Seventeenth

Then the telescope will reveal stars still fainter and fainter, down to what we term the seventeenth or eighteenth magnitudes, or even lower still. ❋ Various (1880)

Hand-made carpets also started to appear in seventeenth century paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Velazquez, often in formal portraits of the kings and noblemen who could have afforded them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Agricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-century England radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on an acre of land, and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s, when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Look for a contemporary act on the top twenty list and you can find Coldplay in seventeenth spot, grossing £11 million with an average ticket price of a much more modest £19; Green Day hit number 12 with £17 million on £18 tickets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Back to Warriors storylines now, which feels like light relief after being mired in seventeenth century warfare for so long. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Set in seventeenth-century Iran, The Blood of Flowers is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. ❋ Maxine (2007)

Although actual rates varied widely, in seventeenth-century Taiwan a real appears to have been worth around 56 Dutch stuivers and so was worth about two-thirds of a tael. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps because of the longstanding gold and sulfur trade, the aboriginal societies of northern Taiwan had features that were unusual in seventeenth-century Taiwan. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Maccabaeus to Joshua is clarified by remembering the role of Canaan in seventeenth British theories of governmentality. ❋ Unknown (2006)

W hen primitive newspapers first appeared in seventeenth-century London, they were just official bulletins about the doings of the monarchy. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Still, her record was impressive compared with rates in seventeenth - and eighteenth-century English villages (ranging from 10 to 29 per 1,000) or late eighteenth-century London and Dublin hospitals (generally ranging from 8 to 39 per 1,000, with some exceptionally high rates in epidemic years). ❋ Unknown (2005)

After Hobbes and Locke, the Cambridge Platonists deserve to be considered an important third strand in English seventeenth-century philosophy. ❋ Hutton, Sarah (2007)

What other surprising depictions of life in seventeenth century France did you encounter while reading the novel? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Causality and Morality: the rise of naturalism in Dutch seventeenth-century political thought, Ph.D. thesis, Utrecht University. ❋ Miller, Jon (2005)

From the efforts of Jean Talon in seventeenth-century Quebec to establish a diversified economy for New France, to the efforts of John A. MacDonald in nineteenthcentury Ottawa to establish a transcontinental railway for the Dominion, the role of the state has always been initiating. ❋ Unknown (1969)

The idea of an antithesis of sensualism and spiritualism in English seventeenth-century poetry was in the meantime developed by Werner P. Friederich's ❋ REN (1968)

This is the figure of a lady in seventeenth-century costume, holding a rose in one hand and gathering up her skirts with the other. ❋ Unknown (1900)