An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

Edmund Halley ( 1720 ) and Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux ( 1744 ) noted independently that the assumption of an infinite space filled uniformly with stars would lead to the prediction that the nighttime sky would be as bright as the sun itself ; this became known as Olbers ' paradox in the 19th century.

A conclusive description and visualization can be found in the 1720 German translation of the French La Guerre D ' Espagne ( Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707 ), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three day turn:

He would be repeatedly promoted in Peter the Great's rapidly evolving navy, reaching the rank of second captain by 1720.

The Gex region is separated from the rest of the department by the last eastern mountain chain of the Jura where the highest elevation in the department, the Crêt de la Neige ( 1720 m ), can be found.

" In 1720, the lands of the Dean and Chapter are described to be the occupation of Alexander Bond, of Bear's Watering, in the same parish of Paddington.

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

In 1717 and 1720, storms flooded Westerburen, which had to be abandoned around 1725, prey to drifting sand and the advancing sea.

On 2 May 1720, the king knighted him, the first native artist to be knighted.

In September 1720 the Good Fortune was careened and repaired at the island of Carriacou before being renamed the Royal Fortune, the first of several ships to be given this name by Roberts.

After a period of political manoeuvring, during which time he was for a while associated with a Whig faction led by James Stanhope, from 1720 Newcastle began to identify strongly with the Government Whigs, who had quickly come to be dominated by Sir Robert Walpole.

This portrait by Charles Jervas may possibly be Nottingham when older ( c. 1720 ).

One major rabbinic contemporary who praised Luzzatto's writing was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), who was considered to be the most authoritative Torah sage of the modern era as well as a great kabbalist himself.

In 1720, though, the history of tuberculosis started to take shape into what is known of it today ; as the physician Benjamin Marten described in his A Theory of Consumption, tuberculosis may be caused by small living creatures that are transmitted through the air to other patients.

In 1720, an act was passed for the rebuilding of the church allowing for a sum of up to £ 22, 000, to be raised by a rate on the parishioners.

On December 28, 1720 in London, the House of Lords wrote: " It seems as though the French in Nova Scotia will never be good British subjects to her Majesty ...

The town's origins can be traced to Bernardo Soares de Proença, who in 1720 opened an alternative route between Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, across the Serra da Estrela.

It was placed under the civil administration of Cavite el Puerto until it was granted a right to be a separate and an independent pueblo in 1720.

Aspects of the conflict that remained unresolved would be dealt with by two further treaties, the Treaty of Frederiksborg between Sweden and Denmark-Norway in 1720 and the Treaty of Nystad between Sweden and Russia in 1721.

The treaty was formalized in 1720, and became effective when Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia issued a patent declaring the ceded area to be part of Prussia on 29 May, 1720.

Unfortunately, the missile's 3, 800 lb ( 1720 kg ) weight proved to be too heavy for the Gannet, and would have required modifications to the Gannet's bomb bay to expose the missiles ' seeker heads to the target before launch.

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