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In 1611 he published, at Venice, a scientific work entitled: Tractatus de radiis visus et lucis in vitris, perspectivis et iride, in which, according to Isaac Newton, he was the first to develop the theory of the rainbow, by drawing attention to the fact that in each raindrop the light undergoes two refractions and an intermediate reflection.
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Other folios and quartos were subsequently published — including John Smethwick's Q3, Q4, and Q5 ( 1611 – 37 )— but these are regarded as derivatives of the first three editions.
Similarly, a " History of England ", whose fifth edition was published in 1775, writes merely that new translation of the Bible, viz., that now in Use, was begun in 1607, and published in 1611.
King James's Bible is used as the name for the 1611 translation ( on a par with the " Genevan Bible " or the " Rhemish Testament ") in Charles Butler's Horae Biblicae ( first published 1797 ).
* 1611 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
Between 1607 and 1611, de Boodt catalogued the Kunstkammer, and in 1609 he published Gemmarum et Lapidum, one of the finest mineralogical treatises of the 17th century.
Sunspots were first observed telescopically in late 1610 by the English astronomer Thomas Harriot and Frisian astronomers Johannes and David Fabricius, who published a description in June 1611.
Johannes published Maculis in Sole Observatis, et Apparente earum cum Sole Conversione Narratio (" Narration on Spots Observed on the Sun and their Apparent Rotation with the Sun ") in June 1611.
The Latin text was printed for the first time in Basel in 1549 by Nicholas Brylinger ; it was also published in the Gesta Dei per Francos by Jacques Bongars in 1611 and the Recueil des historiens des croisades ( RHC ) by Auguste-Arthur Beugnot and Auguste Le Prévost in 1844, and Bongars ' text was reprinted in the Patrologia Latina by Jacques Paul Migne in 1855.
Byrd's last collection of English songs was Psalms, Songs and Sonnets, published in 1611 ( when Byrd was over 70 ) and dedicated to Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, who later also received the dedication of Thomas Campion's First Book of Songs in 1615.
Leaving his deputy Sir Samuel Argall ( circa 1580 – circa 1626 ) in charge, Lord De La Warr returned to England and published a book about Virginia, The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De-La-Warre, of the Colonie, Planted in Virginia, in 1611.
John Rainolds, another fellow, and Corpus's seventh President, was involved in the inception and translation of the King James Bible, published in 1611.
* Complete text of the Book of Tobit, as published in the 1611 King James version *
After it was published in 1611, the King James Version soon took the Bishops ' Bible's place as the de facto standard of the Church of England.
The first published observation of the nebula was by the Jesuit mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat of Lucerne in his 1619 monograph on the comets ( describing observations of the nebula that may date back to 1611 ).
( Price borrowed from John Donne's unrelated The first Anniversary, published in 1611, and The second Anniversary, published in 1612, for some of his language and ideas.
His letters were collected and published in 1576, and went through several editions, the latest at Nuremberg in 1611 ; they were re-titled by William Elstob in 1703.
He contributed six pieces to the first printed collection of keyboard music in England, Parthenia ( to which he was by far the youngest of the three contributors ), published in about 1611.
The two plays on which his fame rests, The Revenger's Tragedy and The Atheist's Tragedy, were published respectively in 1607 and 1611.
The editio princeps, which was based on V, was published in 1611 by Johannes Meursius, who gave it the Latin title by which it is now universally known, and which translates as On Administering the Empire.
John Speed's map of " Bedford e ", from his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611
Englishman John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine published in 1611 provided gazetteers for counties throughout England, which included illustrative maps, short local histories, a list of administrative hundreds, an index of parishes, and the coordinates of longitude and latitude for county towns.
Bartholin the Elder published the first collected anatomical work in 1611.
Gesualdo published six books of madrigals during his lifetime, as well as some sacred music in madrigalian style ( for example the Tenebrae Responsories of 1611 ).
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With two exceptions, some words and phrases which had become archaic were modernized ; secondly, the readings for the Epistle and Gospel at the Holy Communion, which had been set out in full since 1549, were now set to the text of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible.
He was King of Sweden ( 1611 – 1632 ) and founder of the Swedish Empire ( or Stormaktstiden " the era of great power ") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden.
In an era characterized by almost endless warfare, he led his armies as king from 1611 ( at age 17 ) until his death in battle in 1632 while leading a charge — as Sweden rose from the status of a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government.
Upon his father's death in October 1611, a sixteen-year-old Gustavus inherited the throne ( declared of age and able to reign himself at seventeen as of 16 December ), as well as an ongoing succession of occasionally belligerent dynastic disputes with his Polish cousin.
In 1611, John Sigismund traveled from Köningsberg to Warsaw, where on 16 November 1611 he gave feudal homage to Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland ( the Duchy of Prussia was a Polish fief at the time ).
The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre.
The earliest account of a performance of the play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing it at the Globe Theatre.
In 1611, Musashi began practicing zazen at the Myōshin-ji temple, where he met Nagaoka Sado, vassal to Hosokawa Tadaoki ; Tadaoki was a powerful lord who had received the Kumamoto Domain in west-central Kyūshū after the Battle of Sekigahara.
* 1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
Benedetto Odescalchi was born at Como in 1611 ( either on 16 or 19 May ), the son of a Como nobleman, Livio Odescalchi, and Paola Castelli Giovanelli from Gandino.
On 18 June 1611 at Southwark he married Mary Machell of Hackney ( who had been a nurse to Prince Henry the son of James I ) and their children were christened at Aller over the following decade.
In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, West Java and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta ( later " Batavia " and then " Jakarta ").
From 1611 to 1617, the English established trading posts at Sukadana ( southwest Kalimantan ), Makassar, Jayakarta and Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in Sumatra which threatened Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade.
The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610 – 1611.
For example, Cotgrave's 1611 Dictionarie describes the Bayonet as ' a kind of small flat pocket dagger, furnished with knives ; or a great knife to hang at the girdle '.
Guido Reni's early ( 1611 ) Massacre of the Innocents, in an unusual vertical format, is at Bologna.
* Malcolm Rogers, William Dobson, 1611 – 46: The Royalists at War, National Portrait Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1983.
Four and a half years later Charles IX died at Nyköping, 30 October 1611 when he was succeeded by his seventeen year old son Gustavus the Great, who'd participated in the wars.
Often, the masquers who did not speak or sing were courtiers: King James I's queen consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently danced with her ladies in masques between 1603 and 1611, and Henry VIII and Charles I performed in the masques at their courts.
: The present hereditary Order of Baronets in England dates from 22 May 1611 when it was erected by James I who granted the first Letters Patent to 200 gentlemen of good birth with an income of at least £ 1000 a year.
A 1611 date is suggested by an apparent connection with Ben Jonson's Masque of Oberon, performed at Court 1 January 1611, in which appears a dance of ten or twelve satyrs ; The Winter's Tale includes a dance of twelve satyrs, and the servant announcing their entry says " one three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danc'd before the King.
The earliest recorded performance of the play was recorded by Simon Forman, the Elizabethan " figure caster " or astrologer, who noted in his journal on 11 May 1611 that he saw The Winter's Tale at the Globe playhouse.
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