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    Prokop Diviš O.Praem. (Czech pronunciation: [ˈprokop ˈɟɪvɪʃ]; 26 March 1698 – 21 December 1765) was a Czech canon regular, theologian and natural scientist...
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  • Diviš, Czech footballer Lukáš Diviš, Slovak volleyball player Richard Diviš, Czech hockey player Petra Divišová, Czech footballer Václav Prokop Diviš...
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    technology. The first was the Denis d'or stringed instrument, made by Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748, with 700 electrified strings. In 1760, Jean Baptiste Thillaie...
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    Barnabite meteorologist, astronomer, and director of Vatican Observatory Václav Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) – Czech priest who studied electrical phenomenons and...
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  • instrument in history that involved electricity. The Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš, who had his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo, was...
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  • type was the Denis d'or stringed instrument, which was built by Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748. It had 700 strings temporarily electrified to enhance their...
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  • Cori, biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate Leander Czerny, biologist Václav Prokop Diviš, priest, scientist and inventor Josef Dobrovský, philologist and...
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    or "lightning catcher" installed on the roof ridge. In that time Václav Prokop Diviš, a clergyman in Přímětice near Znojmo, had studied plant growth and...
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    Lightning Lightning rod fashion The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Václav Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) – Constructor of the first grounded lightning rod, in...
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    17 – Lady Jane Douglas, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1753) March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765) April 1 – Steven...
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