He died in 1280, aged seventy-four.
He paid special attention to comets, and that of 1815 (period seventy-four years) bears his name in commemoration of its detection by him.
So exercised was the mind of the religious world over the dispute that in July 1717 as many as seventy-four pamphlets made their appearance; and at one period the crisis became so serious that the business of London was for some days virtually at a stand-still.
This settlement lasted for about seventy-four years.
The other half canton is that of Basel Landschaft or Bale Campagne, which is divided into four administrative districts and comprises seventy-four communes, its capital being Liestal.
