Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Lea & Blanchard, 1849 |
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... France ( Divinatio in Aristæum , 1701 ) . He died in 1703 , in the eighty - first or eighty - second year of his age . Fontenelle speaks warmly of the integrity and simplicity of manners of Viviani , who composed several mathe- matical ...
... France ( Divinatio in Aristæum , 1701 ) . He died in 1703 , in the eighty - first or eighty - second year of his age . Fontenelle speaks warmly of the integrity and simplicity of manners of Viviani , who composed several mathe- matical ...
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... France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ ...
... France , Holland , Sweden , Eng- land , Spain , and ( as Gerber says ) even in Africa and Greece . In 1786 , he was ap- pointed chapel - master to the king of Swe- den . In 1790 , he was in London , where his performance on the organ ...
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... France ( those of Vive- rais ) , the uppermost portion , often forty feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this there is a foundation of regular and ver- tical ...
... France ( those of Vive- rais ) , the uppermost portion , often forty feet or more in thickness , is an amor- phous mass passing downwards into lava , irregularly prismatic ; and under this there is a foundation of regular and ver- tical ...
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... France , à cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
... France , à cele- brated French writer , was born at Craon , in Brittany , in 1755. Inspired , at an early age , with a desire to visit foreign countries in search of knowledge , he no sooner became master of a small patri- monial estate ...
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... France , Germany , England and Holland , on which occasion he was treated with great respect by Hal- ler , Joseph II and Voltaire . On his re- turn to Italy , he introduced the cultiva- tion of the potato into Lombardy . In 1794 , he ...
... France , Germany , England and Holland , on which occasion he was treated with great respect by Hal- ler , Joseph II and Voltaire . On his re- turn to Italy , he introduced the cultiva- tion of the potato into Lombardy . In 1794 , he ...
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