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Abauzit and for
Among those who gave Newton corrections for the Second Edition were: Firmin Abauzit, Roger Cotes and David Gregory.

Abauzit and writings
A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 ( Oeuvres de feu M. Abauzit ), and another at London in 1773 ( Oeuvres diverses de M. Abauzit ).

Abauzit and Newton
Newton corrected in the second edition of his Principia an error pointed out by Abauzit, and, when sending him the Commercium Epistolicum, said, " You are well worthy to judge between Gottfried Leibniz and me.

Abauzit and other
One of Fatio's papers was sent to Le Sage by Abauzit in 1758, and other papers were acquired by Le Sage in 1766, 1770 and 1785.

Abauzit and .
Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.
Firmin Abauzit was born of Protestant parents at Uzès, in Languedoc.
Abauzit at an early age acquired great proficiency in languages, physics, and theology.
The reputation of Abauzit induced William III to request him to settle in England, but he did not accept the king's offer, preferring to return to Geneva.
Abauzit was a man of great learning and of wonderful versatility.
Whatever chanced to be discussed, it used to be said of Abauzit, as of Professor William Whewell of more modern times, that he seemed to have made it a subject of particular study.
Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric ; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.
* Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Abauzit, Firmin.
The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.
Later, though, it appears that Abauzit recanted this approach after a critical examination by his English translator, Dr. Twells.
** Firmin Abauzit, French scientist ( b. 1679 )
** Firmin Abauzit, French scientist ( d. 1767 )
Such was Louis Bourguet ( 1678 – 1743 ), who, besides his geological works, founded two periodicals which in different ways did much to stimulate the intellectual life of the Suisse Romande ; these were the Bibliothèque italique ( 1729 – 1734 ), which aimed at making more widely known the results of Italian research, and the Mercure suisse which, first issued in 1732, lasted till 1784, under different names ( rom 1738 onwards the literary section bore the name of Journée helvetique ), and secured contributions from most of the leading writers of the Suisse Romande of the day, such as Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ), Abraham Ruchat ( 1678 – 1750 ), and others.

is and also
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.
but there is also compassion.
also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.
But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.
Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

is and notable
It is notable that at this time he was writing with admiration of Cimabue's and Poussin's way of filling space.
The thing that is notable in all these discussions is the lack of ideological ardor.
One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.
Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.
Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.
Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.
Andy Warhol is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement.
Argon is notable in that its isotopic composition varies greatly between different locations in the solar system.
A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.
Most notable for this use is the extinct giant fennel, silphium.
April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools ' Day.
A notable example is Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote some 18 theological works which describe in detail the nature of the afterlife according to his claimed spiritual experiences, the most famous of which is Heaven and Hell.
In the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his abundant strength and courage, seen particularly in two fights with Hector.
The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.
Newfoundland English in Canada is a notable exception.
A notable exception is Players ' Joe Blade series.
Although Dürer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.
Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.
Ajmer is notable for its public schools formed in accordance with the precepts of English public schools, amongst which are Mayo College, founded by the British Raj in 1875 to educate the children of Rajputana's royalty and nobles.
A notable opioid for the purpose of relief of diarrhoea is loperamide which is only an agonist of the μ opioid receptors in the large intestine and does not have opioid affects in the central nervous system as it doesn't cross the blood – brain barrier in significant amounts.

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