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    John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS (12 March 1683 – 29 February 1744) was a British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected...
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    day, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Bernoulli, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and Willem 's Gravesande. The modern scientific consensus is...
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  • Wigelsworth, "Competing to Popularize Newtonian Philosophy: John Theophilus Desaguliers and the Preservation of Reputation", Isis, 2003, 94: 435–455...
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  • Coronati Lodge, the Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, which argues that John Theophilus Desaguliers likely authored the Hiram Abiff legend in the early 1720s and...
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    Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine became the first collective recipient. John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, winning three times, in 1734...
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  • Delisle de Sales Chantal Delsol Natalie Depraz Jacques Derrida John Theophilus Desaguliers Jean-Toussaint Desanti René Descartes Léger Marie Deschamps Vincent...
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  • London assisting John Theophilus Desaguliers, an acolyte of Isaac Newton and occasionally one of the Royal Society's demonstrators. Desaguliers acted as a scientific...
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    he was initiated into freemasonry (Grand Lodge of England) by John Theophilus Desaguliers at a specially convened lodge in The Hague at the house of the...
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    horse and cart in spite of the driver's efforts to proceed. Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers records, among other feats of Topham's witnessed by him, the...
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    He further served Grand Lodge as Senior Grand Warden under John Theophilus Desaguliers. Apart from being London's first, he is also the Grand Master...
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    energy). 's Gravesande's book was soon translated into English by John Theophilus Desaguliers, curator of experiments for the Royal Society. In 1721, 's Gravesande...
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  • servant with the commissioners of taxes. In 1719, they elected John Theophilus Desaguliers, a clergyman, an eminent scientist, and a Fellow of the Royal...
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    century, with the rise of such lecturer-demonstrators as John Keill, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and William Whiston, who all invented new physics apparatus...
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  • and author. Grand Secretary, Ancients Grand Lodge, 1752–1771. John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-born British naturalist and scientist. Grand Master of...
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    "Famous Masons | the Grand Lodge of Maryland". Audrey Carpenter, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England...
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    de M. de La Hire (1686). This was translated into English by John Theophilus Desaguliers in 1718 Œuvres de Mariotte (2 volumes, 1717). Réédition : J....
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    ISBN 0-9519419-3-3. "A Course of Experimental Philosophy", John Theophilus Desaguliers, 1744, Vol II p. 474. Dionysius Lardner, The steam engine familiarly...
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  • created by French-born Briton John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1784). 1758: Achromatic doublet lens patented by John Dollond (1706–1761). 1781: Discovery...
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  • successful Civil Servant. The society then passed into the care of John Theophilus Desaguliers, a scientist and clergyman, then back to Payne. In 1721, the...
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  • and astronomer Marcel Deprez (1843–1918), electrical engineer John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher (physicist) Guillaume Delisle...
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    and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction. John Theophilus Desaguliers (1734) first recognized the role of adhesion in friction. Microscopic...
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  • 5 January 1721, the youngest son of Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers. He was the grandson of Jean Desaguliers who, as Protestant pastor of Aytré, near...
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    facilitated or hindered the conduction of electrical effluvia. John Theophilus Desaguliers, who repeated many of Gray's experiments, is credited with coining...
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    (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin. Carpenter, Audrey T (2011). John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England...
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    twice, in 1718–19, and 1720–21. The year in between was taken by John Theophilus Desaguliers, a scientist, clergyman, and a pupil of Newton. Thereafter, every...
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    16th century, as illustrated by Georg Agricola (1494–1555). John Theophilus Desaguliers, a British engineer, demonstrated the successful use of a fan...
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  • John Theophilus Desaguliers John Toland John Turner (anarchist) John Veitch (poet) John Venn John von Neumann John Weckert John William Miller John Wisdom...
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  • in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French. John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), translator, major figure in British Freemasonry...
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    Planetarium – John Theophilus Desaguliers Predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus – John Couch Adams Important...
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    (1921–1997) was born in Aytré, as was Jean Desaguliers, a Protestant pastor, and father of John Theophilus Desaguliers. Industries are few, and economic activity...
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