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In 1746, he communicated to the Academy of Sciences in Paris a memoir on the distribution of minerals and rocks, and this was accompanied by a map on which he had recorded his observations.
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1746 and Academy
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* 1746 – Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy of Sciences.
It was first published in the 1743 Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences by Swedish master organ maker Daniel Stråhle ( 1700 – 1746 ).
Kalm did field research in Sweden, Russia, and Ukraine from 1742 to 1746, when he was appointed Docent of Natural History and Economics at the Academy of Turku.
His brother, Michel Fourmont ( 1690 – 1746 ), was also a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and professor of the Syriac language in the Royal College, and was sent by the government to copy inscriptions in Greece.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1746.
On the death of Newton he became a candidate for the presidency, but was defeated by Sir Hans Sloane, whom, however, he succeeded in 1741 ; in 1742 he was made a member of the French Academy ; in 1746 he received honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.
Theoretically the head of the Academy was always its President ; however, Count Kirill Razumovsky, who had been appointed President in 1746 ( when he was just 18 ) played only a nominal role in the Academy, and the actual leadership in the Academy, such as there was, belonged to successive Directors.
On 30 June 1746, one year after his brother, he also became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Moreover, after the publication of Essay on the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life in 1746, he was received at the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris.
1746 and Sciences
* " Mémoire sur quelques anciens monumens du Perou, du tems des Incas ", in: Histoire de l ' Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres II ( 1746 ), Berlin 1748, S. 435 – 456 ( hier als PDF ).
In 1746 he presented a list of nebulae, eight of which were his own new discoveries, to the Académie Française des Sciences.
He was president of the parliament of his hometown Dijon from 1741, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1746, and a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon from 1761.
1746 and Paris
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.
Engravers: Jean-Pierre Droz ( 1746 – 1823 ) & Pierre-Joseph Tiolier ( 1763 – 1819 ) Reverse of the same coin 1803 Paris ( AN.
B. M. Bucquet ( 1746 – 1780 ), the professor of chemistry at the Medical School of Paris.
The growing hostility of Paris to the Girondists received a fateful demonstration by the election, on 15 February 1793, of the bitter ex-Girondist Jean-Nicolas Pache ( 1746 – 1823 ) to the mayoralty.
He attended lectures at the Jardin du Roi and the Collège Royal in Paris from 1741 to 1746.
Jean-Sifrein Maury ( June 26, 1746 – May 10, 1817 ) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Paris.
He became bishop of Bayonne in 1741, then archbishop of Vienne in 1745, and in 1746, at the age of forty-three, archbishop of Paris.
Guillaume Coustou the Elder ( November 29, 1677, Lyon-February 22, 1746, Paris ) was a French sculptor and academician.
Nicolas de Largillière ( October 10, 1656 – March 20, 1746 ) was a painter born in Paris, France.
The work had already been given in Paris in 1746, but had attracted little notice.
François-Nicolas Delaistre ( 1746, Paris-1832, Paris ) was a French sculptor.
1746 and memoir
A close friend of the orientalist Sir William Jones ( 1746 – 1794 ), Shore edited a memoir of Jones's life in 1804, containing many of Jones's letters.
1746 and on
It does not consider the kinetic effects of the phosphate builders on sorption-desorption phenomena which will be discussed later ( see pp. 1746 - 1748 ).
In 1746 he wrote his first original work: the Pensées philosophiques, and he added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of natural religion.
To reduce military budgets all horse ( cavalry ) regiments were gradually demoted to dragoons from 1746 onward — which meant they were paid on a lower scale.
The Duke of Cumberland crushed the " Forty-Five " and the hopes of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746.
Following the capture of a few French ships by the British fleet in India, French troops attacked and captured the British city of Madras located on the east coast of India on September 21, 1746.
Henry Fielding wrote a pamphlet titled The Female Husband in 1746, based on the life of Mary Hamilton, who married women on three separate occasions, and was sentenced to public whipping in four separate towns and six months in jail.
It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.
On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.
In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled a £ 200 annuity on the couple.
To force the matter, the Pelham brothers had to resign on the question whether he should be admitted or not, and it was only after all other arrangements had proved impracticable, that they were reinstated with Pitt appointed as Vice Treasurer of Ireland in February 1746.
Year 1746 ( MDCCXLVI ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
* November 15 – Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who becomes Philip V of Spain ( to 1746 ), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701.
* Philip V ( 1700 – 1746 ) 1724, resumed throne on death of son
His fellow students noted him for his love of violence and the macabre ; he had decorated his bedroom with the images of torture and war drawn during the Napoleonic Wars by Spanish artist Francisco Goya ( 1746 – 1828 ), and on one occasion chased one of his classmates while brandishing a dagger.
After an inconclusive clash off Negapatnam in July 1746, Edward Peyton, Barnett's successor, withdrew to Bengal, leaving Bourdonnais unopposed on the Coromandel Coast.
He landed troops near Madras and besieged the port by land and sea, forcing it to surrender on 10 September 1746.
The Jacobites were pursued by King George II's son, the Duke of Cumberland, who caught up with them at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 December 1745, he also action at the Battle of Rocoux in October 1746.
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse ( 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818 ) was a French mathematician and the inventor of descriptive geometry, the mathematical basis on which technical drawing is based.
Located adjacent to the Moravian Church on of land, Linden Hall School was founded by the Moravians in 1746, a decade before the borough was incorporated.
Lunenburg County was established on May 1, 1746, from Brunswick County.
The formal gardens of the Peckham Manor House, rebuilt in 1672 by Sir Thomas Bond were particularly noticeable and can be seen on the Rocque map of 1746.
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