A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

The Encyclopédie, published by a group of philosophers over the years 1751 – 1777, summarized French male beliefs of women.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

However, his first publication, A Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire, was not released until 1777, at which time both Joseph Priestley and Lavoisier had already published their experimental data and conclusions concerning oxygen and the phlogiston theory.

On January 3, 1777, an excerpt from an anonymous letter was published in Inrikes Tidningar.

Savary did visit Lower Egypt in 1777 – 78, and published a work about that too.

In 1777 – 78 Piranesi published Avanzi degli Edifici di Pesto, ( Remains of the Edifices of Paestum ) a collection of views of Paestum.

* Historia Plantarum in Palatinatu Electorali is a book by Johan Adam Pollich published 1776 – 1777.

The leading reformer was John Howard ( prison reformer ) whose great work, The State of Prisons in England and Wales with preliminary observations and an account of some foreign prisons was published in 1777.

His life, with a complete list of his writings, which amounted to 287, Leben und Charakter des Kirchenraths J. G. Walch, was published anonymously by his son CWF Walch ( Jena, 1777 ).

Having visited several hundred prisons across England, Scotland, Wales and wider Europe, Howard published the first edition of The State of the Prisons in 1777.

An incomplete edition of his dramatic works was published in 1777 in four volumes.

Blair published the first of his five volume series Sermons in 1777.

On the death of his friend and master in 1777 he published a brief memoir, which afterwards grew into the Anecdotes of William Bowyer and his Literary Friends ( 1782 ).

His best known work was First Lines of the Practice of Physic, which was published in a series of editions between 1777 and 1784.

Cullen's most popular and successful work was his medical textbook First Lines of the Practice of Physic, published in two volumes in 1777 and expanded with each edition until it reached four volumes in its final edition ( 1784 ).

In 1777, Jacob published a book about his various fossil finds, including what he called " the remains of an elephant ".

His hymns were published in " Original Hymns and Poems " By Philotheorus ( Exeter, England: B. Thorn, 1777 ).

First published anonymously in 1764, Pownall revised the work and republished the work several times between 1765 and 1777.

Since Peter Simon Pallas's first description published in 1777, a significant number of subspecies have been described between 1820 and 1992.

In 1777 he published a work on smallpox representing an advance on the previous treatises by Richard Mead and others.

The detailed results of his trials were published in 1776 and reprinted in 1777.

In 1777 he published under the title of Discours choisis his panegyrics on Saint Louis, Saint Augustine and Fénelon, his remarks on Bossuet and his Essai sur l ' éloquence de la chaire, a volume which contains much good criticism, and remained a French classic through the nineteenth century, as long as elegant rhetoric was valued in the pulpit.

A second pamphlet on the war with America, the debts of Great Britain, and kindred topics followed in the spring of 1777.

A 1777 pamphlet supporting naval impressments won him the patronage of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, but Butler withdrew from general political activity to press for Catholic relief.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

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In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

Phillip played a leading part in the capture of the Spanish ship San Agustín ( 1768 ), on 19 April 1777, off Santa Catarina.

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Braunschweig ( Brunswick ), in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, now part of Lower Saxony, Germany, as the son of poor working-class parents.

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

At the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, Howe outmaneuvered Washington, and marched into the American capital at Philadelphia unopposed on September 26.

The method is based on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) and Adrien-Marie Legendre ( 1752 – 1833 ) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication and square roots.

The name Eschrichtius gibbosus is sometimes seen ; this is dependent on the acceptance of a 1777 description by Erxleben.

The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.

Creator of the Argentine Navy ( Armada de la República Argentina, ARA ) and leader of the Argentine Armed Forces in the wars against Brazil and Spain, he was born in Foxford, County Mayo on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires in 1857.

Christmas Island was discovered by Captain James Cook on Christmas Eve ( 24 December ) 1777.

Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.