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    William Derham FRS (26 November 1657 – 5 April 1735) was an English clergyman, natural theologian, natural philosopher and scientist. He produced the earliest...
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  • Derham may refer to: People with the surname: Brigid Derham (1943–1980), British artist Sir David Derham (1920–1985), Australian jurist and university...
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    Robert Boyle (1,125 Parisian feet per second). In 1709, the Reverend William Derham, Rector of Upminster, published a more accurate measure of the speed...
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    The 1713 book Physico-Theology by the English cleric and scientist William Derham includes one of the earliest theoretical descriptions of a marine chronometer...
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    Saint Paul Saint Paul Cretin-Derham Hall High School (CDH) is a private, co-educational Catholic high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota operated by the Archdiocese...
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  • England clergymen such as William Turner and John Ray were well-known proponents. In the early 18th century, William Derham published his Physico-Theology...
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  • and William of Ockham. The word astrotheology, hyphenated as astro-theology, first appears in a tract by the Anglican clergyman William Derham. For Derham...
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    observers recorded barometric readings as low as 973 millibars (measured by William Derham in south Essex), but it has been suggested that the storm deepened to...
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    theology tradition. In earlier centuries, theologians such as John Ray and William Derham, as well as philosophers of classical times such as Cicero, argued for...
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    Ray.William Derham continued Ray's tradition with books such as his 1713 Physico-Theology and his 1714 Astro-Theology. They in turn influenced William Paley...
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    country to compare the rainfall in different regions, although only William Derham appears to have taken up Towneley's challenge. They jointly published...
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    this explains why Paley based much of his thought on John Ray (1691), William Derham (1711) and Bernard Nieuwentyt (1750). Paley's argument is built mainly...
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    linen-draper's shop at Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam, which was owned by William Davidson. Van Leeuwenhoek left there after six years. In July 1654 Van...
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    pitta" (in Telugu: పొన్నంకి పిట్ట). This illustration was included by William Derham at the end John Ray's posthumous Synopsis methodica avium which was...
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    1708–1709, and was the coldest European winter during the past 500 years. William Derham recorded in Upminster, Great Britain, near London, a low of −12 °C (10 °F)...
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    (1744-1829)". UCMP Berkeley. Retrieved 31 December 2014. Dampier, Sir William Cecil; Dampier, Margaret (1924). Cambridge Readings in the Literature of...
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  • positive light as it supported his personal ethical belief system. William Derham (1657–1735) continued Ray's tradition of natural theology in two of...
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    the Danish straits. According to the 18th-century natural historian William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708, the ice cover reached as...
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  • history. Notable early parson-naturalists were William Turner (1508–1568), John Ray (1627–1705), William Derham (1657–1735), and Gilbert White (1720–1793)...
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    Tobias Smollett quoted the reasoning given in the biography of Ray by William Derham: The reason of his refusal was not (says his biographer) as some have...
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    time series and making use of comparative anatomy assisted the Englishman William Harvey in his 1651 work on embryology. Armand Marie Leroi's 2014 book The...
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    Scaliger and Robert Constantine, and woodcut illustrations of plants. Sir William Thiselton-Dyer described the commentary as "botanically monumental and...
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    accurately calculated by the Reverend William Derham, Rector of Upminster, thus improving on Sir Isaac Newton's estimates. Derham used a telescope from the tower...
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    Froschoverum. Smith, Charles Hamilton (1866). "Memoir of Gesner". In Jardine, William (ed.). The Naturalist's Library Volume 20 Mammals: Horses. London: W.H...
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    history. Notable early parson-naturalists were William Turner (1508–1568), John Ray (1627–1705) and William Derham (1657–1735). Gilbert White was an English...
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    Halley points to light created before the birth of the Sun, while William Derham "compares them to openings through which shines another immeasurable...
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  • Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (b. 1656) 1735 – William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657) 1751 – Frederick I, prince...
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  • the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia in the British museum (1906) Sir William Flower (1906) The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet (rev...
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  • England clergymen such as William Turner and John Ray were well-known proponents. In the early 18th century, William Derham published his Physico-Theology...
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    January 1705, and little happened with the Historia Insectorum until William Derham and the Royal Society finally published it in 1710 in Latin, incomplete...
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