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Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1995); on color and optics, Michel Blay, "Castel Critique de la Théorie Newtonienne des Couleurs," in "Autour du père Castel et du clavecin oculaire," ed.
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Terms & French Expressions: la sécheresse cutanée/oculaire = dry skin/eyes dire quelque chose avec sécheresse = to say something curtly
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Terms & French Expressions: la sécheresse cutanée/oculaire = dry skin/eyes dire quelque chose avec sécheresse = to say something curtly
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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His informant was "vne personne digne de foy, qui a este tesmoin oculaire de tout ce qu'il a soufiert pendant sa captiuite."
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858
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[318] Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757), most of whose life was spent in trying to perfect his _Clavecin oculaire_, an instrument on the order of the harpsichord, intended to produce melodies and harmonies of color.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Father Castle, a Jesuit, author of the Clavecin oculaire. 7 7
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Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions, and keeper of the medals of the king's cabinet; and Father Castel, a Jesuit, author of the 'Clavecin oculaire'. -- [ocular harpsichord.]
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions, and keeper of the medals of the king's cabinet; and Father Castel, a Jesuit, author of the 'Clavecin oculaire'. -- [ocular harpsichord.]
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 07 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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la sécheresse cutanée/oculaire = dry skin/eyes dire quelque chose avec sécheresse = to say something curtly
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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The first of these is described at length by the knight Merri Dupuis "temoin oculaire" who sets down: "Je,
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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