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In 1736 Maupertuis acted as chief of the French Geodesic Mission sent by King Louis XV to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of arc of the meridian.
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1736 and Maupertuis
In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.
In 1736, together with Pierre Louis Maupertuis, he took part in the expedition to Lapland, which was undertaken for the purpose of estimating a degree of the meridian arc.
One expedition under Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1736 – 37 ) was sent to Torne Valley ( as far North as possible ).
The constellation Rangifer was created by the French astronomer Lemonnier in 1736 to commemorate the expedition of Maupertuis to Lapland.
In 1735 and 1736 brought out two treatises on the figure of the earth ; but these attempts to solve geometrical problems by literary material were, to a great extent, refuted by Maupertuis ' measurements of a degree within the polar circle.
1736 and chief
Pinckney was long prominent in colonial affairs, serving as attorney general of the Province of South Carolina in 1733, speaker of the assembly in 1736, 1738 and 1740, chief justice of the province in 1752 – 1753, and agent for South Carolina in England in 1753 – 1758.
* Andrew Adams ( 1736 – 97 ), jurist, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, state chief justice and signer of the Articles of Confederation, born in Stratford.
He later served as the colony's chief justice from 1731 to 1739, and in the absence of a governor of Pennsylvania, became acting governor from 1736 to 1738.
Therefore, In 1736, Eybeschutz was only appointed dayan of Prague and not chief rabbi.
1736 and French
These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.
During the pontificate of Pius IX a strong Ultramontane movement arose against the French Breviaries of 1680 and 1736.
Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.
* 1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l ' Isle, French chemist ( b. 1736 )
* 1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi.
* 1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer ( d. 1793 )
Other lodges include a lodge at Bath in 1735, and the French lodge, St. George de l ' Observance No. 49 at Covent Garden in 1736.
* July 3 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l ' Isle, French chemist ( b. 1736 )
* August 23 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist ( b. 1736 )
Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.
The town of Darien ( originally known as New Inverness ) was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin and their Indian allies.
In 1736, during the French war with the Chickasaw nation, de Vincennes was captured and burned at the stake near the present-day town of Fulton, Mississippi.
Settled after 1736, it was intended to be a fort town protecting the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the French and Indian Wars.
Originally part of " Shrewsbury Towne ", Red Bank was named in 1736, when Thomas Morford sold Joseph French " a lot of over three acres on the west side of the highway that goes to the red bank.
Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly ( 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793 ) was a French astronomer, mathematician, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
* Claude-Guy Hallé ( 1652 – 1736 ), French painter
His first recorded astronomical observation was made before he was sixteen, and the presentation of an elaborate lunar map resulted in his admission to the French Academy of Sciences, on 21 April 1736, aged only 20.
* René Duguay-Trouin ( 1673 – 1736 ) French corsair and Admiral that captured the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1711
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806 ) was a French physicist.
It was also translated into Dutch ( 1736 ), German ( 1741 ), and French ( 1745 ).
1736 and Geodesic
In 1736 – 1737, the French Academy of Sciences carried out the French Geodesic Mission for measuring the shape of the Earth.
1736 and Mission
Father Padre Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta ( June 7, 1736 – June 26, 1803 ) was a Spanish missionary to Alta California, the second presidente and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain.
1736 and sent
In 1736, the Marathas sent an ultimatum to Delhi and demanded the Emperor to give up Mathura.
In 1735 Pope Clement XII sent him again to the East where he presided over the 1736 Maronite Synod of Mount-Lebanon, which laid the foundations for the modern Maronite Church.
In 1736, a commission of six men sent a surveying party under Mayo's leadership to explore Lord Fairfax's territory, one of three such parties outfitted at that time ( see John Savage ).
1736 and by
Prince Eugene of Savoy ( 1663 – 1736 ) by Jacob van Schuppen.
The use of coloured cotton weft with linen warp was permitted by the 1736 Manchester Act.
), the first recorded occurrences of the relevant words were Tao 1736, Tau 1747, Taouism and Taouist 1838, Taoistic 1856, Tao-ism 1858, Taoism 1903 wrong, at least antedated by Balfour ( 1881 ), Daoism 1948, Dao and Daoist 1971.
Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 1686 – 1736 ).
The paper written by Leonhard Euler on the Seven Bridges of Königsberg and published in 1736 is regarded as the first paper in the history of graph theory.
Telemann's friends in Hamburg organized a collection to save the composer's finances, and eventually he was saved from bankruptcy ; by 1736 Maria had left Telemann's home.
It was made independent in 1717 from the Safavid dynasty by the Afghans until 1736 when the Hotaki dynasty was defeated by the Afsharids, which finally became part of the Durrani Empire in 1747.
* 1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736 – 1739.
In 1736, the smoking of pure opium was described by Huang Shujing, involving a pipe made from bamboo rimmed with silver, stuffed with palm slices and hair, fed by a clay bowl in which a globule of molten opium was held over the flame of an oil lamp.
It was also hit by frequent outbreaks of plague, and by floods, particularly that of 1736, which destroyed most of the suburban buildings.
Despite the clear connection between deforestation and the increasing number of floods ( in 1732, 1734, 1736, 1747, 1756 and 1787 ) the East India Company ’ s Court of Directors gave little support to efforts by governors to eradicate the goat problem.
He became such a troublesome critic of the government that Walpole moved to punish him by arranging his dismissal from the army in 1736, along with several of his friends and political allies.
* 1736: Europeans encountered rubber – the discovery was made by Charles-Marie de la Condamine while on expedition in South America.
La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ( 1710 – 1736 ), is the one intermezzo still performed with any regularity today, and provides an excellent example of the style.
Another source of his inspiration were drawings he collected, some drawings of Palladio himself, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and many more of Inigo Jones ' pupil John Webb, which Kent published in 1727 ( although a date of 1736 is generally accepted ) as Some Designs of Mr Inigo Jones ... with Some Additional Designs that were by Kent and Burlington.
) It was first stated and proved by Leonhard Euler in 1736.
Four fingers on Mary's left hand, broken during a move, were restored in 1736 by Giuseppe Lirioni, and scholars are divided as to whether the restorer took liberties to make the gesture more ' rhetorical '.
Clarke County was established in 1736 by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron who built a home, Greenway Court, on part of his 5 million acre ( 20, 000 km² ) property, near what is now the village of White Post.
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