Venice
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Venise · فونيز
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
City where Anthony converted to Judaism.
Seeing by what strange fatality his life was not in safety, either among Papists or Protestants, he went to Venice and turned Jew.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The historical maritime republic of Venice, repeatedly cited as evidence that free importation, not prohibition, produces commercial wealth.
This principle, and not prohibition, was the basis of Carthaginian, Venetian and Dutch commercial prosperity;
Venice and Holland became rich, by importing manufactures;
The examples of Venice and Holland are modern;
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The city where the footnote places Galileo's invention of the first magnifier in 1609.
In Venice « Venise », in the year 1609, he invented the first magnifier by means of which it became possible to know the states of the moon.