TARTINI, GIUSEPPE

(1692-1770), Ital. composer and violinist; app. solo Violinist at famous Capello del Santo, 1721, and founded a violin school in ‘Padua, 1728; best composition, The Devil's Sonata; wrote a treatise on music; discovered ‘differential tones.’ the second in dignity of the great Lamas (see Lamaism, Luasa, and Trser); acted as head of Lamaism in Tibet, on the flight of the Dalai Lama before the Brit. expedition of 1904, till his final ‘return in 1912, N., 68° 52’ E.), town, capital, Ru . Turkestan; has an observatory and museum; manufactures silk and cotton goods. Pop. 192,000. N., 68° 18’ E.), town, fort, Khulm district, Afghan Turkestan; trade center. 1603-59), Dutch sailor and explorer; commanded Van Diemen’s expedition to ' circumnavigate Australia, 1642, and ' discovered Tasmania (calling it Van Diemen’s Land), New Zealand, and _ Friendly and Fiji Islands; pub. account __of this (reprinted 1722 and_ 1860), and ~ made second voyage to East Indies, discovering the Gulf of Carpentaria; also made two important voyages of discovery in the Pacific.