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4 giorni fa · Voltaire (pronunciato in italiano /volˈtɛr/; in francese [vɔltɛ:ʀ]), pseudonimo di François-Marie Arouet ([fʀɑ̃swa maʀi aʀwɛ]; Parigi, 21 novembre 1694 – Parigi, 30 maggio 1778), è stato un filosofo, drammaturgo, storico, scrittore, poeta, aforista, enciclopedista, autore di fiabe, romanziere e saggista francese.
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Denis Diderot (Langres, 5 ottobre 1713 – Parigi, 31 luglio...
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3 giorni fa · The Nine Years' War [c], was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North ...
- 27 September 1688 – 20 September 1697, (8 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
2 giorni fa · Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank. The bank was privately owned by stockholders from its foundation in 1694 until it was nationalised in 1946 by the Attlee ministry . [3]
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- 27 July 1694; 329 years ago
22 apr 2024 · Voltaire (born November 21, 1694, Paris, France—died May 30, 1778, Paris) was one of the greatest of all French writers. Although only a few of his works are still read, he continues to be held in worldwide repute as a courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty.
- “Voltaire” is the pen name under which French author-philosopher François-Marie Arouet published a number of books and pamphlets in the 18th centur...
- Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer. In his lifetime he published numerous works, including books, plays, poems, and polemics. His most fa...
- Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority—religious...
- Voltaire dominated the discourse of his era. In his writing, he left virtually no subject untouched. Voltaire wrote on subjects as distinct as meta...
3 giorni fa · Although the mathematical notion of function was implicit in trigonometric and logarithmic tables, which existed in his day, Leibniz was the first, in 1692 and 1694, to employ it explicitly, to denote any of several geometric concepts derived from a curve, such as abscissa, ordinate, tangent, chord, and the perpendicular (see History of the ...
30 apr 2024 · Mary II (born April 30, 1662, London, England—died December 28, 1694, London) was the queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689–94) and wife of King William III. As the daughter of King James II, she made it possible for her Dutch husband to become co-ruler of England after he overthrew James’s government.
23 apr 2024 · The Bank of England was incorporated by act of Parliament in 1694 with the immediate purpose of raising funds to allow the English government to wage war against France in the Low Countries ( see Grand Alliance, War of the ). A royal charter allowed the bank to operate as a joint-stock bank with limited liability.
