Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

Despite the common belief that Edison did not use mathematics, analysis of his notebooks reveal that he was an astute user of mathematical analysis conducted by his assistants such as Francis Robbins Upton, for example, determining the critical parameters of his electric lighting system including lamp resistance by an analysis of Ohm's Law, Joule's Law and economics.

Despite his reliance on homage to bygone cinema, Bogdanovich solidified his status as one of a new breed of A-list directors that included Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, with whom he formed The Directors Company.

Despite being a state prison, the Bastille retained the other traditional functions of a royal castle, and was used to accommodate visiting dignitaries, hosting some lavish entertainments given by Louis XI and Francis I.

Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age ( eventually reaching, making her almost a giant in the sixteenth century ) and fluent in speech, while Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry II commented that " from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time ".

Despite efforts by jockey Dick Francis, Devon Loch was unable to complete the race, leaving E. S. B.

Despite the Puritans ' rousing opposition in the country ( which her zealously anti-catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves of ), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François.

Despite this, he refused all invitations to travel internationally to promote his work, writing to Francis Darby: " I would rather be a poor man England than a rich man abroad.

Despite Henri according his youngest brother Francis the title of Duke of Anjou, the prince and his followers continued to create disorder at court through their involvement in the Dutch Revolt.

Despite several severe interruptions in her career, Francis is still active as a recording and performing artist ( as of November 2011 ).

Despite these failures, Francis was hired to record the vocals for Tuesday Weld's " singing " scenes in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock, and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree.

Despite her declining success on the Hot 100, Francis remained a top concert draw, and her singles – now following a more mature style – were charting on the top quarter of Billboard's Adult Contemporary ( AC ) Charts and sometimes even reached Billboard's Country Charts.

Despite having a good point guard in Bibby, they selected Steve Francis.

Despite the book's widespread acceptance by journalists and the general public, scholars such as Francis Paul Prucha criticized it for lacking sources for much of the material, except for direct quotations ; he said that content was selected to present a particular point of view, rather than to be balanced ; and that the narrative of government-Indian relations suffered from not being placed within the perspective of what else was occurring within the government and the country at the time.

Despite the success of Four Jills, the end of the war found Francis virtually unemployable in Hollywood.

Despite being retired, Gordon often finds himself drawn to a series of life-and-death circumstances, such as the Joker sending him flowers during Last Laugh, or being contacted by the temporarily-reformed Harvey Dent to stop Batman from killing the Joker, to being kidnapped by Francis Sullivan, grandson of one of Gotham's notorious serial killers, during the Made of Wood storyline.

Despite the Jacobite connections of his family, Francis Taaffe was confirmed as 3rd Earl of Carlingford by King William III, and the attainder and forfeiture of the estates incurred by his elder brother was repealed.

Despite his family having no money to support his continued education, he read law under John Scott and Francis Brooks in Warrenton, Virginia, and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1823.

Despite this success, Ball was tempted away in July 1995 to become Manchester City's manager under the ownership of former England team-mate Francis Lee.

Despite his status as captain, Hogg was dropped from the starting lineup early in the 2010 – 11 season to make way for new signing Francis Dickoh, who made his debut in a 1 – 1 draw against Inverness CT. Hibs manager John Hughes praised the performance of Dickoh, who offered a greater physical presence.

Despite Francis Rattenbury's outstanding career as an architect, he was buried in an unmarked grave, in a cemetery close to his home in Bournemouth.

Despite Wigan's success in finishing 10th in the Premiership and reaching the League Cup final, it was a disappointing spell professionally for Francis, who did not feature as much as he would have liked to.

Despite being partially deaf from an early age, Francis did very well and, by the mid-1790s, had the full confidence of the British Parliament.

Despite poor rural communication, local police arrived quickly ; one of them, Francis Kimanzi Mbaya, was a man whom Timmons had accused of corruption.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite the severity of this boundary event, there was significant variability in the rate of extinction between and within different clades.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

Despite Davies ' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice ( and both times culpable for the planet's destruction ).

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

Despite some initial expressions of enthusiasm, Hoxha and Shehu mistrusted Nikita Khrushchev's programs of " peaceful coexistence " and " different roads to socialism " because they appeared to pose the threat that Yugoslavia might again try to take control of Albania.

Despite the name implying a design evolving from the K5, it is in fact a totally different design that was created by the NexGen team, including chief processor architect Greg Favor, and adapted after the AMD purchase.

Despite their different backgrounds they shared a common interest in experiment and invention, and their activities would show Darwin's theoretical understanding and Boulton's practical experience to be complementary.

Despite their apparent similarity, keyboard instruments of different types require different techniques.

Despite different labeling, the function remains the same — to provide additional power for amplification of the signal.

Despite these restrictions, many mixed tag matches do feature some physical interaction between participants of different genders.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Despite the name, these pro-capitalist policies are radically different from the many non-capitalist free-market socialist theories that have existed throughout history.

Despite the lopsided loss in the Super Bowl, Beathard, who traded for or drafted the bulk of the Chargers roster, and who hired coach Ross, was named the NFL's smartest man by Sports Illustrated, and became the only general manager to lead three different teams to the Super Bowl ( Chargers, Dolphins, Redskins ).

Despite having a single Chinese spelling, 太極拳, there are two different spellings in English usage, one derived from the Wade-Giles and the other from the Pinyin transliteration, with the West mostly being familiar with the Wade-Giles, t ' ai chi ch ' uan.

Despite this similarity of their names, typhoid fever and typhus are distinct diseases and are caused by different species of bacteria.

Despite the decline, wargaming continues to survive in different forms.

Despite using old systems of classification that incorrectly separated plantains as a different species solely because of their culinary use, they are now known to belong to the same species as dessert bananas.

Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

Despite several references listing different combinations of Picti, Scotti, Hiberni, Attecotti and Saxons together as later Roman Britain's archetypal enemies, it is worth noting that ' Scotti ' and ' Hiberni ' are never listed together, perhaps suggesting that they were then, as they were later, alternative names for the Irish or confederations of the Irish.

Despite the fact that they appear to work at different companies, they are friends who frequently phone each other and hang out together.