Sentences with phrase «end of the seventeenth century»

Thomas Sprat, writing in his History of the Royal Society (founded to facilitate new scientific discovery at the end of the seventeenth century), announced the grand expulsion.

Miola goes on to mention a series of plays «at the end of the seventeenth century... about the popish plot and the execution of Titus Oates, a Catholic conspirator.»

General scientific tendencies since the end of the Seventeenth Century.

The main philosophic difficulty that the Syllabus faces comes out in «General scientific tendencies since the end of the Seventeenth Century.

The significance of Othello's status as a tragic hero may be easily gauged from a criticism of the play made by Thomas Rymer at the end of the seventeenth century.

Even before the end of the seventeenth century it was becoming clear that some revision of this scheme of matter, space, time, and motion was necessary.

In the philosophy of nature which was generally accepted by scientists after the end of the seventeenth century, the concepts of matter, substance, and body were identified.

By the end of the seventeenth century nature was in general conceived as a mechanism, which meant that nature could in principle be completely understood in terms of the motion, i.e., locomotion, change of place, of pieces of matter, usually referred to as «bodies.»

Sure, a millennia or two ago, kings could do as they pleased and seize whatever they wanted or desired, whenever they wanted, but not so by the end of the seventeenth century.