Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1835 |
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... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
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... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
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... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
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... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
... duke of Tuscany , who employed him both in public works and in negotiation , gave him the title of his first mathematician . In 1669 , he was chosen to fill a chair in the royal academy of sciences of Paris , which honor induced him to ...
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... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
... duke of Hesse - Darm- stadt , and remained in Darmstadt until his death , in 1814. He invented a new instrument , called orchestrion , in which the tone was determined in quite a new way , by the increase and diminution of the wind ...
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