* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

It was 12 years, in 1772, before the subscribers received the final 27 folio volumes of the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers since the first volume had been published.

The Encyclopédie was edited by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert and Denis Diderot and published in 17 volumes of articles, issued from 1751 to 1765, and 11 volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772.

In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).

The first of these was Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), a Swedish scientist who after a religious experience devoted himself to Christian mysticism, believing that he could travel to Heaven and Hell and commune with angels, demons and spirits, and who published widely on the subject of his experiences.

Of the 348 hymns in the original published edition of 1779 some commentaries state that Cowper wrote just 66 between 1772 and 1773, and Newton the remainder, while other sources attribute 67 to Cowper.

1772 – 74, published 1789 ), addressing God ( as Zeus ) in misotheist accusation and defiance.

The virial theorem can be obtained directly from Lagrange's Identity as applied in classical gravitational dynamics, the original form of which was included in Lagrange's " Essay on the Problem of Three Bodies " published in 1772.

In 1772, he published another paper on integral calculus which was widely hailed as a groundbreaking paper in several domains.

Published at Bath in about 1772, this was considered the first Black African autobiography published in Britain.

James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 was published.

Charles Vallancey, for example, published a work in 1772 attempting to prove that the Irish language was Phoenician, while John Pinkerton's A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths ( 1787 ) attempted to show that the Scots were Scythians who had originated in Central Asia.

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers () was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.

The first seventeen volumes were published between 1751 and 1765 ; eleven volumes of plates were finished by 1772.

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* William Lilly and Elias Ashmole, Lives of Those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole and Mr. William Lilly, published by T. Davies, 1772, London.

Niebuhr's first book, Beschreibung von Arabien, was published in Copenhagen in 1772, the Danish government providing subsidies for the engraving and printing of its numerous illustrations.

at Cambridge, and delivered at Lincoln's Inn the first Warburton lectures, which were published later ( 1772 ) as An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies concerning the Christian Church.

* Le Bon Sens, published 1772 ( Good Sense: or, Natural Ideas Opposed to Supernatural ).

In July 1772 Burney again visited the continent, to do further research, and, after his return to London, published his tour under the title of The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces ( 1773 ).

Burney's first tour was translated into German by Ebeling, and printed at Hamburg in 1772 ; and his second tour, translated into German by Bode, was published at Hamburg in 1773.

At last, however, one was brought to Europe and was published at Zolkiev in 1772 by Isaac Satanow.

His first Scots poem to be published ( The Daft Days ) appeared on 2 January 1772, and from that date on he submitted works in both languages.

In 1772, Priestley published a paper entitled " Impregnating Water with Fixed Air " in which he describes dripping " oil of vitriol " ( sulfuric acid ) onto chalk to produce carbon dioxide gas, and encouraging the gas to dissolve into an agitated bowl of water.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Then followed Daphnis ( 1754 ), Idyllen ( 1756 and 1772 ), Inkel and Yariko ( 1756 ), a version of a story borrowed from The Spectator and already worked out by Gellert and Bodmer, and Der Tod Abels ( 1758 ), which Gessner called “ a sort of idyllic prose pastoral .”

1768-1778 ), Geheimes Tagebuch von einem Beobachter seiner selbst ( 2 vols., 1772 – 1773 ), and Pontius Pilatus, oder der Mensch in allen Gestalten ( 4 vols., 1782 – 1785 ).

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* 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch physician ( d. 1772 )

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau ( 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ), was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

* May 7 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician ( d. 1772 )

* Paulus van Schuylenburgh ( 1772 – 1781 )

It took several years to build the Catholic Diocese, from 1760 to 1772, and Pieter Teyler van der Hulst would have attended the meetings there as a member, but he could not become a board member due to his religion.

Gerard van Swieten ( May 7, 1700 – June 18, 1772 ) was a Dutch-Austrian physician.

Medal of 1772 featuring van Swieten

A competition was accordingly organized by Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen which was won by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens ( 1780 – 1856 ) with his poem Wien Neerlandsch bloed …, which, after some failed attempts by less gifted composers, was set to music by Johann Wilhelm Wilms ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German expatriate living in Amsterdam.

Johann Heinrich van Ess ( February 15, 1772 – October 13, 1847 ), was a German Catholic theologian, born at Warburg, Westphalia.

Imperial Count Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf van Heiden (; transliterated Russian name: Login Petrovich Geiden ) ( 6 September 1772 N. S.

In 1772, Rousseau was invited to present recommendations for a new constitution for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the Considerations on the Government of Poland, which was to be his last major political work.

* August 1 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third ( and last ) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( 1771 – 1772 ) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

The earliest nomenclaturally valid work to use the name " Crustacea " was Morten Thrane Brünnich's in 1772, although he also included chelicerates in the group.

During 1772, they asked Smeaton to survey a route to avoid the lower Aire, but his assistant, William Jessop actually carried out the work.

Augustin Ehrensvärd ( 1710 – 1772 ) and his gigantic fortification work on the islands off the town of Helsinki brought the district a new and unexpected importance.

Here he wrote his Neue Apologie des Socrates ( 1772 ), a work occasioned by an attack on the fifteenth chapter of Jean-François Marmontel's Belisarius by Peter Hofstede, a Rotterdam clergyman.

The same work contained the celebrated formula known as Taylor's theorem, the importance of which remained unrecognised until 1772, when J. L. Lagrange realized its powers and termed it " le principal fondement du calcul différentiel " (" the main foundation of differential calculus ").

The first work he edited was the Anthologia Graeca or Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum ( 1772 – 1776 ), in which his innovations on the established mode of criticism startled European scholars.

Even so in 1772, King Louis XV granted Cugnot a pension of 600 livres a year for his innovative work and the experiment was judged interesting enough for the fardier to be kept at the Arsenal until transferred to the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1800, where it can still be seen today.

The work of Rebecca Hammond Lard ( 1772 – 1855 ), although quite old, still apply to life in today's world.

The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 1772 and 1775 ; however, the details of that development are no longer entirely clear.

( Halle, 1772 ) was long considered a reference work on Russian history.

* Cazotte's Le Diable amoureux ( The Devil in Love, 1772 ) was sub-titled un roman fantastique, the first time in literary history that a work was so labeled.

James's " vastation " initiated a spiritual crisis that lasted two years, and was finally resolved through the thorough exploration of the work of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), the Swedish scientist, religious visionary and teacher, and mystic.

This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as the founder of scientific technology, a term which he was the first to use in 1772.

In 1772 Beckmann was elected a member of the Royal Society of Göttingen, and he contributed valuable scientific dissertations to its proceedings until 1783, when he withdrew from all further share in its work.

Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) inspired Andrew Jackson Davis ( 1826 – 1910 ), in his major work The Great Harmonia to say that Summerland is the pinnacle of spiritual achievement in the afterlife ; that is, it is the highest level, or ' sphere ', of the afterlife we can hope to enter.

Building the fortress of Sveaborg became a life's work for Ehrensvärd, who kept expanding the island fortress until his death in 1772.

In 1772 he published the first part of The Antiquities of England and Wales, a work which he unashamedly aimed at the popular market.

His 1772 work, " Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devices ", is deemed to have done " more than any other to preserve the Rule in Shelley's Case as black letter law ( as distinguished from a rule of construction ).

James succeeded Robert as Architect of the King ’ s Works in 1768 just before work on the brothers ' Adelphi project ( 1768 – 1772 ) almost bankrupted the firm ( the business employed other notable architects including Joseph Bonomi ( 1739 – 1808 ) who, from 1768, remained with the Adams until 1781 ).

Delolme also wrote in English Parallel between the English Government and the former Government of Sweden ( 1772 ); A History of the Flagellants ( 1782 ), based upon a work of Boileau's ; An Essay on the Union of Scotland with England ( 1787 ), and one or two smaller works.