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* Bernhardus Varenius ( 1622 – 1650 ), Wrote his important work " General Geography " ( 1650 ), first overview of the geography, the foundation of modern geography.
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The Geographia Generalis by Bernhardus Varenius and Gerardus Mercator's world map are prime examples of the new breed of scientific geography.
Bernhardus Varenius ( Bernhard Varen ) ( 1622, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony – 1650 ) was a German geographer.
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Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg ( 1640-1642 ), and at Königsberg ( 1643-1645 ) and Leiden ( 1645-1649 ) universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in 1649.
* Margret Schuchard ( ed ), Bernhard Varenius ( 1622-1650 ) ( Leiden, Brill, 2007 ), xxiv, 346 pp. ( Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 159 ).
Varenius and work
Varenius, with the materials at his command, dealt with the subject of geography in a truly philosophic spirit ; and his work long held its position as the best treatise in existence on scientific and comparative geography.
Varenius and geography
But the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship for Willem Blaeu and other geographers, attracted Varenius to geography.
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* 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France ( d. 1698 )
Mustafa I Deli ( 1591 – January 20, 1639 ) (), son of Mehmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.
Brought to power by a palace conspiracy in 1623, he succeeded his uncle Mustafa I ( 1617 – 18, 1622 – 23 ).
* 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
* 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
Sultan Osman II or Othman II ( commonly known as Genç Osman – meaning Osman the Young – in Turkish ) ( Ottoman Turkish عثمان ثانى ‘ O < u > s </ u > mān-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( November 3, 1604 – May 20, 1622 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death on 20 May 1622.
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Its main period of use was, like the treble cornett, about 1550 to 1650, although it gained favor in England only after the beginning of the 17th century ; in 1622 the celebrated Norwich Waits possessed at least two.
King Philip's War joined the Powhatan wars of 1610 – 14, 1622 – 32 and 1644 – 46 in Virginia, the Pequot War of 1637 in Connecticut, the Dutch-Indian war of 1643 along the Hudson River and the Iroquois Beaver Wars of 1650 in a list of ongoing uprisings and conflicts between various Native American tribes and the French, Dutch, and English colonial settlements of Canada, New York, and New England.
German and English scientists, Bernhard Varen ( 1622 – 1650 ) and John Ray ( 1627 – 1705 ) classified human populations into categories according to stature, shape, food habits, and skin color, along with any other distinguishing characteristics.
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His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.
In 1622, Khurram ( Shah Jahan ), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, murdered the blinded Khusrau in a conspiracy to eliminate all possible contenders to the throne.
The term started to gain currency in 1622, when a new branch of the Catholic Church was created, called the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ( Congregation for Propagating the Faith ), or informally simply Propaganda.
* Ivan Cherkassky of Russia ( 1580 ?- 1642 ), boyar and head of the Treasury, Streletsky Prikaz and Aptekarsky Prikaz, in office 1621 – 1622 ( as Treasurer ), 1622 – 23 ( as head of the Streletsky Prikaz and Aptekarsky Prikaz )
* Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar of Spain ( 1578 – 1630 ), nobleman and Viceroy of New Spain and Peru, in office 1612 – 1621 ( New Spain ), 1622 – 1629 ( Peru )
In Le Bourgeois gentilhomme ( 1670 ), the 17th-century French playwright Molière ( 1622 – 73 ) catalogued the social-class essence of the bourgeoisie.
There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.
In 1622, King Louis XIII besieged the city which surrendered after a rude two months siege ( Siege of Montpellier ), afterwards building the Citadel of Montpellier to secure it.
The Lyab-i Hauz ensemble, surrounding the pond on three sides, consists of the Kukeldash Madrasah ( 1568 – 1569 ), the largest in the city ( on the north side of the pond ), and of two religious edifices built by Nadir Divan-Beghi: a khanaka ( 1620 ), or lodging-house for itinerant Sufis, and a madrasah ( 1622 ) that stand on the west and east sides of the pond respectively.
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