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    Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature...
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    and fruits. The genus was named for the French naturalist Abbé Noël-Antoine Pluche. Species Pluchea arabica (Boiss.) Qaiser & Lack - Yemen, Oman Pluchea...
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  • Independent Whig Alain-René Lesage's The Batchelor of Salamanca Noël-Antoine Pluche's History of the Heavens Potter's Antiquities of Greece The Tatler...
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    in the context of music criticism: in 1750, the French essayist Noël-Antoine Pluche compared the playing of two violinists, one more serene and the other...
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    was the study of natural science. The account of the ant-lion in Noël-Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, which he read in his sixteenth year, turned...
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  • Laurence Eusden, English poet laureate (died 1730) November 13 – Noël-Antoine Pluche, French natural historian and priest (died 1761) November 15 (baptised)...
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    April 2, 1798, published by John Marshall. The work was adapted from Noël-Antoine Pluche, Spectacle de la nature, and included chatty footnotes to get children...
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    (1944–1989) Solanaceae Bu Plowmanianthus Commelinaceae Bu Pluchea Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688–1761) Asteraceae Bu Plukenetia Leonard Plukenet (1642–1706)...
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  • popular. He also translated the Spectacle de la nature, by Antoine Noël, abbé de la Pluche, London, 1733, and pieces by Crébillon and La Fontaine. Stephen...
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    Basseporte furthered her connections to the scientific community through Noel-Antoine Pluche, whose Spectacle de la nature she helped illustrate, and plant physiologist...
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