Attempts have been made, principally founded on some remarks of Huygens, to show that Descartes had learned the principles of refraction from the manuscript of a treatise by Willebrord Snell, but the facts are uncertain; and, so far as Descartes founds his optics on any one, it is probably on the researches of Kepler. [Please select]
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Wheelwright, John, and Antinomianism, 220-224; banished, 226; at Dover, 269; settles Exeter, 269; founds Welles, 272; return to Massachusetts, 272. [Please select]
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Catholicism founds hospitals and convents, and commands charity; that is, she encourages mendicity. [Please select]
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It is invariably one individual alone who founds the new village. [Please select]