They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17th century.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

The speaking of the lines seemed excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the spirit of 17th century elegance.

In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the famous 17th century microscopist, discovered living organisms ( living, because they were motile ) in deposits on the teeth ( what we now call dental plaque ).

The Mitanni appeared in the 17th century BC and spoke an Indo-Aryan language related to the Indo-European languages eventually to be found in India.

It was established to be an element around the 17th century.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ever since Arminius and his followers revolted against Calvinism in the early 17th century, Protestant soteriology has been largely divided between Calvinism and Arminianism.

The Bolivian Andes produce principally tin although historically silver mining had a huge impact on the economy of 17th century Europe.

The rules were not completely fixed in the 17th century.

When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.

Natural philosophers ( astronomers and others ) of the 17th century transposed their discoveries into Latin anagrams, to establish their priority.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.

The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, a Mestizo historian and descendant of Coanacoch, wrote an account of the executions in the 17th century partly based on Texcocan oral tradition.

The foundation of the Arts College ( University of Oviedo ) by Fernando de Valdés Salas, at the beginning of the 17th century, opened Oviedo to a progressive urban expansion.

*** 17th Bomb Squadron ( San Fernando Auxiliary Field )

Mission San Fernando Rey de España was established in 1797 as the 17th of the twenty-one missions.

In the 17th century, the San Fernando del Río Negro Jesuit mission was founded in the area of the modern-day city of Resistencia, but it was abandoned 15 years later.

At the death of Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba and 10th Duke of Berwick, the English title was inherited by his nephew Don Fernando FitzJames Stuart, 15th Duke of Peñaranda de Duero ( 1922 – 1971 ), and subsequently Fernando's son Don Jacobo FitzJames Stuart, 16th Duke of Peñaranda de Duero and current head of the House of FitzJames ( born in 1947 and without children ).

* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )

Francesco Lana de Terzi, a 17th century Jesuit professor of physics and mathematics from Brescia, Lombardy, has been referred to as the Father of Aeronautics.

Toward the latter half of the 17th century, Louis XIV founded his ' Académie Royale de Musique et de Danse ', where specific rules for the execution of every dance and the " five positions " of the feet were formulated for the first time by members of the Académie.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

The remaining ones were defined in the 17th and 18th century ; the most recent ones are found on the southern sky, defined in Coelum australe stelliferum by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille ( 1763 ).

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.

John de Vere also maintained a company of players known as " Oxford's Men ", which was discontinued by the 17th Earl two years after his father's death.

Portrait of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas writing in the 17th century, records that Olid's soldiers rose up and murdered him.

The early 17th century saw the first successful French settlements in the New World with the voyages of Samuel de Champlain.

Levi created his image of Baphomet, published in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), by combining symbolism from diverse traditions, including the Diable card of the 16th and 17th century Tarot of Marseille.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

* A number of accounts by 17th and 18th century French explorers: Jean-Bernard Bossu, François-Marie Perrin du Lac, Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, Dumont ( as published by Fr.

A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, is the most popular alternative candidate for the author behind the alleged pseudonym, Shakespeare.

The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 1550 – 1604 ), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Oxford theory was first proposed by J. Thomas Looney in his 1920 book Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550 – 1604.

The Monument: " Shake-Speares Sonnets " by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Other notables examples include the Roman de la Rose, a 13th-century French poem, William Langland's Piers Ploughman in the 14th century, and Jean de la Fontaine's Fables ( influenced by Aesop's ) in the 17th century.