These chapters are occupied with an account of the plague of 1630, largely based on Giuseppe Ripamonti's De peste quae fuit anno 1630 ( published in 1640 ).

But the 17th century still revered perfection, as shown by the appearance of that word in book titles: De perfecta poesi by the Polish poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski ( 1595 – 1640 ); Le peintre parfait ( 1767 by André Félibien ; and Idée de la perfection de la peinture ( 1662 ) by Fréart de Chambray.

* De Originibus Ecclesiasticis, first part, London, 1636 ; second part, London, 1640.

These works included De novis astris, et cometis libri sex ( 1626 ), Controversiae de cometarum quiete, loco boreali sine occasu, parallaxi Aristotelea, sede caelesti, et exacta theoria peripatetica ( 1626 ), Ad ingenuum lectorem scholium Camelo Bulla ( published as an appendix to his 1627 work De intellectu agente ), De regulari motu minimaque parallaxi cometarum coelestium disputationes ( 1640 ), and De Terra unico centro motus singularum caeli particularum disputationes ( also 1640 ).

In 1640, Liceti published Litheosphorus, sive De lapide Bononiensi lucem in se conceptam ab ambiente claro mox in tenebris mire conservante, a work which examined the so-called “ light-bearing stone of Bologna .” This stone was a type of barite originating in Mount Paderno near Bologna.

In 1640 and 1641, respectively, Liceti published two more general works on light and illumination, De luminis natura et efficentia libri tres and De lucidis in sublimi ingenuarum exercitationum liber.

Between 1640 and 1650, Liceti published a series of seven books in which he answered questions on a variety of topics posed through letters by some of the most famous intellectuals of the day: De quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1640 ), De secundo-quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1646 ), De tertio-quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1646 ), De motu sanguinis, origine nervorum, de quarto-quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa medico-philosophica ( 1647 ), De providentia, nimbiferi gripho, de quinto-quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1648 ), De sexto-quaesitis per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1648 ), and De septimo-quaesitis, creatione Filii Dei ad intra, theologice denuo controversa per epistolas a claris viris responsa ( 1650 ).

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

With the Spanish plan having failed, by 1640 the debt had reached 35 million scudi, consuming more than 80 percent of annual papal income in interest repayments.

With Martin Zeiler ( 1589-1661 ), a German geographer, and later ( circa 1640 ) with his own son, Matthäus Merian ( der Jüngere, i. e. " the Younger " or " Jr .") ( 1621-1687 ), he produced a series of Topographia.

With the Portuguese Restoration War ( 1640 ), the island regained its position as a commercial center, getting new contacts with Brazil, which was heavily colonized during this period.

With Montrose he signed the Cumbernauld Bond in August 1640, but took no active steps against the popular party till 1648, when he joined the Duke of Hamilton in his invasion of England, escaping from the rout at Preston.

With Thomas Welde and John Eliot he wrote the “ Bay Psalm Book ,” or, more accurately, The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre ( 1640 ), probably the first book printed in the English colonies.

With newly built ships, designed as ships of war and crewed by sailors and trained gunners, fighting experience was gained in the Franco-Spanish War and the Thirty Years ' War with notable victories at the Battle of Cádiz ( 1640 ) won by Frances First, Grand Admiral Armand de Maillé-Brézé son of Marshall Urbain de Maillé-Brézé.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

The monument was started in 1640, and mostly completed by 1644.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Barcelona had always been the stronghold of Catalan separatism and was the center of the Catalan Revolt ( 1640 – 52 ) against Philip IV of Spain.

In the Spanish army, in 1635, Pedro de la Puente organized in Innsbruck ( Austria ) a body of dragoons, and in 1640 one was created in Spain as a tercio of a thousand dragoons armed with the arqabus.

George William of Brandenburg () ( 13 November 1595 – 1 December, 1640 ), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave and elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death.

– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.

In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

His Whole Booke of Job Paraphrased, or made easy for any to understand ( 1640, quarto ), was written in a terse style which contrasts with the usual wordiness of the Puritan expositors and commentators.

A previous law ( the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 ) had been passed forty years earlier to overturn a ruling that the command of the King was a sufficient answer to a petition of habeas corpus.

1640 – 1710 ) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became hakam of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died.

The Bowhead whale was locally hunted to near extinction around 1640 ( approximately 1000 had been killed and processed on the island ), at which time Jan Mayen was abandoned and stayed uninhabited for two and a half centuries.

* Rebecca was born about 1640 and died between June 12, 1696 and October 5, 1722.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

The Long Parliament of England was established on 3 November 1640 to pass financial bills, following the Bishops ' Wars.

It sat from 1640 until 1648, when it was purged, by the New Model Army, of those who were not sympathetic to the Army's concerns.

The sole reason Charles I assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops ' Wars had bankrupted him.

Luanda was Portugal's bridgehead from 1627, except during the Dutch rule of Luanda, from 1640 to 1648, as Fort Aardenburgh.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

Murad IV Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi ‘) < span dir =" ltr ">( July 26 / 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

On his deathbed, Murad IV ordered the execution of his mentally disabled brother, Ibrahim I ( reigned 1640 – 48 ), which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line ; but the order was not carried out.

* 1640 ( Kanei 17 ): A Spanish ship from Macau brought a delegation of 61 people to Nagasaki.

However, the vitality of the community was severely disrupted in December 1640 when the town of Cambrils was the site of one of the episodes of the Guerra dels Segadors ( War of the Reapers ) that brought Catalonia into conflict with King Philip IV of Spain.

Toward 1640 many of the painters leaned toward the classical style that had been brought to the fore in Rome by the French expatriate Nicolas Poussin.

The progressive talk format moved to Green 1640 AM in Decatur, GA in April 2011 upon the WPBC's LMA with Reggie Gay's WZBN that brought about the format change to Contemporary Gospel / Holy Hip Hop.

In the meanwhile its merits must have been ascertained both in Lima and in various parts of Europe, as Count Chinchon and his physician Juan de Vega brought it back with them in 1640.