in humanities and social science joined the association: École française d'Extrême-Orient, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), École...

ancient Rome. The gesture was first associated with ancient Rome in the 1784 painting The Oath of the Horatii by the French artist Jacques-Louis David...

the Cambridge faculty of the day. Beyond his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of alchemy and biblical...

science. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval Room (1784), which was built behind the house of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778)...

Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808...

Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, 1749–1783 Johan Carl Wilcke and Henrik Nicander, 1784–1796 Daniel Melanderhjelm and Henrik Nicander, 1796–1803 Jöns Svanberg and...

simples" First page of a 1821 copy of "Théorie des machines simples" In 1784, his memoir Recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la force de torsion...

1778-1784: Theatre complet de M. Mercier. Tome premier; Tome second; Tome troisieme; Tome quatrieme, Amsterdam 1778: Le déserteur, drame en cinq actes en prose...

at least four Anglo-Dutch wars: 1652–1654, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 and 1780–1784. Competition arose in 1635 when Charles I granted a trading licence to Sir...

The 2nd Bombardment of Algiers took place between 12 and 21 July 1784. A joint Spanish-Neapolitan-Maltese-Portuguese fleet commanded by the Spanish Admiral...

Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783–1784 : With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads...

"toujours regarde comme malheureux" ("always looked upon as unlucky"). In 1784, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf cites Gébelin, and reaffirms that the...

Christian Daniel von (1792) [Chapter on The Squirrel first published in 1784]. "Der Springer" [The Squirrel]. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur...

of food science", described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers". Appert was born in Châlons-en-Champagne...

submitted his findings of the composition of water to the Académie des Sciences in April 1784, reporting his figures to eight decimal places. Opposition responded...

the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers...

reproduction végétative le rend en quelque sorte très longévif, le premier individu introduit aux États-Unis en 1784 étant toujours présent grâce à ses...

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 1783 Sur l'attraction des Sphéroïdes homogènes (work on Legendre polynomials) 1784 Recherches sur la figure des...

The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...

César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer...

Promoted to lieutenant general on 27 October 1784, he was appointed colonel of the Coldstream Guards on 28 October 1784. He was created Duke of York and Albany...

great theodolite constructed by Jesse Ramsden for the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) linking the observatories of Paris and Greenwich. June – William Symington...

and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians...

Hereditary Prince Frederick, and the Danish politician Ove Høegh-Guldberg. From 1784 until Christian VII's death in 1808, Christian's son, later Frederick VI...

polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts...

Britain re-organised the territory into the Province of Quebec. In 1782–1784, 5,000 United Empire Loyalists entered what is now Ontario following the...

ISBN 978-1-84753-201-5 (Amazon) v t e Voyage de Balzac et Mme de Berny A Guérande en pyroscaphe. En ce printemps 1830, Balzac fêtait le succès des « Chouans », premier...

Johannes Kepler. In 1784 the scientific community was first formally organized under the charter of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences. Currently, this...

of Ranunculaceae in 1773 to the Académie des Sciences led to his election as a member that year. In 1784 he was appointed to a Royal Commission by Louis...

March 1808 to 7 February 1814. He was the last king of Denmark–Norway. From 1784 until his accession, he served as regent during his father's mental illness...