Since Pappus gives somewhat full particulars of its propositions, this text has also seen efforts to restore it, not only by P. Fermat ( Oeuvres, i., 1891, pp. 3 – 51 ) and F. Schooten ( Leiden, 1656 ) but also, most successfully of all, by R. Simson ( Glasgow, 1749 ).

* 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.

In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.

Built in 1656, this is the oldest mosque in Maldives.

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Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus, which in turn is a contraction of the phrase Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo, mentioned in Thomas Ady's 1656 book A candle in the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft.

" However, there is an opposing viewpoint which holds that it was named for the book Oceana, written by James Harrington in 1656.

At the center of the debate is language in Myles Standish's will, drafted in Plymouth Colony in 1656, regarding his rights of inheritance.

Chief Asharoken sold the land that is now Asharoken, Eatons Neck, and Northport to European settlers in 1656.

According to Thomas Blount in his 1656 dictionary " Glossographia ", the origin of the word " Revels " is the French word " reveiller ", to wake from sleep.

A recent biography of Joseph Hall is Bishop Joseph Hall: 1574 – 1656: A biographical and critical study by Frank Livingstone Huntley, D. S. Brewer Ltd, Cambridge, 1979.

A performance of his The Siege of Rhodes at Rutland House in 1656 is considered to be the first performance of an English opera, and also included England's first known professional actress, Mrs Coleman.

The reverse depicts a crowned shield bearing the Commonwealth arms, with the inscription -- Peace is sought through war, and the date 1656, while there is also an edge inscription -- A protector of the letters, the letters are a garland and a safeguard to the coinage.

Las Meninas ( Spanish for The Maids of Honour ) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Las Meninas, c. 1656, oil on canvas, by Diego Velázquez, is an outstanding example of " genre work ".

The first recorded town meeting was held in 1656 in the home of settler John Osgood in what is now the town of North Andover.

It is a capital example of Girardon's work, and the theatrical pomp of its style is typical of the funeral sculpture of the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV ; but amongst other important specimens yet remaining may also be cited the Tomb of Louvois ( St Eustache ), that of Bignon, the king's librarian, executed in 1656 ( St Nicolas du Chardonneret ), and decorative sculptures in the Galerie d ' Apollon and Chambre du roi in the Louvre.

* Ann Hibbins, who historically was executed for witchcraft in Boston in 1656, is depicted in The Scarlet Letter as a witch who tries to tempt Prynne to the practice of witchcraft.

The earliest recoded usage by the Oxford English Dictionary is 1656.

Though the substance of the disagreements is unclear, by 1656 Fox and Nayler were hardly on speaking terms.

On 23 September 1656, Fox visited Nayler in his prison at Exeter ; when the prisoner refused to kiss his hand, Fox pushed his foot toward him, " It is my foot.

Kateri Tekakwitha ( the name " Kateri " is derived from the French Catherine, her baptismal name ) was born around 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon near present-day Auriesville, New York.

To the west of the town is Brook Manor house, a grade II * listed property, built in 1656 for Richard Cabell, Lord of the Manor of Brook.

In 1656, Runcorn was described as being " nothing but a fair parish church, a parsonage and a few scattered tenements ".

The Ascension Crake ( Mundia elpenor ) which disappeared some time before 1700 but was briefly mentioned and described by traveller and hobby naturalist Peter Mundy in 1656 and Aphanocrex podarces, the Saint Helena Swamphen which disappeared before 1600 and has never been encountered by scientists were once considered congeners of A. rogersi.

It is named for the English physician and anatomist Thomas Wharton ( 1614 – 1673 ) who first described it in his publication Adenographia, or " The Description of the Glands of the Entire Body ", first published in 1656.

After a cultural and architectonic flourishing during the 17th century, under the aegis of the Counter-Reformation, Chieti was again shattered by plague in 1656.

A fire devastated the city in 1656.

Tequila was first produced in the 16th century near the location of the city of Tequila, which was not officially established until 1656.

The city, however, faced numerous invasions, including the siege by the Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648, the leader of the uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1648 – 1654 ) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state, and during the Swedish Deluge in 1656.

The court of King Narai ( 1656 – 88 ) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris.

In 1656 a plague struck the city.

In March 1656. after capturing the city of Jarosław, Ascheberg was promoted Colonel.

In 1656, due to the need for space as the city grew, the government decided to relocate Yoshiwara, and plans were made to move the district to its present location north of Asakusa on the outskirts of the city.

As a result the walls of the city were built in 1656 during the reign of Philip IV of Spain.

King Narai ( 1656 CE to 1688 CE ) not only held court in Ayutthaya but also from his palace in the nearby city of Lopburi, from where he ruled 8-9 months in the year.

* Battle of Warsaw ( 1656 ), battle outside the city on July 18-July 20, 1656, during The Deluge, following which Warsaw is captured by Swedes for the second time

The French army laid siege to the city in 1656 ( Vauban participated in this siege without a command ).

Thorpe Hall at Longthorpe in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire is a Grade I listed building, built by Peter Mills between 1653 and 1656, for the Lord Chief Justice, Oliver St John.

In 1656, a plague broke out in the city, killing a thousand inhabitants.

The city was occupied by a Swedish army in 1655 during the Second Northern War, replaced by Brandenburgians in 1656 ( the Swedes burned the suburbs when they left ).

He designed many other churches in the city, among them the Chiesa dell ' Ospedaletto and Santa Maria degli Scalzi built between 1656 and 1680, although the façade of the latter church was designed by Giuseppe Sardi.

In 1656, a plague nearly wiped out the city.

* Rappahannock County ( 1656 – 1692 ) divided into Essex County and Richmond County ( not to be confused with the current capital city of the same name located elsewhere in Virginia ) ( also not to be confused with the current Rappahannock County, founded in 1833, located in the northwestern portion of the state )

The city was founded in 1656.

He devoted most of his life to researches among the archives of his native city, and in 1656 even obtained a licence to print his Paris ancien et moderne ; but on his death ( 21 March 1676 ) the whole work was still in manusript.

Later outbreaks of bubonic plague in Italy include the city of Florence in 1630 – 33 and the areas surrounding Naples, Rome and Genoa in 1656 – 57.

The exact location of the village is debated ; F. Douglas Reville's " The History of the County of Brant ", published in 1920, reports that historians of his era located Kandoucho near the present-day city of Brantford, Ontario, and although verified by Sanson's map of 1656, modern archaeological scholarship rejects the accuracy of this document.

He was given the command of Warsaw which he defended against the Polish army under John II Casimir of Poland until the city was given up 21 June 1656.