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    John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS (12 March 1683 – 29 February 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 his teaching, were continued after 1710 by his student John Theophilus Desaguliers. The methods both used were instrumental in popularising Newtonian...
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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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  • been members of the nobility. Desaguliers is often described as the "father" of modern freemasonry. It was Desaguliers who inscribed the dedication to...
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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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    northeast France. One year later, with another past Grand Master, John Theophilus Desaguliers, he assisted in inaugurating a lodge in the hotel at Rue Bussy...
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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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  • 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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    were mathematician Erasmus King, and young Thomas Desaguliers, son of Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers. Baltimore was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for...
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  • discovers Steller's sea cow (extinct by 1768). Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers January 20 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died...
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  • second PhD in 2010, on John Theophilus Desaguliers: her thesis title was "Ingenious Philosopher: John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), popularizer...
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  • servir à l'histoire des insectes in Amsterdam. Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers January 23 – Wolfgang von Kempelen, Hungarian inventor (died...
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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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    freemason of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, active alongside John Theophilus Desaguliers. In 1742 a union of parties resulted in the formation of an administration...
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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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    He was a patron of new forms of leisure, style and taste. He commissioned John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and remodel Buckingham Palace...
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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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    Journals of the House of Lords, vol. 26. Carpenter, Audrey T. John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England...
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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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  • voluntary general hospital in the English provinces. Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers January 19 – James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (died 1819)...
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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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  • late-18th century the trick was so well known that in 1780, John Theophilus Desaguliers used the trick to demonstrate hydrostatics. It remained a standard...
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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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    "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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    Rothschild & Sons. From 1811 on, in negotiation with Commissary-General John Charles Herries, he undertook to transfer money to pay Wellington's troops...
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