Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his " second conversion ", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

Following Foster's departure, Bronski Beat began work on their next album, Out and About.

Following the work on expected utility theory of Ramsey and von Neumann, decision-theorists have accounted for rational behavior using a probability distribution for the agent.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

Following the Age of Discovery, through missionary work and colonization, Christianity spread to the Americas, Australasia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world.

Following work on the second entry in the Resident Evil series, Capcom began work on a Resident Evil game for the new PlayStation 2.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

Following a long legal battle, it was not until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at the stadium was secured and renovation work resumed.

Following the second Bonus Army march on Washington D. C. a modification of the CCC program through Executive Order 6129 on 11 May now included work opportunities for veterans.

Following his doctorate in mathematics, he returned to Berlin to work as the assistant to Karl Weierstrass.

Following pioneering work by Winograd ( 1978 ), a tight lower bound is known for the number of real multiplications required by an FFT.

Following his retirement, Hayek spent a year as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued work on Law, Legislation and Liberty, teaching a graduate seminar by the same name and another on the philosophy of social science.

Following the announcement of Kildall's death, Bill Gates commented that he was " one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution " and " a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work.

" Following this and other scathing reviews of Pierre by critics, publishers became wary of Melville's work.

Following Babbage, although unaware of his earlier work, was Percy Ludgate, an accountant from Dublin, Ireland.

Following the work of Robert Bly in the Mythopoetic men's movement, John Rowan proposes the Horned God as a " Wild Man " be used as a fantasy image or ' sub-personality ' helpful to men in humanistic psychology, and escaping from ' narrow societal images of masculinity encompassing deference to women and paraphillia.

Following the work of Weierstrass, it eventually became common to base calculus on limits instead of infinitesimal quantities.

Following the war, von Braun and other leading German scientists were relocated to the United States to work directly for the U. S. Army through Operation Paperclip, developing the IRBMs, ICBMs, and launchers.

Following the publication of Mysterium and with the blessing of the Graz school inspectors, Kepler began an ambitious program to extend and elaborate his work.

Following his graduation, Mullis became a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical School, going on to complete two years of postdoctoral work in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

" Following this in 1844, work was commenced once again, replacing the remains of the 1812 era fort with a massive new Third System masonry fortification known as Fort Montgomery.

Following the " Daily Double ," Matthews, Durham, Cey, Moreland and Davis gave the Cubs an order with no gaps to pitch around.

Following this, an astronomical conference held in Paris in 1950 recommended " that in all cases where the mean solar second is unsatisfactory as a unit of time by reason of its variability, the unit adopted should be the sidereal year at 1900. 0, that the time reckoned in this unit be designated ephemeris time ", and gave Clemence's formula ( see Definition of ephemeris time ( 1952 )) for translating mean solar time to ephemeris time.

Following the Edict of Coucy, which gave a limited six-month period for heretics to reconcile with the Catholic faith, Calvin decided that there was no future for him in France.

Following the example of Sarah, who gave her handmaid to Abraham after years of infertility, Rachel gave Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, in marriage so that Rachel could raise children through her.

Following this triumph the Maimonides family, hoping to increase their wealth, gave their savings to the youngest son David, a merchant.

Following criticisms of the statue, Al-Fayed said " If some stupid fans don't understand and appreciate such a gift this guy gave to the world they can go to hell.

Following Raft's departure, the studio gave Bogart the role of Roy Earl in the 1941 film High Sierra, which helped establish him as one of the studio's top stars ; following High Sierra, Bogart was also given a role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931 failure, The Maltese Falcon.

Following the earthquake, Joseph I gave his Prime Minister even more power, and Sebastião de Melo became a powerful, progressive dictator.

Following her husband's temporary fall from power, Elizabeth had sought sanctuary in Westminster Abbey, where she gave birth to a son, Edward ( later Edward V of England ).

Following further meetings with Freud in 1909 at Clark University, Massachusetts, where Freud gave a series of lectures on psychoanalysis, and in Holland the following year, Jones set about forging strong working relationships with the nascent American psychoanalytic movement, giving some 20 papers or addresses to American professional societies at venues ranging from Boston, to Washington and Chicago.

Following his wife's death, Adolph von Holst moved with his sons to 1, Vittoria Walk, Cheltenham, and eventually married Mary Thorley Stone in 1885: she gave birth to two further sons, Matthias Ralph and Evelyn Thorley.

Following the emergence of the circumpolar current in the mid-Oligocene era ( some 15 MYA ), the Australian climate became increasingly arid, giving rise to a diverse group of arid-specialised organisms, just as the wet tropical and seasonally wet areas gave rise to their own uniquely adapted species.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII gave him a grant of the manors of Redgrave, Botesdale, Gislingham, and Gorhambury.

Following the death of Pope John I at the hands of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, the papal voters gave in to the king's demands and chose Cardinal Felix as Pope.

Following a contract dispute with MGM, Garbo signed a new contract with the studio in 1932 which gave her more control over her films and co-stars.

Following this terrifying incident, Mary gave one of her gunners at Haddington, Andro Straitoun, a reward of a month's wages, £ 4.

Following a timeout with seven seconds to play, Mourning gave the ball to Mashburn, thinking that Mashburn would make the shot.

Following the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the island was added to the domain of the Gattilusi of Lesbos, but following the fall of the Despotate of the Morea in 1460, Sultan Mehmed II gave it as a domain to the last Despot, Demetrios Palaiologos.

Following Persian and Macedonian rule, the Artaxiad dynasty from 190 BC gave rise to the Kingdom of Armenia which rose to the peak of its influence under Tigranes II before falling under Roman rule.

Following this, she gave birth to a child every seven days and soon there were too many people, so women were then forced to have just one child every year.

Following the war the steamboat gave way to the railroad.

Following a long-standing objection, the Lorca family also gave their permission.

Following the Panic of 1893 and the bankruptcy of the town site owner, Creston remained dormant until a bumper wheat crop in 1897 gave a boost to the regional economy, bringing thousands of new settlers to the region.