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Hace 8 horas · In this engaging piece of detective work, Nicholas Kollerstrom has combined historical research with computer analysis to investigate long-unanswered questions about Newton’s lunar theory of 1702 (whose complete text is included). The lunar theory turns out to have been the basis for numerous eighteenth century tables, and was used in China well into the twentieth century. It was taken ...
Hace 8 horas · Vintage collector card. Ann Dvorak in Out of the Blue (1947). American actress Ann Dvorak (1911-1979) started her career as a child actress in silent films. When sound film set in, her film career started. Howard Hughes made her a star in Sky Devils (1932) and Scarface (1932). Ann Dvorak was ...
Hace 1 día · Franz Joseph was born on 18 August 1830 in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna (on the 65th anniversary of the death of Francis of Lorraine) as the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (the younger son of Francis I ), and his wife Sophie, Princess of Bavaria. Because his uncle, reigning from 1835 as the Emperor Ferdinand, was disabled by seizures, and his father unambitious and retiring, the mother ...
Hace 8 horas · Henry Lomb (1828–1908), co-founder of Bausch & Lomb. Friedrich Lürssen (1851–1916), founder of Lürssen in 1875, manufacturers of ships. Oscar Ferdinand Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer. Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), founder of former bank Mendelssohn & Co.
