: Enthusiasm for the naturalistic study of nature picked up in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as more and more Christians turned their attention to discovering the so-called secondary causes that God employed in operating the world.

A small number of Indians were baptized as Christians by Anglican ministers throughout the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Ursinus's collected catechical lectures ( Het Schatboeck der verclaringhen over de Catechismus ) was one of the most prominent theological handbooks among seventeenth century Reformed Christians and was especially popular in the Netherlands.

Protracted conflict through the seventeenth century with more radical Protestants on the one hand and Roman Catholics who still recognised the primacy of the Pope on the other, resulted in an association of churches that were both deliberately vague about doctrinal principles, yet bold in developing parameters of acceptable deviation.

The descendants of some of the Bandanese who fled Dutch conquest in the seventeenth century live in the Kai Islands ( Kepulauan Kei ) to the east of the Banda group, where a version of the original Banda language is still spoken in the villages of Banda Eli and Banda Elat on Kai Besar Island.

The origin of the goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, who in the seventeenth century, after having constructed a successful mechanical calculating machine, dreamt of building a machine that could manipulate symbols in order to determine the truth values of mathematical statements.

The seventeenth verse of the chapter prohibits those who join gods with Allah — polytheists — from entering mosques:

The teleological argument was continued by empiricists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who believed that the order in the world suggested the existence of God.

The Abron kingdom of Jaman was established in the seventeenth century by an Akan group, the Abron, who had fled the developing Asante confederation in what is present-day Ghana.

Yes released their seventeenth studio album, Open Your Eyes, in November 1997 on the Beyond Music label, who ensured that the group had greater control in packaging and naming the album.

The region served as a stronghold for the Protestant Huguenots during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who suffered persecution at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church.

Merwin, who was the country's seventeenth Poet Laureate.

Meanwhile, Thomasina ( who is approaching her seventeenth birthday at this point ) asks Septimus to teach her to dance.

Houston's ancestry is often traced to his great-great grandfather Sir John Houston, who built a family estate in Scotland in the late seventeenth century.

Margaret Atwood is part of a long line of women with feminist involvement: she is related to Mary Webster, who survived being hanged for witchcraft in Connecticut in the seventeenth century.

In seventeenth century England, Irish Dr. Peter Blood ( Errol Flynn ) is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who had participated in the Monmouth Rebellion.

The region was originally occupied by the Lenni Lenape people who greeted European settlers in the seventeenth century with amity and kindness.

* Johannes Kelpius, a German intellectual, musician, and mystic who founded a religious community when he immigrated to the American colony of Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century

Bellmore was settled primarily by Englishmen who crossed the Long Island Sound from Connecticut in the middle of the seventeenth century.

O ’ Neill believes that Hobbes ( who had instructed Charles in philosophy ) had significant influence on Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy and notes that Cavendish was among the few seventeenth century supporters of Hobbes ’ materialist philosophy, which argued that incorporeal souls do not exist in nature.

The Bollandists are an association of scholars, philologists, and historians ( originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits ) who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.

The island was known as O ' Sullivan's Island because of Captain Florence O ' Sullivan, who was stationed here as a lighthouse keeper in the late seventeenth century.

27 ; the modern form of the name is Perooz, Piruz, or the Arabized Ferooz, Firuz ; Persian: پیروز " the Victor "), was the seventeenth Sassanid King of Persia, who ruled from 457 to 484.

It is also known as the Bedford Level, after Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who headed the so-called adventurers ( investors ) in the seventeenth century drainage in this area ; his son became the first governor of the Bedford Level Corporation.

Of course Macaulay thought that the Whigs of the seventeenth century were correct in their fundamental ideas, but the hero of the History was William, who, as Macaulay says, was certainly no Whig ... If this was Whiggism it was so only, by the mid-nineteenth century, in the most extended and inclusive sense, requiring only an acceptance of parliamentary government and a sense of gravity of precedent.

Other important mathematical physicists of the seventeenth century included the Dutchman Christiaan Huygens ( famous for having suggested the wave theory of light ), and the German Johannes Kepler ( Tycho Brahe's assistant who discovered the equations for planetary motion ).

* St. Jean de Lalande SJ, a seventeenth century Jesuit brother who was martyred by the Iroquois Indians in present-day New York State

If you have taken this stroll in the morning, and you have the time and inclination, walk to the right along the crowded Corso for half a dozen blocks to visit the fine private collection of paintings -- mainly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- in the Palazzo Doria ( open Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 10:00 to 1:00 ).

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though advances in the science were not made until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

England might have become a more " Puritan absolute monarchy ", as " existed in Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and Prussia in the seventeenth century ", rather than following the path of parliamentary and civil reform that it did.

However, there are no further occurrences of the names George, Richard, and Avys in his family which would have been unusual in the seventeenth century.

Moncacht-Apé, a Native American explorer, may have traveled from near the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Atlantic, and from there to the coast of the Pacific Northwest, sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

Since the beginning of modern philosophy during the seventeenth century, problems that were not originally considered within the bounds of metaphysics have been added to its purview, while other problems considered metaphysical for centuries are now typically subjects of their own separate regions in philosophy, such as philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.

There never seems to have been a clear definition of what was what ; there were apparently far fewer staff-weapons in use than there were names to call them by ; and contemporary writers up to the seventeenth century use these names with abandon, calling different weapons by the same name and similar weapons by different names.

This service setting, which includes an organ part, must have been sung by the Chapel Royal Choir on major liturgical occasions in the early seventeenth century, though its limited circulation suggests that many other cathedral choirs must have found it beyond them.

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of English descent and in upstate New York also in some cases of Dutch descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

The Dakota are first recorded to have resided at the source of the Mississippi River during the seventeenth century.

Ahhotep I, lauded as a warrior queen, may have been a regent between the reigns of two of her sons, Kamose and Ahmose I, at the end of the seventeenth dynasty and the beginning of Hatshepsut's own eighteenth dynasty.

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of Scots-Irish and / or English descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of English descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of English descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

Tomé was originally founded by and name for Tomé ( or Thomé ) Dominguez de Mendoza in the seventeenth century ; after the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion and the Reconquest a dozen years later, none of the Dominguez family ( all of whom survived ) seem to have chosen to return, so just before the middle of the next century the land was granted to other persons, largely genizaros ( Indians converted to Christianity and living a Spanish lifestyle ).

Now in the hands of the National Trust and open to the public from spring to autumn, it is presented as a typical seventeenth century yeoman's farmhouse ( or as near to that as possible, taking into account modern living, health and safety requirements and structural changes that have been made to the house since Newton's time ).

The national press were already predicting a bright future for the teenager, and though he could have then joined any club in the country, he signed as a professional with Stoke on his seventeenth birthday.

He went on to complain that " in no part of Scotland, indeed, has the belief in Fairies maintained its ground with more pertinacity than in Selkirkshire " and describes a story " implicitly believed by all " said to have occurred in the seventeenth century on Peat Law, to the east of Foulshiels Hill:

" International currencies in the past have included the Chinese Liang and Greek drachma, coined in the fifth century B. C., the silver punch-marked coins of fourth century India, the Roman denari, the Byzantine solidus and Islamic dinar of the middle-ages, the Venetian ducato of the Renaissance, the seventeenth century Dutch guilder and of course, more recently, sterling and the dollar .”

They are believed to have further migrated to the lower northern part of the region in the seventeenth century.