad é mie Royale, and in 1735 he became a full Academician...
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Hadley, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...about to set up in London as a maker of Gregorian reflectors. In 1731 Thomas Godfrey, a young American glazier, made a reflecting...New Instrument for Taking Angles, ” ibid. , 37 (1731) 147 – 157. Hadley ’ s own account of the...
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