In response to Hobbes, the French Philosopher Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed Cartesian Dualism, which posits that there is a divisible, mechanical body and an indivisible, immaterial mind which interact with one another.

Daniel's grandfather moved from Kneiphof in Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) to Danzig and settled there as a merchant in 1650.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first written use of the term for a political movement to 1644, but the source cited there, Marchamont Needham's pamphlet The Case for the Commonwealth of England Stated, dates from 1650.

By 1650 there were 44, 000 English settlers in the West Indies, as compared to 12, 000 on the Chesapeake and 23, 000 in New England.

The story that he was at Westminster School between 1641 and 1646 is substantiated only by Parentalia, the biography compiled by his son, a fourth Christopher, which places him there " for some short time " before going up to Oxford ( in 1650 ); however, it is entirely consistent with headmaster Doctor Busby's well-documented practice of educating the sons of impoverished Royalists and Puritans alike, irrespective of current politics or his own position.

In 1650, the size of the baskets themselves had reduced considerably, although there was still a certain amount of variation between pitches.

In 1650 the family moved to Passenheim ( Pasym ) and there witnessed the brutality and horrors of the Polish Tatar attacks, fighting for the Kingdom of Poland, in southern Prussia.

In 1650 William suddenly died however, so there was no longer any need for Cromwell's support against him.

Before 1780, Grigsby ’ s Bluff, explicitly that part of Port Neches immediately east of Port Neches Park, had been an Indian town for at least 1, 500 years, at first of the Karankawa tribe, whose 7-foot skeletons were often found in the burial mounds there ; and after 1650 of the Nacazils, a sub-tribe of the Attakapas, who were a short and stocky people before their extinction about 1780.

This family bible may have belonged to the family of his ancestor Edward Browne who in 1668 in Maryland, Virginia married Sarah Williams, the daughter of Morgan Williams ( there were at least five people called Morgan Williams who immigrated to Virginia between 1639 and 1650 ).

These were the " seven cities of Cibola " sought by early Spanish explorers. By 1650, there were only six Zuni villages.

Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J PayneDuring the transition from galleons to more frigate like warships ( 1600 – 1650 ) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers ; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was " cut down " and made a safe and fast ship.

However, before 1650, there was another development.

Edward Bland, an explorer who accompanied Abraham Wood's expedition in 1650, wrote that in Opechancanough's day, there had been a falling-out between the " Chawan " chief and the weroance of the Powhatan ( also a relative of Opechancanough's family ).

It is thought that Oliver Cromwell was in Aylesbury around 1650, although there is no evidence that he stayed in the King's Head.

The church was badly damaged by an explosion in 1650 caused when some barrels of gunpowder being stored in the churchyard exploded ; its west tower and some 50 nearby houses were destroyed, and there were many fatalities.

In general, lute songs were written from about 1550 to around 1650, though there is evidence that some music was performed this way much earlier ( for instance, Baldassare Castiglione mentions that frottola were sometimes performed by solo voice and lute, presumably in the first decade or so of the 16th century.

After Oliver Cromwell's return from Ireland in June 1650, Cromwell appointed Ludlow as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command to Henry Ireton in Parliament's campaign there.

Other presumption is that the name Tanah Abang was given by the Javanese people who stayed in Banten and worked for Phoa Bingham ( or Bingam ), a Chinese captain, when they cut the forest there in 1650.

Lord Gorges was succeeded in the captaincy by Colonel Thomas Eyre, who in 1650 secured a grant of further ordnance and an increase in the number of soldiers stationed there.

He lived there between 1642 and 1650.

Before the augmentation there were three bells, the lightest dated 1828 by John Kingston ( Bridgewater ), the second dated 1602 ( inscribed: " ANNO DOMINI 1602 RP ") with the tenor apparently from the same founder, but dated 1650.

While there were many great French masters at the time, the most influential in proposing these hands was Louis Babedor, who published Les Escitures Financières Et Italienne Bastarde Dans Leur Naturel circa 1650.

In 1650, there were Native Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp, but white immigrants showed little interest.

Fishing reels first appeared in England around 1650 AD, and by the 1760s, London tackle shops were advertising multiplying or gear-retrieved reels.

This was a warm-up for his most famous work, the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti (" Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world "), which appeared in 1650, and its continuation, Annalium pars postierior, published in 1654.

An early mention appears in an aside in a versified chronicle of weekly happenings that appeared regularly for several years, Jean Loret's La Muse Historique, collected in 1650.

Grist mill built by Winthrop in New London in 1650 as it appeared in 1910

The half note and quarter note are reported to have first appeared in Frescobaldi's publication of < span lang =" it "> Fra Jacopino </ span >.</ ref > Edward Kilenyi pointed out that < span lang =" it "> Fra Jacopino </ span > shares the same < span lang =" fr "> Frère Jacques </ span >- like melody as < span lang =" fr "> Chanson de Lambert </ span >, a French song dating from 1650, and a Hungarian folk tune.

Next year ( 1650 ) appeared, also through Elzevir, the work by which he is best known, his Geographia Generalis, in which he endeavoured to lay down the general principles of the subject on a wide scientific basis, according to the knowledge of his day.

Finally there appeared in 1643 the first three volumes of the Dogmata theologica ( dated 1644 ); the fourth and fifth volumes were published in 1650 ; the work was incomplete at Pétau's death, and despite several attempts was never continued.

Subsequent editions, revised and enlarged by James Howell, appeared in 1650, 1660 and 1673.

* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

* 1650 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress ( d. 1687 )

However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.

* 1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general ( d. 1722 )

* 1650 – John Robinson, English diplomat ( d. 1723 )

The English commentator Thomas Hayne claimed that the prophecies of the Book of Daniel had all been fulfilled by the 1st century (‘ Christs Kingdom on Earth ’, 1645 ), and Joseph Hall expressed the same conclusion concerning Daniel ’ s prophecies (‘ The Revelation Unrevealed ’, 1650 ), but neither of them applied their preterist views to Revelation.

First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.

The English settled Nevis ( 1628 ), Antigua ( 1632 ), Montserrat ( 1632 ) and later Anguilla ( 1650 ) and Tortola ( 1672 ).

* 1650 – Jeremy Collier, English bishop ( d. 1726 )

* 1650 – Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.

Before initial contact ( 1650 ), the English, based on reports from Algonquian natives, thought the three tribes were one people, grouped by the Algonquian exonym as the Mangoag.

** Phineas Fletcher, English poet ( d. 1650 )

** Thomas May, English poet and historian ( d. 1650 )

* November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1650 )

* August 20 – William Bedloe, English informer ( b. 1650 )

* September 3 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar ( 1650 ).

* December 18 – Simonds d ' Ewes, English antiquarian and politician ( d. 1650 )

* April 11 – John Robinson, English diplomat ( b. 1650 )

* April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian ( b. 1650 )

** John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general ( b. 1650 )

* December 17 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman ( b. 1650 )

** John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist ( d. 1650 )