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In 1646, Browne published the encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenets, and commonly Presumed Truths, whose title refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and " vulgar errors.
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The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.
Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.
Such beliefs were examined wittily and at length in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
* 1646 — Sir Thomas Browne first uses the word electricity is in his work Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: " How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange ".
The English word electricity was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Gilbert's 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning " like amber ".
" Veterinarian " was first used in print by Thomas Browne in 1646.
The first usage of the English word electricity is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
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His major work, his History of the Life and Reign of Richard III, would not be published until 1646.
A collection of cantatas published in 1646 describes him as musician to Cardinal Antonio Barberini, and Giacomo Antonio Perti in 1688 speaks of him along with Carissimi and Cesti as " the three greatest lights of our profession.
His story of his travel and hardship found its way into the history books when he published his adventures in 1646 under the title Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz.
* A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying ( 1646 ), a famous plea for toleration published decades before John Locke's Letters Concerning Toleration.
The only " systematic " work he published was A Defence of Infant Baptism, against John Tombes ( London, 1646 ).
Falkland wrote a Discourse of Infallibility, published in 1646 ( Thomason Tracts, E 361 ), reprinted in 1650, in 1651 ( E 634 ) edited by Triplet with replies, and in 1660 with the addition of two discourses on episcopacy by Falkland.
His first poem, Echo, or the Unfortunate Lovers ( of which no copy is known, but which is probably the same as Narcissus of 1646 ), was published in 1618.
Besides these he published during the period of dramatic eclipse four small volumes of poems and plays, in 1646, 1653, 1655, and 1659.
A collection of Suckling's poems was first published in 1646 as Fragmenta aurea.
When his journal was published in 1646, it was accompanied by a copy of Roelant Savery's " Crocker Art Gallery sketch ".
Vasile Lupu introduced the first codified, written law in Moldavia ( 1646, published in Iaşi ).
The work was first published in Italian at Florence in 1645 and 1646 in three folio volumes.
A brief description of the art by Athanasius Kircher, published in Ars Magna Lucis et Umbræ in Rome in 1646, rapidly spread throughout Europe.
In 1646 he published most of them in the book Novae coelestium terrestriumq rerum observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae.
In 1646 he published one of his many writings, entitled Simplicity's Defence Against Seven Headed Policy, detailing the wrongs that were put upon the Shawomet settlers.
The Gangraena ( 1646 ) of Thomas Edwards included Goodwin among the subjects of attack ; in the second and third parts, published in the same year, Edwards was provoked into savage onslaughts by Goodwin's anonymous reply Cretensis.
His works consist of odes, epigrams, songs and letters, and were published in 1646 by Mann le Roy de Gomberville.
He became widely known because of the journal of his adventures that was published in 1646 under the title Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz.
Also notable was the work of some Continental Rationalist philosophers, especially Baruch Spinoza's ( 1632 – 1677 ) On the Improvement of the Understanding ( 1662 ) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's ( 1646 – 1716 ) New Essays on Human Understanding ( completed 1705, published 1765 ).
In Ostrog, Segal wrote a commentary on Joseph Caro's Shulchan Aruch ( Yoreh De ' ah ), which he published in Lublin in 1646.
Niccolò Zucchi published many books on science, including two works on the philosophy of machines ( analyses of mechanics ) in 1646 and 1649, and Optica philosophica in 1652.
His last years were devoted to the preparation of The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland which was published in an abridged form in 1646.
He was imprisoned again by Parliament in 1646 and, in 1647, while he was still a prisoner, his tract Twelve Arguments Drawn Out of Scripture was published.
Gangraena is a book by Thomas Edwards, published in 1646.
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His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.
It also includes many of the sources of his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica which went through no less than six editions ( 1646 to 1672 ); and established Browne's name as one of the leading intellects of 17th century Europe.
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This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.
:* Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 72 )
The popularity of Pseudodoxia in its day is confirmed by the fact that it went through no fewer than six editions ; the first edition appearing upon the eve of the English Civil War, during the reign of Charles I in 1646.
The word first appears in English in the mid-17th century ( used in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 ), where it is an adaptation of Late Latin rhabdomantia, from a presumed ( unrecorded ) ancient Greek * rhabdomanteia, from the ancient Greek ῥαβδος ( rhabdos ) a rod.
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The scene of the Persian ambassador's entry into Paris, 7 February 1715, was described by François Pidou de Saint-Olon ( 1646 – 1720 ), a nobleman who was delegated the diplomatic position of liaison officer to the Persian delegation.
In the Battle of Torrington ( 1646 ), the Parliamentarians, led by Sir Thomas Fairfax, swept into the town and defeated Lord Hopton's forces.
He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1643 to 1646 and Lord Chancellor from 1658 to 1667 and a close political adviser to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.
From about 1642, Russians began hearing of a ‘ Pogycha River ’ to the east which flowed into the Arctic and was rich in sable fur, walrus ivory and silver ore. An attempt to reach it in 1646 failed.
He stated that, while cataloging documents at the ancient Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba in the summer of 1958, he discovered the text of the letter handwritten into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius ' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch.
He was taken into custody by the Parliamentary forces, and died in Covent Garden, on 18 December 1646.
Later, Dudley incorporated his notes into six volumes of Dell ' Arcano del Mare ( The Secret of the Sea ), self-published in 1646 – 1647.
He stated that, while cataloging documents at the ancient monastery of Mar Saba in the summer 1958, he discovered the text of the letter handwritten into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius ' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch.
Surrendering in 1646, the castle and town walls eventually fell into ruin.
With the Union of Uzhhorod in 1646, 63 Ruthenian clergy were received into the Catholic Church, and in 1664 a union reached at Mukachevo brought additional communities into the Catholic communion.
A ceasefire lasted from 1643 until 1646, when the Confederates again came into conflict with them.
Dublin also fell into Parliamentarian hands in 1646, when the Royalists surrendered it to an English Parliamentarian expeditionary force after the city was threatened by Confederate armies.
A division of the Royalist Regiment of the Earl Rivers consisting of 200 foot, 25 horse and 4 guns under the command of John Boys, ' a professional soldier from Kent ', were put into Donnington Castle and held the castle from 1643 until 1 April 1646.
The English Civil War can be divided into three: the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 1646 ), the Second English Civil War ( 1648 – 1649 ), and the Third English Civil War ( 1649 – 1651 ).
The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis can be dated by colophon ( scribal identification ) to the reign of Hammurabi ’ s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa ( 1646 – 1626 BCE ), but various Old Babylonian fragments exist ; it continued to be copied into the first millennium BCE.
In 1646, Monro and Stewart joined forces, making a major foray into Confederate held territory.
The letter, according to Smith, had been bound into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius ' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch.
Born into a noble Cossack family in Uman, Ukraine in 1646, Skoropadsky was educated in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Since then, he focused mostly on religious matters, coming back into politics only in 1646 with his vocal opposition of Władysław's planned campaign against the Ottoman Empire.
From 1646 onwards, rich locals started moving into the Mazarin quarter, built by Michel Mazarin, brother of the Cardinal and Archbishop of Aix from 1645-8.
The manuscript was published in a scholarly edition in 2005 together with the Latin original from 1613 and a translation of the same text into Polish from a print of 1646.
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