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...s, alcohol by volume is referred to as '''degrees Gay-Lussac''' (after the French chemist [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]]). France, Spain and the United Kingdom In mid-19th century England, the use of letter "X" and other ones had evolved into a standardiz ...

...actions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios<ref group="Note">ratios of 1 between mag ...irst practical realisation of the metric system came in 1799, during the [[French Revolution]], after the existing system of measures had become impractical ...

...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

...ermodynamic work, the caloric theory was, around the end of the eighteenth century, replaced by the "mechanical" theory of heat, which is accepted today. === 17th century–early 18th century === ...

...ysics)|period]] of [[Cepheid]] [[variable stars]] at the beginning of 20th century. :[[Merieme Chadid]] is a French and Moroccan astronomer and explorer who discovered hypersonic shock waves ...

...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...st 1915"}} She then joined the [[sixth form]] and won the school prize for French in December 1916.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 16 December 1916"}}{{Efn|Dent's siste ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...]]s which describe the motion of [[viscous fluid]] substances, named after French engineer and physicist [[Claude-Louis Navier]] and Anglo-Irish physicist an ...