Cohen pointed out ways in which the 18th-century terminology and punctuation of the 1729 translation might be confusing to modern readers, but he also made severe criticisms of the 1934 modernized English version, and showed that the revisions had been made without regard to the original, also demonstrating gross errors " that provided the final impetus to our decision to produce a wholly new translation ".

* N. W. Chittenden, ed., 1846 " American Edition " a partly modernized English version, largely the Motte translation of 1729.

After the break-up of Handel's Royal Academy in 1728, Senesino sang in Paris ( 1728 ) and Venice ( 1729 ), but was re-engaged by Handel in 1730, singing in four more new operas and in the oratorios Esther, Deborah, and, in its 1732 bilingual version, Acis and Galatea.

In the 1727 / 1729 version, this part is concluded by a four-part setting of verse 6 of the Chorale " Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht " ( Jesum laß ich nicht von mir ").

In the 1727 / 1729 version, the soloist is a bass.

Chorale: Ich will hier bei dir stehen ( 1727 / 1729 version without music and text " Es dient zu meinem Freude ")

Chorale: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß ( 1727 / 1729 version: " Jesum lass ich nicht von mir "; 1742 and 1743 – 1746 versions: Ripieno Soprano choir added to Soprano line )

The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729.

Shadwell's version was revived in 1701, in 1702 through 1704, in 1706 through 1708, in 1710, in 1712 through 1717, and more than 20 times between 1729 and 1747.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

* Italian Lazzaro Spallanzani ( 1729 – 99 ) was among early physicians to disregard Galen's theories, and in 1780 he gave experimental proof on the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.

In 1729 a seminary was opened by Antoine Court and Benjamin Duplan.

The name " methodist " was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.

Opium prohibition in China began in 1729 yet was followed by nearly two centuries of increasing opium use.

In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present day Canada.

First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1659 – 1729 ), a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

This visit was followed by the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), the man who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729.

The word " Biafra " appeared for the first time in the ancient map of Africa drawn by the Portuguese from 1492 to 1729 when it was spelt as Biafara, Biafar, and Biafares.

In 1672, Otto von Guericke ( 1602 – 1686 ), was the first human on record to knowingly generate electricity using a machine, and in 1729, Stephen Gray ( 1666 – 1736 ) demonstrated that electricity could be " transmitted " through metal filaments.

The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna ( 1698 – 1765 ) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.

Year 1729 ( MDCCXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

* August 1 – The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet on record, was discovered by Nicolas Sarabat.

Ganassa had performed in Paris in 1571 and 1572, and further transformations of the character occurred in France, where Arlecchino was performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Tristano Martinelli, Giovan Battista Andreini, and Angelo Costantini ( c. 1654 – 1729 ).

Shaftesbury's denial of the innate depravity of man was taken up by contemporaries such as the popular Irish essayist Richard Steele ( 1672 – 1729 ), who attributed the corruption of contemporary manners to false education.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

She eventually received Franco-British support for this after the Congress of Soissons ( 1728 – 1729 ).

Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762.

Thomas Newcomen ( 1664 – 1729 ) perfected a practical steam engine for pumping water, the Newcomen steam engine.

In 1729 his wife published his Atlas Coelestis, assisted by Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp, who were responsible for the technical side.

In 1729 he moved to Sevilla, staying for four years and gaining a knowledge of flamenco.

He was a brother of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1720 – 1800 ) and a cousin of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1686 – 1729 ), both Members of Parliament for County Donegal.

* S. Ramanujan, ( 1887 – 1920 ), the famous Indian mathematician, known for his work on continued fractions, number theory, and his 1729 observation

The Regency Act 1728 made Caroline rather than Frederick regent when her husband was in Hanover for five months from May 1729.

Spain asked for financial compensation, which led to the British demand to annul the " Visitation Right " agreed to in the Treaty of Seville ( 1729 ).

( Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

The French hunters, trappers, and traders appeared first and operated along the Ouachita River valley until the Natchez Massacre of 1729, which frightened away any developers for a while.

His stately furniture designs complemented his interiors: he designed furnishings for Hampton Court Palace ( 1732 ), Lord Burlington's Chiswick House ( 1729 ), London, Thomas Coke's Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Robert Walpole's pile at Houghton, for Devonshire House in London, and at Rousham.

After completion of the villa in 1729, Burlington later provided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the " Egyptian Hall " for its columns.

The Township of Derry was incorporated on August 1, 1729, when Lancaster County divided the territory for tax purposes.

Salisbury Township was carved out of Pequea Township in 1729 and named for Salisbury, England.

The city also has several gymnasiums, the oldest of which dates to 1729, a drawing school from the 19th century, a zoological garden, a centre for the promotion of livestock breeding, and an institute for sugar beet farming.

* John Williams ( minister ) ( 1664 – 1729 ), New England Puritan minister who became famous for The Redeemed Captive, his account of his captivity by the Mohawk