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  • musicians for James II. Between 1680 and 1687 he wrote his only stage composition ... In 1687 he became master of the choir of St Paul's Cathedral; ...
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  • works were A Collection of Miscellanies (1687) and An Account of Reason ... of A Collection of Miscellanies appeared in 1687, and was reprinted nine times ...
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  • In the spring of 1687, a Jesuit missionary from Italy named Father ... *Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores: founded on March 13, 1687 ...
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  • of rotifers in a letter of October 17, 1687 (Swart 1964). John Harris ... amp;type=pdf Alle de brieven. Deel 7: 1687-1688. Anthoni van Leewenhoek ...
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  • Portrait of Edmond Halley painted around 1687 by [[Thomas Murray (artist ... Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis (1687), which was published at Halley ...
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  • The Rev. Dr William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687 ... ey_william.shtml William Stukeley (1687 - 1765)] William_Stukeley|209381203| ...
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  • 1616 and 1636, and Aurangzeb's 1686-1687 campaign conquered Golkonda ... emperor Aurangzeb's army conquered Golkonda in 1687. ...
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  • As a result of the Crimean campaigns (1687 and 1688) and Azov campaigns ... which continued after he was deposed in 1687. His successor, Suleiman II ...
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  • |Mary||2 June 1685||8 February 1687 |- |Anne Sophia||12 May 1686||2 February 1687 |- |Stillborn Child||January ...
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  • (Hungary was an elective monarchy till 1687) and was sometimes used as ... * Joseph I, king of Hungary 1687 - 1711 * Charles III, king of Hungary ...
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  • of England, and The Hind and the Panther (1687) which celebrates his conversion ... *The Hind and the Panther, 1687 *Amphitryon, 1690 *Don Sebastian, 1690 ...
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  • Later (1687) in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Newton showed mathematically that if an elastic fluid consisting of particles ...
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  • In the Declaration of Indulgence (1687), also known as the Declaration ... "Declaration of Indulgence of King James II, April 4, 1687," ...
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  • which sustained considerable damage in a 1687 explosion]] The Venetians besieged the Acropolis in 1687, bombarding and severely damaging ...
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  • Sir William Petty (May 27, 1623 – December 16, 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving ...
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  • Henry More (October 12, 1614 – September 1, 1687) was perhaps the ... * Henry More (1614 - 1687) * John Smith (1618 - 1652) * Benjamin Whichcote ...
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  • mosque in the early 1460s. On September 28, 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump ... which sustained considerable damage in the 1687 explosion]] ...
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  • Orléans (1670), and the great soldier Condé (1687). ==Biography== ... which was condemned by Innocent XI in 1687. When Mme de Maintenon began ...
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  • second laws of motion, in Latin, from the original 1687 edition of [[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]].]] ...
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  • du nouveau système de M. Jurieu (paris, 1687), a condensed and decisive criticism of the theory of the "fundamental articles"; Réfutation ...
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  • known as the Principia), published on July 5, 1687, where Newton stated the three universal laws of motion that were not to be improved upon for more ...
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  • quot; did not exist. Isaac Newton's 1687 scientific treatise is known as Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (The Mathematical ...
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  • *The Emperor of the Moon (1687) Posthumously performed *The Widow Ranter (1689) *The Younger Brother (1696) ===Novels=== *The Fair Jilt ...
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  • in Paris. From 1671 until Lully's death in 1687, the ballet was directed by the dancing master Pierre Beauchamp, most noted for the codification ...
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  • Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), showed that if an object moves under the influence of his inverse square law of gravity, it would trace ...
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  • which secured a papal audience in January 1687. He also arranged a stupendous banquet for a thousand guests in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, complete ...
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  • Isaac Newton's law of Universal Gravitation (1687) was a good approximation of the general behaviour of gravity. In 1915, Albert Einstein completed ...
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  • contests, and taking an excursion in the autumn of 1687 to the countryside for tsukimi, or moon watching, and a longer trip in 1688 when he returned to ...
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  • comic almanacs include those published from 1687-1702 by John Tully of Saybrook, Connecticut. The most important early American almanacs were ...
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  • he published almost nothing about it until 1687 and did not give a full account ... as the Principia) was published on July 5, 1687,The remainder of the dates ...
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  • damage from two earthquakes in 1630 and 1687. A constant danger to the city's commerce was the presence of pirates and privateers in the ...
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  • as a counterweight to the Anglican Tories, so in 1687 James supported the policy of religious toleration and issued the Declaration of Indulgence ...
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  • to study theology at the University of Glasgow. From 1687 to 1690 he studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities. After receiving a Master of Arts degree ...
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  • as Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) and Henry More (1614-1687), and the Moral Sense Theorists such as the Earl of Shaftsbury (1671- 1713) and Francis Hutcheson ...
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  • French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) is generally considered the first musician to take on what would become the role of the modern ...
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  • for the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), who stabbed his foot with one while conducting a Te Deum for King Louis XIV's recovery ...
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  • Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics ...
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  • feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on August 20. In 1687, it was moved to September 2, where it would stay for 282 years until the revision of the Roman ...
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  • The Man in the Iron Mask was held captive from 1687 until he died in 1703. Under the French Revolution (1789–1799), the Île Sainte-Marguerite ...
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  • of Isaac Newton's Principia in 1687). The notion of pre-established harmony was the target of substantial criticism (the Pietists, for instance ...
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  • with Mary's husband as early as 1687. After James took the step of forcing Anglican clergymen to read the Declaration of Indulgence—the ...
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  • was declining. The Venetians attacked Athens in 1687. A shot fired during the bombardment of the Acropolis caused a powder magazine in the Parthenon ...
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  • In the reign of Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun (1687-1709), the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach created the magnificently harmonious ...
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  • authors give the date of the battle variously as 1687, Arjan Dass Malik ... "A fierce battle was fought at Nadaun in 1687." ...
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  • were published by Newton in Principia in 1687. In 1912, Karl Fritiof Sundman developed a converging infinite series that solves the 3-body problem ...
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  • Life and works of Confucius, by Prospero Intorcetta, 1687.]] life and works of Confucius into Latin in 1687.John Parker, Windows into ...
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  • Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge ... Stars, and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge ...
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  • In 1687 the French and Algonquin began driving the Iroquois back to New York. As they retreated, the Potawatomi began moving south along Lake ...
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  • On December 31, 1687 a band of Huguenots set sail from France to the Dutch East India Company post at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Individual ...
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  • Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). His greatest claim to prominence came from a systematic application of algebra to geometry, which synthesized ...
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