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Hace 2 días · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
Hace 2 días · Leonhard Euler ( / ˈɔɪlər / OY-lər, [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhart ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many oth...
Hace 5 días · Jonathan Swift (born November 30, 1667, Dublin, Ireland—died October 19, 1745, Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).
- Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author who is regarded as one of the foremost prose satirists in the history of English literature. He wrote essa...
- Jonathan Swift’s father, Jonathan Swift the elder, was an Englishman who had settled in Ireland after the Stuart Restoration and become steward of...
- Jonathan Swift is best known for Gulliver’s Travels, which is a parody of a travel narrative. Published in 1726, it mocks English customs and the p...
Hace 2 días · The university played an important role in Edinburgh becoming a chief intellectual centre during the Scottish Enlightenment and contributed to the city being nicknamed the "Athens of the North". [7] [8] The three main global university rankings ( ARWU, THE, and QS) all place Edinburgh within their respective top 40.
Hace 3 días · November 1726, 1–15. Nov. 1. Spanish. Town, Jamaica. 317. President Ayscough to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Encloses duplicate of Oct. 2nd etc. The Assembly met the 18th past etc. Refers to Speech enclosed.
Hace 2 días · 1726-1730: All quiet at San Antonio; no raids. 1730: 56 Canary Island settlers arrive at San Antonio; are offered land west of presidio but deem area too exposed to Lipan raids. Settle between presidio and mission. Found villa of San Fernando de Béxar. 1730: The Lipan Apache declare war on San Antonio; attacks escalate on anyone who ...
In 1716 he was made vice-admiral and on several occasions was in command of a fleet, notably in 1727–8 when he blockaded Cadiz. In 1731 he was promoted to be admiral. Two years later he was made a privy councillor and first lord of the admiralty, (fn. n90) a position which he held until 1742. He died in 1743.
