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Bridgewater Treatises
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Bridgewater Treatises. Eight treatises, published between 1833 and 1836, on various...manifested in the Creation’. F. H. Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (d. 1829), left £8,000 for the purpose.
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Cushman, Joseph Augustine
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Cushman, Joseph Augustine ( b . Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 31 January 1881...grew up in the small college town of Bridgewater, where his father sold and repaired...x2019; s early schooling was in Bridgewater, then at Harvard College, where cryptogamic...
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Kidd, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...scientists chosen to contribute to the Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and...from a bequest by the eighth Earl of Bridgewater, were intended to maintain the Paley...His most substantial work was the Bridgewater Treatise on The Physical Condition of...
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Ireland, John (Nicholson)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Bagatelle, vn., pf. (1911, arr. orch. by L. Bridgewater, 1916); pf. trio in E (1917); vc. sonata in G minor...Intrada (1904); Villanella (1904, arr. for orch. by L. Bridgewater 1941 and by R. Binge 1949); Menuetto-Impromptu (1904...
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Buckland, William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...diluvialism in favour of Agassiz's glacial theory which he was the first to introduce into British geology. Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise (1836) was not only an attempt to reconcile geology and natural theology but also an up-to-date manual of...
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Barry, Sir Charles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...greatest sumptuousness, and signals Barry's transition from the use of low relief to robust high relief, culminating in his Bridgewater House, Green Park, London (1846–51). At this time, he tended to experiment with Northern Renaissance architecture...
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Seeger, Charles (Louis)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Seeger, Charles (Louis) ( b Mexico City, 1886; d Bridgewater, Conn., 1979). Amer. musicologist, teacher, and composer. Cond. at Cologne Opera 1910–11. Chairman, mus...
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natural theology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...It became important in 18th-century England, being associated with the work of John Ray, William Paley, and many others. The 19th-century Bridgewater Treatises were the last major exposition of natural theology. See BUCKLAND .
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Andrews, George Leonard
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Andrews, George Leonard (1828–99) Union army officer, civil engineer, and educator, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Andrews led the Second Massachusetts regiment during the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862; after the battles...
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Evergood, Philip
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Evergood, Philip ( b New York, 26 Oct. 1901; d Bridgewater, Conn., 11 Mar. 1973). American painter. He was educated in England, at Eton and Cambridge (his mother came from a cultured...
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