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Barba, Alvaro Alonso
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...earl of Sandwich (London, 1670,1674,1738,1739,1740). The complete English translation is by R...also appeared in German translation (Hamburg, 1676, 1739; Frankfurt, 1739; Vienna, 1749, 1767; Ephrata, 1763). The sparse...
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Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...and hydro-technics. In the summer of 1739 he traveled to Freiburg to study with Johann...the course of his foreign studies. In 1739 he composed an ode on the Russian capture...dissertations in physics (1738 – 1739), “ On the Transformation of...
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Great Awakening
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...itinerant Anglican preacher George Whitefield that occurred between 1739 and 1745. Evangelicals in Britain as well as America attended...excitement before Whitefield commenced his second American tour in 1739. Whitefield's unique contribution was to foment religious...
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Camus, Charles-Étienne-Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...pour é l é ver del ’ eau ” (1739), 157 – 188; “ Sur les meilleures proportions des pompes, et des parties qui les composent ” (1739), 297 – 332; “ Sur un probl è...
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Fontaine (Fontaine Des Bertins), Alexis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...canicien on 11 June 1733. Although he was promoted to geometer in 1739 and to pensionary geometer in 1742, Fontaine rarely participated...his work of 1764 Fontaine included a study of dynamics dated 1739 and based on a principle closely analogous to the one that d...
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Vernon, Edward
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...his seat in 1734. At the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1739, Vernon offered his services and was sent to the West Indies with the rank of vice‐admiral. On 21 November 1739 his forces stormed the fortress of Portobello in Panama...
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Langley, Batty
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Practical Geometry (1726), The Builder's Chest Book (1727 and 1739), New Principles of Gardening (1728), The Landed Gentleman...Langley (1724, 1726, 1728, 1729, 1729 a , 1734, 1736, 1738, 1739, 1742, 1745, 1747, 1756, 1970, 1970 a , 1971)
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Alfieri, Benedetto Innocente
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...turned-architect, he succeeded Juvarra as architect in Turin in 1739, completing the latter's Palazzo Reale. His main secular...excellent acoustics and sightlines), the Segretario di Stato (1739–67), the Piazza d'Erbe, and the Carceri Senatoriali...
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Liu Hui
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...They were subsequently included by K ’ ung Chi-han (1739 – 1787) in his Wei-po-hesieh ts ’ ung...later came into the possession of K ’ ung Chi-han (1739 – 1784) and then Chang Tun-jen (1754 –...
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Privat De Molières, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...xE9; s par les seules lois des mecaniques (1734 – 1739), Privet de Moli è res offered an emended Cartesian...des m é caniques , 4 vols. (Paris, 1734 – 1739); and Tranit é synth é tique des lignes du...
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