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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1772. 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...
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    attributed to Rousseau or to Voltaire. It was first translated to English 1772 by William Hooper, and was the first utopia published in the United States:...
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    Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Dutch: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə...
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  • Wetenschappen en Kunsten i.e. Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts) and by the French-speaking academy ARB (Académie royale des sciences, des...
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    advisers changed depending on the outcome of power struggles. From 1770 to 1772, his court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee was the de facto ruler of...
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    [ɑ̃siklɔpedi]), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many...
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    1719, followed by three different flavours of constitutional monarchy in 1772, 1789 and 1809, the latter granting several civil liberties. Already during...
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    Jérôme Lalande (category Writers from Bourg-en-Bresse)
    with Helvetius, founded the "Les Sciences" lodge in Paris, and received its recognition from Grand Orient de France in 1772. In 1776, he changed its name...
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    Sam J. Lundwall (category Swedish science fiction writers)
    then) Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1830–1961 (1962) Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1772–1964 (1964) Science fiction: Från begynnelsen...
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    writers such as Cadalso or Larra (Cartas marruecas, En este país). In reality the field of "science" was not clearly distinguished from that of "letters"...
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    Johann Friedrich Struensee (category 1772 deaths)
    Lensgreve Johann Friedrich Struensee (5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772) was a German-Danish physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician...
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    with a horse bit and horse harness, by the French West India Company. In 1772 CE, a European account reported the observed use of two coaches in a procession...
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  • Bibcode:2002PopEn..23..501R. doi:10.1023/a:1016335501805. S2CID 16276258. Powledge, Tabitha M. (1996). "Genetics and the Control of Crime". BioScience. 46 (1):...
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  • The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...
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    continued to rule the province. This system of local rule was abolished in 1772 and the East India Company took complete control of the province. During...
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    epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences. There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic...
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    Louis-Sébastien Mercier (category French science fiction writers)
    en cinq actes et en prose, Paris, Lejay 1771: L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais, Amsterdam, Van-Harrevelt 1772: Le Faux Ami, drame en trois actes en...
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  • title of Imperial and Royal Academy of Science and Letters of Brussels by Empress Letters Patent dated 16 December 1772. The sovereign instructed the academics...
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    Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    until 1772. From his return to Paris in 1763 he pursued his pioneering studies in nutritional chemistry. His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when...
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    Peter Simon Pallas (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    became an associate member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. In 1772, Pallas was shown a 680-kg lump of metal that had been found near Krasnoyarsk...
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  • This is a list of atheists in science and technology. A statement by a living person that he or she does not believe in God is not a sufficient criterion...
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    Antoine Louis (category Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772))
    Georges Sauvé : « Un cours de médecine d'Antoine Petit en 1768 », in : Histoire des Sciences médicales, 1988, 22 (3-4), pp. 237–248 iubbcvb Texte intégral...
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    hospital was divided into wards. Two serious fires occurred in 1737 and 1772. The 1772 fire destroyed a large part of the Hôtel-Dieu and killed many patients...
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    Room), built by Jacques François Blondel, architect of the king, in 1765–1772. Strasbourg features a number of prominent parks, of which several are of...
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    to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773. Volume VII, p. 104 M. du Bois Aymé (1809): "Mémoire sur la ville...
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  • Étienne-Laurent-Joseph-Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe (22 July 1772, Aix-en-Provence – 13 February 1853, Aix) was a French entomologist who specialised...
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  • María Trigueros (1774). El poeta filosofo; o poesias filosoficas en verso pentametro. En la Imprenta de Don Manuel Nicolàs Vazquez, y Compañia. BBC Two:...
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    however, Gustav III managed to win him to his side. In 1772 he cooperated in the Revolution of 1772 of his elder brother, King Gustav. He was given the task...
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    throughout the 18th century; just before the first partition of Poland in 1772, the Commonwealth's population was 14 million, including around 1 million...
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    Amanita caesarea (category Fungi described in 1772)
    North Africa. While it was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772, this mushroom was a known favorite of early rulers of the Roman Empire....
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