He first appeared in a 17th-century broadside ballad, and unlike many of the characters thus associated, managed to adhere to the legend.

Family legend traced the Garsins ' lineage to the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

The legend became more popular after it appeared in a 17th-century pamphlet of four leaves, Kurtze Beschreibung und Erzählung von einem Juden mit Namen Ahasverus ( Short description and tale of a Jew with the name Ahasuerus ).

It added to an increasingly full calendar of Protestant celebrations that contributed to the national and religious life of 17th-century England, and has evolved into the Bonfire Night of today.

It has a large church dating from the 15th century, an impressive City Hall ( built as such ) from the 16th century, several large 17th-century palaces, a 17th-century Protestant church built in what was then a modern style, and many important 18th-century buildings.

The cycloid has been called " The Helen of Geometers " as it caused frequent quarrels among 17th-century mathematicians.

The word " locust " has, at times, been employed controversially in English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles ; such ambiguous renderings prompted the 17th-century polymath Thomas Browne to include in the Fifth Book of his Pseudodoxia Epidemica an essay entitled Of the Picture of a Grasshopper, it begins:

Roehampton Village has retained something of its rustic Georgian charm, best exemplified by the King's Head Inn, at the foot of Roehampton High Street and the Montague Arms, Medfield Street, both 17th-century in origin.

Reference by 17th-century chroniclers has been claimed, but in the following all published accounts are 18th-century or later.

To the south of the Entrance Hall is the Library, and to the east is Wyatt's Dining Room, which has a stucco ceiling and a carved overmantel both in a late 17th-century style, as well as a frieze.

The south side has a strong Dutch influence in its 17th-century gables.

Over the years, Evelyn ’ s Diary has been over-shadowed by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life.

The Prado has numerous religious paintings from the 17th-century Madrid school, including works by Fray Juan Ricci, Pereda, Francisco de Herrera el Mozo and Claudio Coello, as well as some magnificent portraits by Carreño de Miranda.

Her work reveals the clear influence of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, as well as 17th-century Dutch masters, whose work has been far more highly valued, but what made Vallayer-Coster ’ s style stand out against the other still life painters was her unique way of coalescing representational illusionism with decorative compositional structures.

The Houston Grand Opera has announced that a new opera by Floyd will be premiered in the coming seasons, Kynaston, after the 17th-century actor, Edward Kynaston.

* The convent of San Domenico, now a school, has a Renaissance cloister with 17th-century frescoes.

Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".

The Museum has the most important holdings in the world on the history of Britain at sea comprising more than two million items, including maritime art ( both British and 17th-century Dutch ), cartography, manuscripts including official public records, ship models and plans, scientific and navigational instruments, instruments for time-keeping and astronomy ( based at the Observatory ).

It has a 17th-century fountain.

Ickford has a 17th-century public house, the Rising Sun.

Based on analysis of the traditional colors and designs of English merchant ships illustrated in Dutch and English paintings, Mayflower II has the brown hull and the dark-red strapwork ornamentation of those 17th-century merchant ships.

St Oswald's church lies close to the river a little North of the village, and the road up the dale crosses the river past Bridge End where Charles Kingsley stayed, and Old Cotes, built in 1650, whose gabled porch has a 3-light window somewhat characteristic of late 17th-century houses in this area of the dales.

More recent scholarship, focusing on seditious speech in the 17th-century colonies ( when there was no press ), has shown that from 1607 to 1700 the colonists ' freedom of speech expanded dramatically, laying a foundation for the political dissent that flowered among the Revolutionary generation.

It has a noteworthy cloister, a church with 17th-century canvasses and a 14th-century wooden statue portraying the Madonna with Child.

The 17th-century Spanish Fig Springs mission site has been identified in the park.

The 17th-century Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens discovered and proved these properties of the cycloid while searching for more accurate pendulum clock designs to be used in navigation.

Among these are many rare 17th-century manuscripts and an original edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan given as a personal gift to the College: Hobbes prepared this work while at Magdalen Hall.

The 17th-century double room design enabled greater symmetry between facades, while allowing the house to be compact and under the one roof.

The eastern stream supplied power to Lolham and Maxey mills, while the western stream did the same for West Deeping mill and Molecey's mill, which still retains its 17th-century undershot waterwheel, modified in the 19th century to Poncelet's improved design, and the only surviving waterwheel of its type in Lincolnshire.

The 17th-century authority David HaLevi Segal suggested that the reason was to distinguish Jews from their non-Jewish counterparts, especially while at prayer.

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda related that a sailor from the Bay of Biscay called the Viscayno or Biscayno had lived on the lower east coast of Florida for a while after being shipwrecked, and a 17th-century map shows a Cayo de Biscainhos, the probable origin of Key Biscayne.

Edward Pace's 1909 article on quietism indicated that, while in the strictest sense quietism is a 17th-century doctrine proposed by Miguel de Molinos, the term is also used more broadly to cover both Indian religions and what Edward Pace called " the vagaries of Hesychasm ", thus betraying the same prejudices as Fortescue with regard to hesychasm and, again in the same period, Siméon Vailhé described some aspects of the teaching of Palamas as " monstrous errors ", " heresies " and " a resurrection of polytheism ", and called the hesychast method for arriving at perfect contemplation " no more than a crude form of auto-suggestion "

Some miles north of Sempach is the quaint village of Beromünster ( 973 inhabitants in 1900 ), with a collegiate church founded in the l0th century and dating, in parts, from the 11th and 12th centuries ( fine 17th-century choir stalls and altar frontals ), the chapter of secular canons now consisting of invalided priests of the canton of Lucerne: it was in Beromünster that the first dated book was printed ( 1470 ) in Switzerland, by care of the canons, while thence came Gering who introduced printing into France.

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

The concept was also an important aspect of the more radical 17th-century republican tradition of Spinoza, from whom Rousseau differed in important respects, but not in his insistence on the importance of equality.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

New Amsterdam () was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as capital city of New Netherland.

In 16th-and 17th-century Wales, an expansion in population as well as taxation policy led to a move of people into the Welsh countryside, where they squatted on common land.

In England, Plotinus was the cardinal influence on the 17th-century school of the Cambridge Platonists, and on numerous writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to W. B. Yeats and Kathleen Raine.

Due to the islands ' isolation, for many years Bermuda remained an outpost of 17th-century British civilization, with an economy based on the use of the islands ' Bermuda cedar ( Juniperus bermudiana ) trees for shipbuilding, and Bermudians ' control of the Turks Islands, and their salt trade.

A 17th-century Italian map showing a large " Kingdom of Barantola or Boutan " bordering on Nepal and Tibet, as well as, surprisingly, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Xia | Kingdom of Tanguts

New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America.

For his hero he had drawn on French 17th-century history.

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.

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.

The Swedish colonization of the Americas included a 17th-century colony on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th century.

17th-century Thaler coin from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel with the traditional woodwose design on coins from the mints in the Harz Mountains

The reason Black slaves did not quickly come to outnumber Whites was that Bermuda's 17th-century agricultural industry continued to rely on indentured servants, mostly from England, until 1684, thanks to it remaining a company colony.

It is regarded as a source of information on 17th-century music, especially French music and musicians, to rival even the works of Pietro Cerone.

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.

Geoffrey Keating, in his 17th-century History of Ireland, says that during the winter the fianna were quartered and fed by the nobility, during which time they would keep order on their behalf, but during the summer, from Beltaine to Samhain, they were obliged to live by hunting for food and for pelts to sell.

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

His interpretations rather rely on the book Ogygia by the 17th-century bard Roderick O ' Flaherty

Running southwards, along the eastern side of the quad, is a 17th-century building, with oriel windows tucked away on its southern end.