17th-century engraving of Scylla ( princess ) | Scylla falling in love with Minos

Lagâri Hasan Çelebis rocket flight depicted in a 17th-century engraving

The siege of Syracuse in a 17th-century engraving.

17th-century engraving of Pope John XXII

The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th-century engraving

Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.

A 17th-century engraving of the robe used by a marquis during this creation ceremony.

17th-century engraving of Glastonbury

17th-century engraving of Nisos's daughter Scylla ( princess ) | Scylla falling in love with his enemy Minos.

The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th-century engraving

Peru offers a branch of cinchona to Science ( from a 17th-century engraving ): Cinchona, the source of Peruvian bark, is an early remedy against malaria.

17th-century engraving of the parterre s as first laid out

Niépes's print captures the image of a 17th-century Flemish engraving of a man leading a horse.

His meeting with Rowena became a popular subject in 17th-century engraving and painting, for example William Hamilton's 1793 work Vortigern and Rowena.

17th-century engraving.

A 17th-century Dutch engraving representing the Battle of Azov ( 1696 )

Xenophanes, 17th-century engraving

Scheme of the battle: 17th-century engraving after Palladio.

17th-century engraving of Buffalmacco by Wenceslas Hollar

A 17th-century engraving of Sir Richard Haddock.

André Le Nôtre | Le Nôtre's central axis of the Tuileries ' parterre s in a late 17th-century engraving

17th-century Dutch engraving

Its precise date is unknown, but Matthäus Merian's 17th-century engraving shows that it existed by 1646.

Taking of Azov, a 17th-century Dutch engraving

In Changes in the Land ( 1983 ), William Cronon analyzed and documented 17th-century English colonists ' reports of increased seasonal flooding in New England during the period when new settlers initially cleared the forests for agriculture.

Gallery of famous 17th-century Puritan theologians: Thomas Gouge, William Bridge, Thomas Manton, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, Stephen Charnock, William Bates ( Puritan ) | William Bates, John Owen ( theologian ) | John Owen, John Howe ( Puritan ) | John Howe, Richard Baxter.

For instance, in The Tempest, Shakespeare borrowed from a manuscript by William Strachey that detailed an actual shipwreck of the Virginia-bound 17th-century English sailing vessel Sea Venture in 1609 on the islands of Bermuda.

The 17th-century publisher Humphrey Moseley once claimed to possess a manuscript of a play based on the Iphis and Ianthe story, by William Shakespeare.

He was one of several late 17th-century economic, social and political theorists with a medical education background ; contemporaries included Benjamin Worsley, Hugh Chamberlen, William Petty and John Locke.

The genre and forms of the work greatly varied, with one being a claim to have found plays of a 17th-century playwright " William Aynesworthe ", which ended up being his own works.

Later 17th-century folios of William Shakespeare's works can still fetch about the price of a small house but are more readily available and relatively obtainable, whereas almost all extant copies of the First Folio are owned by libraries, museums or universities and thus are unlikely to appear on the market.

Marocco ( c. 1586 – c. 1606 ), widely known as Bankes's Horse ( after his trainer William Bankes ), was the name of a late 16th-and early 17th-century English performing horse.

The many state rooms open to the public contain a collection of 17th-century royal Stuart furniture, perquisites from the 6th Earl's service as Lord Chamberlain to William III in the royal court, including three state beds, silver furniture ( comprising a pair of torcheres, mirror and dressing table, being rare survivors of this type ), outstanding tapestries and textiles and the original of the famous Knole Settee.

The 17th-century botanist and herbalist William Coles ( 1626 – 1662 ), author of The Art of Simpling and Adam in Eden, stated that walnuts were good for curing head ailments because in his opinion, " they Have the perfect Signatures of the Head ".

During William Lenox-Conyngham's tenure, the estate was drained and improved and a large well-appointed dining room was added to the rear of the house, complete with a 17th-century Italian chimneypiece salvaged from Frederick Augustus Hervey's ( the Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry ) Ballyscullion House near Bellaghy which was demolished in about 1825.

William Fulton Love, writer and bank agent in Beith, built Geilsland House and developed this small estate near Gateside in the 19th-century although the deeds go back to the 17th-century.

Attempts have been made to reconstruct the vocabulary of the language using sources such as word lists provided by Smith and by the 17th-century writer William Strachey.

Later 17th-century composers included Christopher Simpson, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Henry Purcell.

Contents of the room include a high longcase clock made about 1745 by William Stumbels of Totnes ; a large 17th-century Brussels tapestry with rustic farm-yard scenery after Teniers above the fireplace ; and a 1553 carved wooden over-mantel decorated with the Courtenay arms.

The interior houses the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments, one of which is often played to visitors during opening hours, and collections of paintings ( including the collection of Peter Barkworth, and loans of Sir William Nicholson paintings ), porcelain, 17th-century needlework pictures and Georgian furniture.

In astrology, essential dignity is the strength of a planet or point's zodiac position, judged only by its position by sign and degree, or its essence -- what the pre-eminent 17th-century astrologer William Lilly called " the strength, fortitude or debility of the Planets significators.

The influential 17th-century astrologer William Lilly states simply: " Planets in angles do more forcibly show their effects.

: Not to be confused with the 17th-century Whig politician, William Russell, Lord Russell.

William Graham, 7th Earl of Menteith, 1st Earl of Airth ( c. 1591 – 1661 ), was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman.