Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; 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 Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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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 Orleans , who made him his master of the ceremonies . In 1634 , he was admitted into the French academy , and was subsequently sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that ...
... duke of Orleans , who made him his master of the ceremonies . In 1634 , he was admitted into the French academy , and was subsequently sent on a mission to Spain , where he composed some verses in such pure and natural Spanish , that ...
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... duke of Orleans , being delighted with the Edi- pus , he was allowed to return . His father himself was so much pleased with the rep- resentation of this play , that he embraced his son with tears in his eyes , and from this time left ...
... duke of Orleans , being delighted with the Edi- pus , he was allowed to return . His father himself was so much pleased with the rep- resentation of this play , that he embraced his son with tears in his eyes , and from this time left ...
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... duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar , and laid the foundation of Austria's pow- er . The severe loss which ...
... duke Charles . It decided the fate of Austria , on the same field on which Ro- dolph of Hapsburg ( q . v . ) , in 1278 , had been victorious over the proud Ottocar , and laid the foundation of Austria's pow- er . The severe loss which ...
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