John Michell (/ˈmɪtʃəl/; 25 December 1724 – 21 April 1793) was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights into a wide...
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John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of...
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Roger Harry Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a British theatre, television and film director. He was best known for directing films such...
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John Michell (1724–1793) was an English scientist. John Michell may also refer to: John Henry Michell (1863–1940), Australian mathematician John Michell...
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analogous to black holes in general relativity. During 1783 geologist John Michell wrote a letter to Henry Cavendish outlining the expected properties of...
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Michell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Michell (1870–1959), Australian mechanical engineer Bert S. Michell (c.1882–1938)...
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Cavendish experiment (redirect from Michell-Cavendish experiment)
sometime before 1783 by geologist John Michell, who constructed a torsion balance apparatus for it. However, Michell died in 1793 without completing the...
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Keith Joseph Michell (1 December 1926 – 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his...
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strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild found the first...
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promoted to a wider audience in the books of John Michell, particularly his 1969 work The View Over Atlantis. Michell's publications were accompanied by the launch...
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to the speed of light. It had been identified in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The Schwarzschild radius of an object is proportional...
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John Michell (by 1491 – 15 October 1546) was an English politician. He was the brother of the MP, Thomas Michell. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament...
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John Mitchell (died 1445), was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament of England for City of London in 1411, 1420, 1422...
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an observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s. In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive...
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Goodwin, Author at Country Life". Obituary: John Michell, The Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2009 "John Michell, Counterculture Author Who Cherished Idiosyncrasy...
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1826. p. 2924. "No. 18343". The London Gazette. 13 March 1827. p. 596. "John Michell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013. "No. 19242". The London Gazette...
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physically related group of stars rather than any chance alignment. John Michell calculated in 1767 that the probability of a chance alignment of so many...
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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was...
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concert posters. Variations on One String (Moses Fantasy) Performed by John Michell (cello) with a pianist Problems playing this file? See media help. Eugène...
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alignments came in 1767 when English natural philosopher and clergyman John Michell became the first person to apply the mathematics of statistics to the...
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chapter of his book Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, esotericist John Michell cites Huges as pioneering the idea of trepanning in his 1962 monograph...
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G implicitly, using a torsion balance invented by the geologist Rev. John Michell (1753). He used a horizontal torsion beam with lead balls whose inertia...
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Charles Michell (17 February 1849 — 25 January 1900) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of John Michell, he was born...
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successor to the Fortean Society."[citation needed] Keel, Colin Wilson and John Michell were long-time advisors to the organization.[citation needed] The International...
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favourably with John Lennon in his memoir: "Syd Barrett could write like John. I've said it before. He wasn't quite as good as John, and I am talking...
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such as the ancient Indian gaz and the Sumerian šu-du3-a. Along with John Michell, Mackie also noted that it is the diagonal of a rectangle measuring 2...
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Edward John Michell (15 June 1853 — 5 May 1900) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of the Scottish land proprietor and magistrate John Michell, he...
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married Elizabeth Michell in 1431. She was the widow of his wealthy friend, William Fitzharry, and the daughter of John Michell. John Michell had been an alderman...
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Pickford, Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson...
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following in the thriving hippy underground scene. BBC Radio One Disc jockey John Peel championed the band early in their recording career. Peel later appeared...
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