Surprisingly, in the eighteenth century, horologists were already using air friction to regulate the speed of minute repeaters.
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Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
Throughout the eighteenth century, the prevailing view was that species were fixed.
In the eighteenth century, battles typically were fought, in a more or less prudent and narrow-bore fashion, to take a town or make a point.
In the eighteenth century, a French scholar discovered a manuscript of the Iliad from the tenth century A.D. that came complete with transcriptions from the marginal notes of ancient commentators.
In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
The greatly admired collection was printed more than a record forty times in the eighteenth century, and generations of composers copied the music and learned the sonata form by studying the twelve sonatas.
The art of the puppeteer, however, is passed within families strictly from father to eldest son as a secret process, which has preserved an ancient repertoire of techniques and stories supposedly originating with a travelling entertainer around the eighteenth century.
The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.
In the later eighteenth century the simple fact of losing land and becoming landless, he says, was much more significant for large numbers of people in Lowland society than it was in the Gaelic speaking Highlands of Scotland.
By the early eighteenth century, the Maroon communities controlled much of the eastern part of the island.
Although the Dainichido Bugaku was interrupted for nearly six decades in the late eighteenth century, the people of Hachimantai take great pride in the restored tradition, which is the spiritual core of their solidarity.
The reliquary floats are adorned with ornate, flower-decked wooden statues, most of which date from the late eighteenth century and depict the Easter story.
By the mid-eighteenth century, the ceremony had taken its form as a showcase for the talent of local girls.
Despite the wild fluctuations of Russian history since the early eighteenth century, not much has changed in this regard.
The earliest texts were probably composed in the early eighteenth century.
By the late eighteenth century in Europe, people were slicing their food into bite-size morsels and carrying them to their mouths with forks those formerly weird things, Wilson calls them.
By the end of the seventeenth century, refined versions of the hunting horn had made their way out of the fields, off the shoulder, and into the orchestra, and by the mid-eighteenth century most orchestras included a pair of horns.
Ben Whishaw plays the glowering Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born among the fish stalls of eighteenth-century Paris, who follows his nose and becomes the assistant to a noted Italian perfumer (Dustin Hoffman).
It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal.
Though the satiric point of making some of the plutocrats monsters out of an eighteenth-century farce eludes me, the actors try hard for vulgar panache, and they perform with professional skill.
From Velazquez in the seventeenth century, through Goya straddling the eighteenth and nineteenth, to Picasso in the twentieth, Spain has the proudest of traditions in art.
The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.
New Lanark is an eighteenth century restored cotton mill village on the banks of the River Clyde, close to the Falls of Clyde in Southern Scotland.
From the beginning, when Scottie grumpily tells Midge to turn off her eighteenth-century music, art fails to tame chaos.
As the film opens, he sits onstage before a contemporary audience and sings of an eighteenth-century Korean Romeo and Juliet.
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