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The earliest English poetical treatise on Angling by John Dennys, said to have been a fishing companion of Shakespeare, was published in 1613, The Secrets of Angling, of which 6 verses were quoted in the better known book Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler ( 1653 ), of which the latter two chapters were actually written by his friend Charles Cotton, and described the fishing in the Derbyshire Wye.
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His earliest work reflected heavy influences from English and continental writers.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.
It was confirmed in 2010 that these remains belong to her — one of the earliest members of the English royal family.
The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.
The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.
He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".
All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).
According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.
The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.
The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.
Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.
The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,
In the late mid-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from Queen Mary I, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged.
The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.
The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to " Messrs. the Great Unwashed " in Lytton's Paul Clifford ( 1830 ), as the earliest instance.
This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.
The earliest English examples of the personification of Christmas are apparently those in carols of the 15th century.
The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.
Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).
The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.
The earliest term for this in English was hony moone, which was recorded as early as 1546.
The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.
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Storm himself taught the class of Scandinavian mythology, and thus Oehlenschläger received his earliest bias towards the poetical religion of his ancestors.
The roots of written Gallo literature are traced back to Le Livre des Manières written in 1178 by Etienne de Fougères, a poetical text of 336 quatrains and the earliest known Romance text from Brittany, and to Le Roman d ' Aquin, an anonymous 12th century chanson de geste transcribed in the 15th century but which nevertheless retains features typical of the mediaeval Romance of Brittany.
He was one of the earliest and most accomplished of English water-colourists, and his works are distinguished by their fine colour and poetical feeling.
# the earliest, marked chiefly by the poetical and dramatic element, i. e. Protagoras, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Phaedo ;
The earliest edition of his collected poetical works is by Dugonics ( Pozsony and Pest, 1796 ); the first modern selection is that of Toldy, entitled Gyöngyösi István válogatott poétai munkái ( Select poetical works of Stephen Gyongyosi, 2 vols, 1864 – 1865 ); the best and complete edition is that of Ferencz Badics, entitled Gyöngyösi István összes költeményei ( Complete poetical works of Stephen Gyöngyösi, 4 vols, 1914 – 1937 ).
Here the Charites had their earliest veneration, in legend instituted by Eteocles ; musical and poetical agonistic games, the Charitesia, were held in their honour, in the theatre that was discovered in 1972.
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The decimal point notation was introduced by Sind ibn Ali, he also wrote the earliest treatise on Arabic numerals.
* Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective.
The earliest surviving recipes for gunpowder can be found in the Chinese military treatise Wujing zongyao of 1044 AD, which contains three: two for use in incendiary bombs to be thrown by siege engines and one intended as fuel for poison smoke bombs.
The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).
Significantly, the earliest surviving treatise to describe the modern movement of the queen ( as well as the bishop and pawn ), Repetición de amores e arte de axedres con CL iuegos de partido ( Discourses on Love and the Art of Chess with 150 Problems ) by Luis Ramírez de Lucena, was published during the reign of Isabella I of Castile.
About 550 AD the Christian philosopher John Philoponus wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in Greek, which is the earliest extant Greek treatise on the instrument.
Regino's earliest work was Epistola de harmonica institutione, a treatise on music which he wrote in the form of a letter to Archbishop Radbod.
Here he published his earliest work ( Historisch-kritischer Versuch über die Entstehung u. die frühesten Schicksale der schriftlichen Evangelien ), a treatise which had considerable influence on subsequent investigations as to the origin of the gospels.
Sefer Yetzirah ( Hebrew, Sēpher Yəṣîrâh " Book of Formation ," or " Book of Creation ," ספר יצירה ) is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed to Kabbalah.
* 400 BC-Hippocrates writes a treatise called Airs, Waters and Places, the earliest known work to include a discussion of weather.
The earliest known compilation of medicinal substances was ARIANA the Sushruta Samhita, an Indian Ayurvedic treatise attributed to Sushruta in the 6th century BC.
Al-Karak was the birthplace of Ibn al-Quff, an Arab physician and surgeon and author of the earliest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons.
His report was the earliest treatise of its kind in the United States that was arranged on the natural system.
This was the earliest and perhaps most influential Occitan lyric treatise.
* February 16-John Evelyn presents the basic text of his Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber to the College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning, probably the earliest treatise on forestry ( it is published in book form in 1664 ).
Russolo's treatise, The Art of Noises, is one of the earliest written documents on the use of abstract noise in the theatre.
Narada's Sangita Makarandha treatise, from about 1100 CE, is the earliest text where rules similar to those of current Hindustani classical music can be found.
The Spiegel is the earliest German organ treatise, and also the first book on musical matters to enjoy an imperial privilege ( issued by Emperor Maximilian to protect Schlick's rights ).
The earliest surviving treatise on astrology is the Yavanajataka " sayings of the Greeks " ( 3rd century ).
His earliest works in the department of Semitic philology ( Exercitationes Aethiopicae, 1825, and De emendanda ratione lexicographiae Semiticae, 1827 ) were followed by the first part ( 1841 ), mainly historical and critical, of an Ausführliche Hebräische Grammatik, which he did not live to complete, and by a treatise on the early history of Hebrew grammar among the Jews ( De rei grammaticae apud Judaeos initiis antiquissimisque scriptoribus, Halle, 1846 ).
The earliest liquid-driven escapement was described by the Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium ( 3rd century BC ) in his technical treatise Pneumatics ( chapter 31 ) as part of a washstand.
The first edition of The Tenures appeared in 1481 or 1482, being one of the earliest books printed in London and the earliest treatise on English law printed anywhere.
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