For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge that sense experience can have.

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

Note that unlike Hypatia he did not study ' mathematics, philosophy and astronomy ', thus he and his followers came into conflict with the ancient University of Alexandria which pursued all forms of knowledge including science and human anatomy, politics and history according to the model inaugurated by Alexander the Great, the founder of Alexandria.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.

In 1911, help arrived from renowned Russian musicologist and critic Alexander Ossovsky, who wrote a supportive letter to music publisher Boris P. Jurgenson, thus a contract was offered to the composer.

Seeing that her grandson's outrageous behavior could mean the loss of power, Julia Maesa persuaded Elagabalus to accept his cousin Alexander Severus as Caesar ( and thus the nominal Emperor to be ).

Charles Willson Peale | Peale portrait of Robert MorrisRobert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington, but Morris declined this office ; thus the first Secretary of the Treasury was Alexander Hamilton, who was appointed at Morris's suggestion.

In the former Royal Family of Saxony Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen adopted and designated as his heir his nephew Alexander de Afif, thus bypassing his agnatic cousin ’ s morganatic son, Ruediger von Sachsen, and his three sons.

Alexander later went on to conquer Asia as far as the Indus and the Oxus thus, for Callisthenes, fulfilling the prophecy.

Eusebius of Caesarea, however, mentions the age of 75, and thus the year 356 BC, making Seleucus the same age as Alexander the Great.

Frederick's father was the third son of Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, and Frederick was thus the nephew of the long-reigning duke Charles Eugene ()).

Authors such as Alexander Nekrich, John Dunlop and Moshe Gammer, based on census data from the period estimate a death toll of about 170, 000-200, 000 among Chechens alone, thus ranging from over a third of the total Chechen population that was deported to nearly half being killed in those 4 years ( rates for other groups for those four years hover around 20 %).

Nothing is known of his early life, but by his first birthday his only brother, Alexander, who was also older, had died, thus making James the heir apparent and Duke of Rothesay.

Alexander, however, his brother, slew Donald, and ascended the throne ; being thus the avenger as well as the successor of his brother ...".

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (;, Moscow –, Moscow ) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.

Rankin House, former home of Miramichi lumber baron Alexander Rankin at Douglastown ( IR Walker 1983 ) Although subsistence farming constituted one part of the new settlement's economy, the thin, acid soils of the Miramichi were not conducive to agriculture ; thus, the lumber industry and Atlantic salmon fishery were the mainstays.

By focusing on the impacts on human life, we can identify patterns that are independent from changing technology, and thus find " timeless quality " ( Alexander ).

Basil thus attempted to do justice to the doctrinal definitions of Nicea while at the same time distinguishing the Nicene position from modalism, which had been Arius's original charge against Pope Alexander in the Nicene controversy.

If Heracles was Alexander ’ s illegitimate child, then it also raises the pointed question as to why he, as Alexander ’ s only living son at the time of his death, was not immediately drawn into the succession disputes, and why he was passed over in favour of Philip Arrhidaeus-himself illegitimate-who was only a son of Alexander ’ s father Philip, and thus a more distant claimant than Heracles.

* Alexander MacKenzie ( 1764 – 1820 ) – Scottish-Canadian explorer who in 1789, looking for the Northwest Passage, followed the river now named after him to the Arctic Ocean and then in 1793 crossed the Rockies and reached the Pacific in 1793, thus beating Lewis and Clark by 12 years.

With the Tophane Act, Sultan Abdul Hamid II appointed the Prince of Bulgaria ( without mentioning the name of the incumbent prince Alexander of Bulgaria ) as Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia, thus retaining the formal distinction between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia and preserving the letter of the Berlin Treaty.

Under Diaghilev's guidance, Prokofiev chose his subject from a collection of folktales by the ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev ; the story, concerning a buffoon and a series of confidence tricks, had been previously suggested to Diaghilev by Igor Stravinsky as a possible subject for a ballet, and Diaghilev and his choreographer Léonide Massine helped Prokofiev to shape this into a ballet scenario.

Eisenstein was thence able to ingratiate himself with Stalin for ' one more chance ', and he chose, from two offerings, the assignment of a biopic of Alexander Nevsky, with music composed by Sergei Prokofiev.

In Summer 2010, St Paul's chose two new works by the British artist Mark Alexander to be hung either side of the nave.

During the Reformation, the people of Oudenaarde chose Protestantism and allied themselves with Ghent against Charles V. In 1582, after a prolonged siege by Margaret's son, Alexander Farnese, the city finally gave in, causing most merchants, workers, and even nobles to flee.

It was therefore the second son of Constantine, Prince Alexander, who Venizelos and the Entente chose to become the new monarch.

( Scorsese and DiCaprio chose to do The Aviator first, making way for Oliver Stone to produce his version of Alexander.

Alexander personally chose colors for the restaurant to help customers feel " warm and comfortable ", and Rockets president George Postolos said that the Rockets looked " for a relationship with the people that attend events in our venue ".

Initially, Alexander chose what was apparently unfavorable ground.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons author Alexander Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.

Adolf Hitler chose not to install a civilian government ( such as he had done in the Netherlands ) but instead installed a government headed by Alexander von Falkenhausen of the Wehrmacht.

Edward Wollstonecraft built a cottage, the ' Crow's Nest ' and, according to his business partner Alexander Berry, chose the name " on account of its elevated and commanding position ".

From there, he chose to return to Vienna in order to rejoin the Russian army, believing that he could best serve the interests of the new king and of France by attaching himself to the headquarters of Czar Alexander.

The opposition caucus to which he belonged initially chose William Alexander Macdonald as its leader.

The palace revived for a short time in 1856, when Alexander II chose Ostankino as his temporary residence during his coronation.

Alexander Korda offered to send him to RADA, but Gilbert chose to study direction instead, notably as an assistant on Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ).

To control the Brazilian Navy they chose the experienced Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane, British by birth, who received the title of " First Admiral ".

Later in the same year, the 5th Party Congress ( held in Soviet exile, at Gorikovo ), chose him among the new Central Committee members — at the moment when Alexander Stefanski rose to the position of general secretary.

The Bulgarian Assembly chose Prince Alexander Battenberg as their ruler and continued to press for the reunification of their country.

The name was chosen by F. Bidschof, an assistant at the Vienna Observatory, at Charlois's request ; Bidschof chose to name it after Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great, and at first used the spelling Roxana.

Rather than executing Alexander the Barber, the Emperor chose to employ his talents in the government's own service.

Alexander the Great chose to spend his winters and met his wife Roxanna in the area in 328-327 BC.

Because his elder surviving brother chose Ærø as his seat, Alexander received Sønderborg upon their father's death and was in practice its second duke.