In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

* 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by William Whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world ( and which is currently available online for free download via Project Gutenberg ).

William Whiston, who created perhaps the most famous of the English translations of Josephus, claimed that certain works by Josephus had a similar style to the Epistles of St Paul ( Saul ).

* The Works of Josephus, Complete and Unabridged New Updated Edition Translated by William Whiston & A. M. Peabody, M. A.

* The Works of Flavius Josephus Translated by William Whiston ( lacks Loeb numbers )

* August 22 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( b. 1667 )

* December 9 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

William Whiston, a 17 / 18th century translator of the Antiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for Sesostris, king of Egypt, the erector of the referenced pillar in Siriad ( being a contemporary name for the territories in which Sirius was venerated ( i. e., Egypt ).

William Whiston, A. M .) book 3, section 48, mentions Akrabbim in this way: " Now as to the country of Samaria, it lies between Judea and Galilee ; it begins at a village that is in the great plain called Ginea, and ends at the Acrabbene toparchy, and is entirely of the same nature with Judea ; for both countries are made up of hills and valleys, and are moist enough for agriculture, and are very fruitful.

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In the eighteenth century Sir Edmund Halley and William Whiston ( Newton ’ s successor as Lucasian professor at Cambridge ) had theorized that one could calculate both the latitude and longitude of any position on the surface of the earth by measuring the magnetic dip of a compass needle.

', this conflicts with the biblical account which says Abraham's response was this: ' My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering ', which according to William Whiston was an allusion to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

In England this essay, which was regarded and treated as a plea for deism, caused a great sensation, eliciting several replies, from among others William Whiston, Bishop Hare, Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, and Richard Bentley, who, under the signature of " Phileleutherus Lipsiensis ", roughly handles certain arguments carelessly expressed by Collins, but triumphs chiefly by an attack on the trivial points of scholarship, his own pamphlet being by no means faultless in this very respect.

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With the permission of the Lucasian professor, William Whiston, Saunderson was allowed to teach, lecturing on mathematics, astronomy and optics.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

William Hogarth's 18th century English cartoons include both narrative sequences, such as A Rake's Progress, and single panels.

NGC 2403 was first discovered by the 18th century astronomer William Herschel, who was working in England at the time.

Toward the end of the 18th century, Charles Messier compiled a catalog containing the 109 brightest nebulae ( celestial objects with a nebulous appearance ), later followed by a larger catalog of 5, 000 nebulae assembled by William Herschel.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

The music was composed by Dr. William Boyce, and the words were written by the 18th century English actor David Garrick.

* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )

Famous visitors to Luxembourg in the 18th and 19th centuries included the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writers Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the composer Franz Liszt, and the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner.

This situation continued throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, including in the work of Michael William Balfe, and the operas of the great Italian composers, as well as those of Mozart, Beethoven and Meyerbeer, continued to dominate the musical stage in England.

From the late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute ; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1602 ) and Measure for Measure ( 1623 ).

Since 1721, every head of the Sovereign's government – with one exception in the 18th century ( William Pitt the Elder ) and one in the 19th ( Lord Salisbury ) – has been First Lord of the Treasury.

For example in the late 18th century, chief William Cleveland had a large " slave town " on the mainland opposite the Banana Islands, whose inhabitants " were employed in cultivating extensive rice fields, described as being some of the largest in Africa at the time ...."

William Stukeley continued Aubrey ’ s work in the early 18th century, but took an interest in the surrounding monuments as well, identifying ( somewhat incorrectly ) the Cursus and the Avenue.

The prosecution team was led by Tom Stewart, district attorney for the 18th Circuit ( and future United States Senator ), and included, in addition to Herbert and Sue Hicks, Ben B. McKenzie and William Jennings Bryan.

In 1765, William Blackstone wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England describing the right to have arms in England during the 18th century as a natural right of the subject that was " also declared " in the English Bill of Rights.

** William Williams Pantycelyn, one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival ( d. 1791 )

The 18th century also saw the Welsh Methodist revival, led by Daniel Rowland, Howell Harris and William Williams Pantycelyn.

The River Brethren owe their origins to the combined labors of Reformed pastor Philip William Otterbein and Mennonite Martin Boehm, beginning in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century.

Because the area had been depopulated by plague in the early 18th century, King Frederick William I of Prussia invited Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg to settle in Insterburg in 1732.

William Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806 ) was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The current holder of the earldom is William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke, which is the 10th creation of the title.

* William Alexander Sidney Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke, 15th Earl of Montgomery ( b. 1978 )

The term Pennsylvania Dutch comes from Pennsylvania German language, derived from the German Deutsch (' German '), Dutch Duits (' German '), Diets (' Dutch '): they are the descendants of Germans ( Deutsche ) who immigrated in the 18th and 19th centuries for the freedom of religion offered by William Penn, and were attracted by the rich soil and mild climate of the area.