The ideas expressed in both books of Baldauf stand in the traditional line of French theologians like Jean Hardouin, Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ) and Barthelemy Germon, S. J.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the second HMS Resolution c. 1678

* February 20 – Jean Jacques d ' Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist ( b. 1678 )

* June 24 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier ( b. 1678 )

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In his 1678 Traité de la Lumiere, Christiaan Huygens showed how Snell's law of sines could be explained by, or derived from, the wave nature of light, using what we have come to call the Huygens – Fresnel principle.

Par Monsieur Boyer de l ’ Academie françoise ( 1678 ).

In 1678, Louis XIV commissioned the court jeweller, Sieur Pitau, to recut the Tavernier Blue, resulting in a stone which royal inventories thereafter listed as the Blue Diamond of the Crown of France ( diamant bleu de la Couronne de France ), but later English-speaking historians have simply called it the French Blue.

From 1660 to 1792 Urk and Emmeloord belonged to the municipality of Amsterdam, and ruled from 1660 to 1672 / 1678 by Andries de Graeff.

The first of such institutions only trained the Artillery and Military Engineering officiers, like the Aula da Artilharia ( founded in 1641 ) and the Aula de Fortificação ( 1647 ) in Lisbon, the Real Accademia di Savoia in Turin ( opened in 1678 ), the Imperial Artillery Military Academy of Saint Petersburg ( 1698 ), the Royal Military Academy Woolwich ( 1741 ), the Real Colegio de Artilleria in Segovia ( 1764 ).

Protais ' writing about their travel was published by Melchisédech Thévenot ( Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s – 1696 editions ) and Johann Michael Vansleb ( The Present State of Egypt, 1678 ).

* Thomas de Pinedo, 1678, = Stephanus.

His three opera librettoes, Psyché ( 1678 ), Bellérophon ( 1679 ) and Médée ( 1693 ) make him, next to Philippe Quinault and Jean Galbert de Campistron, one of the most important French librettists of the seventeenth century.

* Jean de Collas ( 1678 – 1753 ), architect

An abridgment of his philosophy was given by his friend, the celebrated traveller, François Bernier ( Abrégé de la philosophie de Gassendi, 8 vols., 1678 ; 2nd ed., 7 vols., 1684 ).

** Martin de Barcos, French Jansenist theologian ( died 1678 )

* date unknown-Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, maxim writer ( died 1678 )

* Maximes ( 1665 – 1678 ) by François de La Rochefoucauld ( 1613 – 1680 )

His earliest writings, which were anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland: the execution of James Mitchell on a charge of having attempted to murder Archbishop James Sharp, and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, for high treason and rebellion ( Ravillac Redivivus, 1678 ; The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants, 1680 ).

The Life of the Archbishop appeared in 1619, and the first part of the Chronicle of St Dominic in 1623, while the second and third parts appeared posthumously in 1662 and 1678 ; in addition he wrote, by order of the government, the Annals of D. John III., which were published by Alexandre Herculano in 1846.

* Histoire critique du Vieux Testament, Paris, 1678 ; A critical history of the Old Testament ( 1682 ), available at archive. org.

He was released in July, and immediately entered into intrigues with Paul Barillon, the French ambassador, with the object of hindering the grant of supplies to the king ; and in 1678 he visited Paris to get the assistance of Louis XIV for the opposition's cause.

Cartwright was not the first man to design an automatic loom, this had been done in 1678 by M. de Gennes in Paris, and again by Vaucanson in 1745, but these never developed and were forgotten.

In the summer of 1678, Lady Sussex was abducted from a convent in Paris and seduced by Ralph Montagu ( afterwards 1st Duke of Montagu ).

In a letter to King Charles, dated " Paris, Tuesday the 28th, 1678 ," her mother wrote:

Du Cange's most important work is his Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis ( Glossary of medieval and late Latin, Paris, 1678 ).

He died at Paris in 1678.

In June 1678, Hartsoeker accompanied, in the role of an assistant, Huygens on a trip to Paris, where they made a great impression with their microscopes.

Pierre Rémond de Montmort, a French mathematician, was born in Paris on 27 October 1678, and died there on 7 October 1719.

Jean Bérain the Younger ( 1678 in Paris – 1726 in Paris ) was a French designer, and son of Jean Bérain the Elder.

He acted as coadjutor to the archbishops of Santiago de Compostella and Paris, and to the bishop of Ghent, and died at Ghent on the 23rd of August 1678.

Probably on account of his English connections he was selected in 1678 by Louis XIV to carry out the secret negotiations for a compact with Charles II, a difficult mission which he executed with great skill.

Sanderson's sermons were also admired ; but he is perhaps best remembered for his Nine Cases of Conscience Resolved ( 1678 ), in consideration of which he has been placed at the head of English casuists.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

Its first building was built in 1678 – 1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

The first opera house in Germany was built in Hamburg in 1678.

The county hall and court house were built between 1678 and 1682, to assert this status.

In January 1678, he took his seat in the House of Lords, but in August the first development of the Popish Plot was followed by an Act for disabling Catholics from sitting in either house of Parliament.

In 1563, it had one house but there were four houses there by 1678.

On 30 July 1678, Lord Willougby married Mary Wynn ( d. 20 September 1689 ), a Welsh heiress and direct descendent of the princely house of Aberffraw.

* 1678 Completely destroyed except one house and the valuable leather Pietà.

The first major settler in the area was William Robinson who built a house in 1678 on what is now Freeman Street.

He passed the house on to Robert Villiers, 3rd Viscount Purbeck, who occupied the house for two years ( 1676 – 1678 ).

In 1678 a bedridden cacica ( a female chief ) was given permission to brew and consume cacina in her house, on the condition that no one else could be present while she did so.

The Coffin House is a historic Colonial American house, currently estimated to have been constructed circa 1678.

The house began in 1678 as a simple structure of two or possibly three rooms on land owned by Tristram Coffin, Jr. About 1713 the house was more than doubled in size, with new partitions added.

It takes its name from Moor Park, a country house which was originally built in 1678 – 9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni.

* According to the Beverly Historical Society, the house was built from timbers harvested in 1678 / 1679.