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.

Later the 17th century Icelandic bishop Guðbrandur Thorlaksson, also used the name Ginnungegap to refer to a narrow body of water, possibly the Davis Strait, separating the southern tip of Greenland from Estotelandia, pars America extrema, probably Baffin Island.

The tip of the main island's northern section is named Hennepen Point in honor of the 17th century French explorer Father Louis Hennepin.

It derived from an earlier sense of tip, meaning " to give ; to hand, pass ", which originated in the rogues ' cant in the 17th century.

Elaborating on comparisons done by Martinus ( 1996 ) and Quint ( 2000 ), Jacobs ( 2008, 2009a, 2009b ) defends the hypothesis that Papiamentu is a relexified offshoot of an early Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole variety, transferred from Senegambia to Curaçao in the second half of the 17th century, a period in which the Dutch controlled the harbour of Gorée, just below the tip of the Cape Verde Peninsula.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is in fact at around 48 ° N, as is the southern tip of the large island now called Vancouver Island, while the northern reach of the Gulf of California terminates much farther south, at about 31 ° N. It is possible that explorers and mapmakers in the 17th century could have confused the two ( if in fact they were aware of Fuca's voyage ), and in any case further exploration was inevitable.

In the 17th century, Blackwall Point ( the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall ) gained notoriety as a location where pirates ' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.

" In the 17th century the road branched off Broadway north of Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhattan to the homestead of Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland.

-Thiessow, where, according to the official report, the " Loreley " returned following the naval battle on the 17th, is the main base for Prussian pilots, and is near to the southeastern tip of Rügen, the now bare promontory of the Mönchgut peninsula, Thiessower Höwt.

The tip end of Deltaville is Stingray Point, which is commonly believed to be named from the early 17th century.

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

The rising intensity of land cultivation and the ever-increasing demand for zebu pasturage in the central highlands had largely transformed the central highlands from a forest ecosystem to grassland by the 17th century.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, massive deforestation was undertaken by the planters as the land was initially cleared for sugar cultivation.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

The Dutch, English, and French all tried to establish trading outposts on St. Lucia in the 17th century but faced opposition from Caribs whose land they were occupying.

The BBC states that squatting was " a big issue in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 and again for the Diggers in the 17th Century were peasants who cultivated waste and common land, claiming it as their rightful due " and that squatting was a necessity after the Second World War when so many were homeless.

Thus, without holding any land directly under the Holy Roman Emperors, the Liechtenstein dynasty was unable to meet the primary requirement to qualify for a seat in the Imperial diet, the Reichstag, although its head was elevated to princely rank in the late 17th century.

During the 17th century the alluvial land was converted into arable land by means of systematic drainage using a collection of drains and river diversions.

The rising intensity of land cultivation and the ever-increasing demand for zebu pasturage in the central highlands had largely transformed the region from a forest ecosystem to barren grassland by the 17th century.

The search for this great south land or Third World was a leading motive of explorers in the 16th and the early part of the 17th centuries.

By the end of the 17th century, the Russians re-established a land trade route between Europe and China under the name of the Great Siberian Road.

At the time of the Ottoman invasions in the 16th and 17th centuries the land suffered severely and was depopulated.

Boyle was an important figure in the continuing English colonization of Ireland ( commenced by the Normans ) in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he acquired large tracts of land in plantations in Munster in southern Ireland.

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Thus, the Maasai, according to their own oral history, migrated south from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in about the 15th century, arriving in a long trunk of land stretching from what is now northern Kenya to what is now central Tanzania during the 17th and 18th centuries.

During the 17th century, silver was discovered by the Spaniards in the land of the Tarahumara tribe.

The land then stayed as crown property until Parliament began selling it in the 17th century.

Langdon, on the 17th of September, in the year following, made the first entry of land recorded in the county, being the east half of the quarter named.

Despite its name, Cley has not been " next the sea " since the 17th century, due to land reclamation.

Beginning in the middle of the 17th century, a few of the settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, began using land on the east bank of the Connecticut River for grazing and farming purposes.

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the area that is today Munster was part of land claimed by France as French territory.

During the 17th century, Lord Baltimore granted George Talbot of land which included the Perryville area.

Settlements formed along Rock Creek and the Seneca Trail in the 17th Century, with recorded land grants in this area known originally as “ Dan ” and “ Leeke Forest .”