A General Biographical Dictionary, 2. köideWhittaker and Company, 1835 |
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... Dict . Hist . GABRIEL ( JAMES ) an eminent French architect , built the palace at Choisy . He also undertook the Pont Royal at Paris , but died before it was finished in 1686 , leaving the completion of it to his son James , and Frere ...
... Dict . Hist . GABRIEL ( JAMES ) an eminent French architect , built the palace at Choisy . He also undertook the Pont Royal at Paris , but died before it was finished in 1686 , leaving the completion of it to his son James , and Frere ...
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... Dict . Aikin's Gen. Biog . Nouv . Dict . twelfth century . He is supposed to have been Hist . a native of Lower Normandy ; and between the years 1142 and 1145 , he composed in octo - syllabic verse , a romantic chronicle of the Anglo ...
... Dict . Aikin's Gen. Biog . Nouv . Dict . twelfth century . He is supposed to have been Hist . a native of Lower Normandy ; and between the years 1142 and 1145 , he composed in octo - syllabic verse , a romantic chronicle of the Anglo ...
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... Dict . Hist . lunary bodies as had been imagined . He GALILEI ( GALILEO ) a celebrated philoso - rendered no less a service to science by his pher , mathematician , and astronomer , was investigation of the theory of motion ; and in the ...
... Dict . Hist . lunary bodies as had been imagined . He GALILEI ( GALILEO ) a celebrated philoso - rendered no less a service to science by his pher , mathematician , and astronomer , was investigation of the theory of motion ; and in the ...
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... Dict . Hist . much less complete than it would otherwise GERDIL ( HYACINTH SIGISMOND ) a Ro- have been . It appeared in 1774 in two vo- man cardinal , was born at Samoens , in Pied- lumes , with numerous engravings , and is en - mont ...
... Dict . Hist . much less complete than it would otherwise GERDIL ( HYACINTH SIGISMOND ) a Ro- have been . It appeared in 1774 in two vo- man cardinal , was born at Samoens , in Pied- lumes , with numerous engravings , and is en - mont ...
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... Dict . of Mus . Burney's Hist . of Mus . 1620 ; " Delineatio Norico veteris ejusque Confinium , " 1619 ; and " Commentarius de Septemviratu Romani Imperii , " 1621. — Moreri . GHENT ( HENRY OF ) Henricus de Gan- davo , archdeacon of ...
... Dict . of Mus . Burney's Hist . of Mus . 1620 ; " Delineatio Norico veteris ejusque Confinium , " 1619 ; and " Commentarius de Septemviratu Romani Imperii , " 1621. — Moreri . GHENT ( HENRY OF ) Henricus de Gan- davo , archdeacon of ...
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