...appreciation of it when it made its appearance. During the two hundred years of the transition — that is, from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenthart was in general produced in the towns and was economically sustained by them. Thus the...

...flower treatments, with tulips and carnations, which were the favourite decorative motives in Holland from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century (plate 603). Venetian leathers were usually not in relief, but were gilded and painted...

...the 'Dark *Age ofPrinting VI- JOHN BASKERVILLE Bright J^ights in the 'Dark *Age ofPrinting BOOKLOVERS from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth found their only consolation in turning to the work of the great master printers of the...

...Warships grew steadily in size and power; but the very large merchant ship fell rapidly from favour. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth a wooden merchant ship of over 700 tons was something of a rarity. 1 B. Hagedorn, Die Entwicklung dcr...

...for only a short period of time — a period much shorter than is usually imagined, extending only from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. From the moment when chords no longer serve to fulfill merely the functions assigned to them by the...

...able to extend their domination to the eastern part. They themselves soon fell to the Touareg who, from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, extended their rule from Gao and Timbuctoo to the valley of the Niger. The Peuls infiltrated into Niger...

...theory of natural science prior to the appearance of Husserl's work. The first extends approximately from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy may be considered as a representative...

...Lasswell 1941). Prussian history shows that this is not so. Prussia was almost continuously at war from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Nonetheless, policing remained decentralized. It is not the frequency of wars that...

...rest solidly on the achievements of French scientists, engineers, and public administrators active from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. Notes A/>i'iíTii¡fh>Ms Used in Ñutes AAE Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, forts...

...the middle of the seventeenth century. But there is rather less information about the middle period, from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. 7 The main emphasis of the present study will be on the early period. More specifically, an attempt...