English churchman and writer (1635–1713)
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![The plague of Athens, : which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek, by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0030143/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre : first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.
Thomas SpratDate: 1665- Books
Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier's voyage into England. Written to Dr. Wren. Professor of astronomy in Oxford / By Thomas Sprat.
Thomas SpratDate: 1665
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Two letters written in the year 1689 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, the present Lord Bishop of Rochester, to the Right Honourable the late Earl of Dorset, concerning his sitting in the Ecclesiastical Commission in the reign of K. James II.
Thomas SpratDate: [1711]
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The history of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge / By Tho. Sprat.
Thomas SpratDate: 1702
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The history of many memorable things lost, which were in use among the ancients: and an account of many excellent things found, now in use among the moderns, both natural and artificial / Written originally in Latin, by Guido Pancirollus; and now done into English, and illustrated with a new commentary of choice remarks ... from Salmuth's large annotations ... To this English edition is added, first, a supplement to the chapter of printing, shewing the time of its beginning, and the first book printed in each city before the year 1500. Secondly, what the moderns have found, the ancients never knew: extracted from Dr. Sprat's ... History of the Royal-society, the writings of the Honourable Mr. Boyle, the Royal-academy at Paris, &c. Thirdly, an index to the whole.
Guido PanciroliDate: 1715
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The case of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford in Ireland: fairly represented . Against a late partial edition of Dr. Barnard's relation, and sermon at his funeral. With Some Remarks on the Title Page, the Additional Preface, and a Scandalous and Immodest Advertisement lately set forth in a Publick Paper; whereby the said Bishop's Case is Misrepresented, and the Episcopal Order Aspersed. With a Brief Account of A Conspiracy against the Life of Mr Robert Hawkins, Minister of Chilton, Bucks, Tryed before Sir Matthew Hale. Also of the Plot of Robert Young, and Stephen Blackhead, against the Bishop of Rochester.
King, John 1652-1732.Date: 1710- Books
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Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.
Henry StubbeDate: 1670- Pictures
Westminster Abbey: monuments in the south aisle. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after F.H. Huet-Villiers, 1812.
François Hüet VilliersDate: 1 Jan.y 1812Reference: 44258i