Huygens is remembered especially for his wave theory of light, which he first communicated in 1678 to France's Royal Académie des sciences and which he published in 1690 in his Treatise on light ( see also Huygens-Fresnel principle ).

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.

* 1678 — Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources and demonstrates the refraction and diffraction of light rays.

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.

In 1678 Hautefeuille proposed an early form of internal combustion engine, which was to use gunpowder as a fuel, but it seems unlikely that any such machine was ever constructed by him.

Goudelin essayed and was successful in almost every short genre ( Lou Ramelet Moundi, 1617, republished with additions till 1678 ), the piece of his which is most generally admired being the stanzas to Henry IV of France, though others will prefer him in his gayer moods.

The Yearly Meeting with representatives from each area as described above was restored in 1678, and has met on an annual basis every year since then.

Between 1678 and 1764 takes place called " Tributo de sangre " ( Tribute in blood ), by which for every ton of cargo shipped from the Spanish colonies in Americas to Spain, in exchange for 5 canarian families were sent to populate any of these colonies.

This humiliating conclusion to the king's war policy dragged the political reputation of the King and Danby to a low point, making them vulnerable when the Popish Plot erupted in August and September 1678.

* Great Britain-Limax maximus was described from a scientific point from England in Animalium Angliae Tres Tractatus … Alter de Cochleis tum Terrestribus tum Fluviatilibus by Dr. Martin Lister among first three British slugs in 1678.

In 1678, Trujillo was the farthest point in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, carried out by six pirate ships and 700 men led by the French buccaneer Michel de Grammont.

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.

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

In late 1662 the first part of Hudibras, which he began writing when lodging at Holborn, London in 1658 and continued to work on while in Ludlow, was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively.

The modern Conservative Party was founded in 1834 and is an outgrowth of the Tory movement or party, which began in 1678.

In 1678, after the Treaty of Nijmegen, the king decided that the court and the government would be established permanently in Versailles, which happened on 6 May 1682.

It was made up of three regions: parts of the Counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai, which were ceded to France in successive treaties ( 1659, 1668, and 1678 ).

In 1476, a papal bull cum nulla of Pope Sixtus IV founded the Carmelites of the Third Order, who received a special rule in 1635, which was amended in 1678.

The danger incurred by the use of this bayonet ( which put a stop to all fire ) was felt so early that the younger Puységur invented a socket bayonet in 1678 that fitted over the muzzle using a circular band of metal, allowing the musket to be loaded and fired.

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.

In 1674, French troops again took the city, which the Treaty of Nijmegen ( 1678 ) then awarded to France.

In 1678 the owners of houses surrounding the Green purchased the land to save it from being built on and in 1690 the land was conveyed to a trust under which it was to be kept open and rent from it used for the benefit of poor people living in the vicinity.

By the Treaty of Nijmegen of 1678 Spain relinquished Cambrai, which has remained to this day a part of France.

In 1678, Thomas Lawrence, a New York baker, acquired a large area around the Lawrence Brook, which likely included today's Milltown.

In 1678 he became captain in the Guards, with which he served in Tangier ; in 1685 he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of fusiliers, but gave up his commission shortly after the accession of James II.

The French priest Richard Simon brought these critical perspectives to the Catholic tradition in 1678, observing " the most part of the Holy Scriptures that are come to us, are but Abridgments and as Summaries of ancient Acts which were kept in the Registries of the Hebrews ," in what was probably the first work of biblical textual criticism in the modern sense.

These are Ariane ( 1672 ) and the Le Comte d ' Essex ( The Earl of Essex ( 1678 )), in the former of which Rachel attained success.

It was licensed and entered in the " Term Catalogue " on 18 February 1678, which is looked upon as the date of first publication.

Part of it rejoined the Southern Netherlands after the Treaty of Nijmegen ( 1678 ), which drew the frontier right through its territory.

Israel cites a letter from More to Glanvill, from 1678 and included in Sadducismus Triumphatus, in which he says that followers of Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza use scepticism about " spirits and angels " to undermine belief in the Scripture mentioning them.

He also linked the murder of Gloucester to the recent assassination of Edmund Berry Godfrey, an incident which had led to an outbreak of anti-Catholic hysteria in London in 1678.

Jordaens died of the mysterious Antwerp disease (' zweetziekte ' or ' polderkoorts ' in Dutch ) in October 1678, which, on the same day, also killed his unmarried daughter Elizabeth, who had lived with him.

In his own college he completed in 1665 the north side of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's great quadrangle, already begun by his father but abandoned during the Commonwealth ; in 1672, he rebuilt the east side of the Chaplain's quadrangle " with a straight passage under it leading from the cloister into the field ," occupied now by the new Meadow Buildings ; the lodgings of the canon of the third stall in the passage uniting the Tom Quad and Peckwater Quadrangle ( c. 1674 ); a long building joining the Chaplain's quadrangle on the east side in 1677 – 1678 ; and lastly the great Tom Tower gate, begun in June 1681 on the foundation laid by Wolsey and finished in November 1682, to which the bell " great Tom ," after being recast, was transferred from the cathedral in 1683.

Titus Oates ( 1649-1705 ), whose accusations in autumn 1678 that there was a Popish Plot to murder the king and massacre English Protestants, set off a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

* Jones ; J. R. The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678 – 1683, 1961 online edition

Less noted is his published call in 1749 for the roofing-over of Perrault's classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures, both those that had been built against it, in order to form a proper Place du Louvre, and those in the centre of the Cour Carré itself Sections of the palace were in danger of collapse, scarcely touched by royal indifference after 1678 ; work did begin in 1755 to clear the facade of the Louvre, overseen by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Marigny, supervisor of the Bâtiments du Roi.

Roundhead remained in use to describe those with republican tendencies up until the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 ; the term was then superseded by Whig, initially another term with pejorative connotations.

; Holy Trinity Church: built in the years 1619 – 1627 in the baroque style, burned in a fire and was rebuilt in the years 1678 – 1691

An attempt by William to convince his uncle to enter the war against Louis failed in April ; Charles would till the end of that war in 1678 try to negotiate between the two parties, at times pretending to really consider a conflict with France, when such pretence was beneficial to him.

* Pleas of the Crown ; A Methodical Summary ( 1678 );

Initially, the Act did not extend to peers ; but in 1678 the Act was extended by a further Act ( 30 Car.

He also advocated with Essay Concerning Preaching ( 1678 ) simple speech, rather than bluntness, in preaching, as Robert South did, with hits at nonconformist sermons ; he was quite aware that the term " plain " takes a great deal of unpacking.

* 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.

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 ).

Louis XIV had emerged from the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 as the most powerful monarch in Europe ; but, although he had expanded his realm, the ' Sun King ' remained unsatisfied.

Great Sleigh Drive ( 1678 ): Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Spit | Curonian Lagoon ; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, ca.

When parliament met early in 1678 assurances were received from Charles that he had arranged the treaties demanded by the Commons ; but Sacheverell boldly questioned the king's good faith, and warned the Commons that they were being deceived.

When the secret treaty with France became known, confirming Sacheverell's insight, he called for the disbandment of the forces and advocated the refusal of further supplies for military purposes ; and in June 1678 he resolutely opposed Lord Danby's proposal to grant £ 300, 000 per annum to Charles II for life.

He was a member of the committee that drafted the articles of impeachment against Danby in 1678, and was appointed one of the managers of the Commons ; and in 1679, when the impeachment, interrupted by the dissolution of parliament, was resumed in the new parliament, he spoke strongly against the validity of Danby's plea of pardon by the king.