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1 ora fa · In this article, we discuss the replication of a forgotten chemical instrument in the context of undergraduate chemistry education. Together with students, we have attempted to replicate an eighteenth century “eudiometrical” procedure. Eudiometry was the practice of measuring the “goodness” of the air by looking at the volume reduction of a sample of air when it reacts with specific ...
1 giorno fa · Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian, including regional varieties and vernacular dialects. Italian literature began in the 12th century, when in ...
1 giorno fa · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state of Great Britain ...
1 ora fa · The centrality of fashion to the fop’s aping of Frenchness enabled authors in the early years of the eighteenth century to grant the fop a chance at reformation. Just as clothes could be put on, so too could they be removed and the fop therefore, with appropriate guidance, could be elevated back to the status of man.
1 giorno fa · The Right Honourable Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg MP Official portrait, 2022 Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy In office 6 September 2022 – 25 October 2022 Prime Minister Liz Truss Preceded by Kwasi Kwarteng Succeeded by Grant Shapps Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency In office 8 February 2022 – 6 September 2022 Prime Minister Boris ...
1 giorno fa · Toponymy Etymology Scaldis ("the Scheldt") and Antverpia ("Antwerp"), Abraham Janssens, 1609, oil on panel, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Early recorded versions of the name include Ando Verpia on Roman coins found in the city centre, Germanic Andhunerbo from around the time Austrasia became a separate kingdom (that is, about 567 CE), and (possibly originally Celtic) Andoverpis in Dado's ...
1 giorno fa · In the eighteenth century there was a prevalence of Dissent with the local vicar recording in 1736 that of a population of 3358 there were 508 Presbyterians, 133 Anabaptists and 87 Quakers. By 1743 the first Baptist Chapel had been built. John Wesley's journal records preaching near the town in 1748 and on numerous occasions until 1789.
