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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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Munday, Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Munday, Richard ( c. 1685–1739). American architect. He designed Colony House (1739–41— an accomplished and pretty work with a Baroque centrepiece) and Trinity Church (1725–6—a timber...
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Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...6); Castor et Pollux (1737, rev. 1754); † Les Fêtes d'Hébé (1739); Dardanus (1739, rev. 1744 and 1760); † Les Fêtes de Polymnie (1745); Le Temple de la gloire (1745...
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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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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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Jenkins' Ear, War of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
JENKINS' EAR, WAR OF JENKINS' EAR, WAR OF (1739 – 1743), was a struggle between England and Spain...Edward Vernon captured Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1739 but met with disastrous failure in 1741 at Cartagena, Colombia...
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Logan, James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1731-1739, and acting governor of the colony in 1736-1737. He negotiated...Gronovius saw that the essay was published in full at Leiden in 1739 as Experimenta et meletemata de plantarum. Others had noted...
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Dardanus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Dardanus. Opera in prologue and 5 acts by Rameau to lib. by de la Bruère. Comp. 1739, rev. 1744 and 1760. Prod. Paris 1739, 2nd version 1744, 3rd version 1760; London (concert) 1973. Opera on same subject by Sacchini (1784).
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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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