The phenomenon of zodiacal light was first investigated by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1683 and first explained by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1684.

Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748.

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* Mathpages: LeSage's Shadows, Omni-Directional Flux, Kinetic Pressure and Tetrode ’ s Star, Nicolas Fatio and the Cause of Gravity, Fatio, Le Sage and the camisards, Historical Assessments of the Fatio-Lesage Theory

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Jewel bearings were invented in 1704 for use in watches by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Peter Debaufre, and Jacob Debaufre, who received an English patent for the idea.

Characters include Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and sundry other Europeans of note during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ( alternative names are Facio or Faccio ) ( 26 February 1664 – 12 May 1753 ) was a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the zodiacal light problem, for his very close relationship with Isaac Newton, for his role in the Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy, and for originating the " push " or " shadow " theory of gravitation.

For example: his main work on Gravitation ; a history of theories of gravitation ; a treatise on final causes ; a biographical note on Nicolas Fatio de Duillier.

The theory now called “ Le Sage ’ s theory of gravity ” was originally proposed in the 1690s by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, a friend of Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens.

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

The decree was presented by telecommunication minister Nicolas Sahnaoui.

On 4 November 2009, she was invested as a Chevalier of the Ordre National de la Légion d ' Honneur by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and presented by the Ambassador of France to Australia, Michel Filhol.

" French President Nicolas Sarkozy personally presented Shalev with the award in a special ceremony at the Elysee Palace.

It was copied by the famous calligraphist Nicolas Jarry in a magnificent manuscript, on each page of which was a flower painted by Nicolas Robert, and was presented to Julie on her fête day in 1641.

Philip dresses his best, in an extravagant chaperon ( headgear ) | chaperon, to be presented with a History of Hainault by the author, flanked by his son and Nicolas Rolin.

In October 1920, 25½ acres of land at Kings Norton ( just below St Nicolas ' Church ) were purchased by the Birmingham Civic Society and afterwards presented to the city for the benefit of the citizens of Birmingham.

* Kate Beckinsale and Nicolas Cage — presented Best Action Sequence

When Scott presented these conclusions in his doctoral dissertation, defended on 16 June 1968 before a panel of eminent Filipino historians which included Teodoro Agoncillo, Horacio de la Costa, Marcelino Foronda, Mercedes Grau Santamaria, Nicolas Zafra and Gregorio Zaide, not a single question was raised about the chapter which he had called The Contributions of Jose E. Marco to Philippine historiography.

Following the premiere of a joint new production by director Nicolas Joël at the Royal Opera House in 2002 ( starring soprano Angela Gheorghiu as Magda ) and at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, La rondine was seen at the Théâtre du Châtelet, revived at the Royal Opera House in 2005, and presented by the San Francisco Opera in 2007, all with Gheorghiu.

Tissot ’ s indicatrix ( Tissot indicatrix, Tissot ’ s ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion ) is a mathematical contrivance presented by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize distortions due to map projection.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

* 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867.

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

The first such addition came from Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921, who added Messier 104 after finding Messier ’ s side note in his 1781 edition exemplar of the catalogue.

This office was first held by Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, who had 44 commissaires de police ( police commissioners ) under his authority.

In Western culture, the contemporary concept of a police paid by the government was developed by French legal scholars and practitioners in the 17th and early 18th centuries, notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police (" Treatise on the Police "), first published in 1705.

The first phospholipid identified as such in biological tissues was lecithin, or phosphatidylcholine, in the egg yolk, by Theodore Nicolas Gobley, a French chemist and pharmacist, in 1847.

The first possible historical reference to the vase is in a 1601 letter from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy.

The first French translation, of 464 quatrains in prose, was made by J. B. Nicolas, chief interpreter at the French Embassy in Persia in 1867.

The coastline of South Australia was first mapped by Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in 1802.

Crystal symmetry was first investigated experimentally by Nicolas Steno ( 1669 ), who showed that the angles between the faces are the same in every exemplar of a particular type of crystal, and by René Just Haüy ( 1784 ), who discovered that every face of a crystal can be described by simple stacking patterns of blocks of the same shape and size.

** Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

* June – Nicolas Appert publishes L ' art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales ou végétales, the first description of modern food preservation using airtight containers.

He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of " police " of Paris.

The comet was first named in his honour by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1759.

The first page of The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 and set in the Golden type, inspired by the 15th century printer Nicolas Jenson

Guillaume de Saint-Amour, Gérard d ' Abbeville, Henry of Ghent, Guillaume des Grez, Odo or Eudes of Douai, Chrétien de Beauvais, Gérard de Reims, Nicolas de Bar were among the most illustrious scholars connected either with the first chairs in the Sorbonne, or with the first association that constituted it.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792.

Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.

* 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment.