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    Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 1793 – 29 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume...
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    The Cabinet Cyclopædia was a book series of 133 volumes, edited by Dionysius Lardner. During the first quarter of the 19th century, self-improvement literature...
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    Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault /ˈdaɪˌɒn ˈbuːsɪˌkoʊ/ (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed...
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  • Look up Dionysius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The name Dionysius (/daɪəˈniːʒəs, -ˈnɪʒ-, -ˈnɪziəs, -ˈniːziəs/; Greek: Διονύσιος Dionysios, "of Dionysus";...
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  • Lardner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859), Irish scientific writer Demi Lardner, Australian comedian...
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    Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46) support the growing view that Mary...
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    Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–1846), support the growing view that Shelley...
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  • is a list of works in the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia, edited by Dionysius Lardner. Sir Walter Scott (1830). The history of Scotland. Printed for Longman...
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    luminescence (light emission by substances not resulting from heat) Dionysius Lardner (1833). Treatise on Heat. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman...
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    overcome errors in tables by mechanisation had been a commonplace since Dionysius Lardner wrote about it in 1834 in the Edinburgh Review (under Babbage's guidance)...
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    Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner's 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–1846). Aimed at the self-educating...
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    Experimental Philosophy", John Theophilus Desaguliers, 1744, Vol II p. 474. Dionysius Lardner, The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated  One or more...
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  • tuition by Dionysius Lardner, he lived with Lardner at Bray and later in Gardiner St. and gave evidence in the divorce case of Heaviside v. Lardner, where...
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  • on Conic Sections. Published by Hodges, Foster, and Figgis. Page 290. [1] Dionysius Lardner, A system of algebraic geometry 1823, p. 261–263 [2] v t e...
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    Lalor John Hewitt Jellett John Joly William Johnston Gregorios Joseph Dionysius Lardner Sheridan Le Fanu Bartholomew Lloyd Humphrey Lloyd (physicist) Thomas...
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    pp. 295–299, Innocent III and the Fifth Crusade. Thomas Keightley, Dionysius Lardner: Outlines of history: from the earliest period to the present time...
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  • English Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 308, July 1963, pages 514–27 Dionysius Lardner (1832). History of Switzerland. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green...
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    1781, William Austin 1795, John Playfair 1826, George Phillips 1828, Dionysius Lardner 1833, Thomas Perronet Thompson 1862, Isaac Todhunter 1908, Thomas...
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  • January 1953), daughter of Count von Ziegesar and granddaughter of Dionysius Lardner. Gardiner was born in Chelsea, London and attended Harrow School....
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  • Castro Love and Marriage Augustus II the Strong The Art of Being Wrong Dionysius Lardner The Beatles' Decca audition John Sedgwick Pile, Stephen (1979). The...
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    put any of them to practice. London: Printed by J. Grismond, 1663. Dionysius Lardner: The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated; with an account of its...
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    Patterson's shipyard. Her large size (1,350 GRT) sparked controversy when Dionysius Lardner spoke to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and...
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  • experimental engine which Dionysius Lardner is allowed to operate on the Great Western Railway kills a "pupil" of Lardner. 2 February – United Kingdom...
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    cleaned. There were still many skeptics, and in 1836, scientific writer Dionysius Lardner declared that: As the project of making the voyage directly from New...
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  • (born 1967, Australia, f/ch) Valery Larbaud (1881–1957, France, f/p) Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859, Ireland/France, nf) Waciny Laredj (born 1954, Algeria...
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    1497) Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (b. c. 1532) Dionysius Lardner, ed., The History of Spain and Portugal, vol. 5, part of the Cabinet...
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  • historian and political author (tuberculosis, born 1805) April 29 – Dionysius Lardner, Irish scientific writer (born 1793) July 23 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore...
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    mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner. The original price was 5 shillings for a volume; a later reissue...
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  • Hobhouse, 1st Baronet) William Holmes MP Thomas Hood Bogdan Janski Dr Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE William Alexander Mackinnon FRS FRA MP John Martin Sir Samuel...
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  • Dunkin, listed in Bib Corn: Revision of Hand-Book of Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner. Lond., Walton & Maberley, 2nd edition 1860, 3rd edition 1867 The...
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