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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
182: * [[1816]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]]
228: * [[1849]]: [[Safety pin]]: [[Walter Hunt]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
3: ...nt of the colony was the [[Mayflower Compact]], drafted and ratified by the first group of colonists a...
7: ...ected to various other terms until his death in [[1657]]. The patent of Plymouth Colony was surrendered ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
9: ... of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages a...
25: ...ary]]. [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] - named after the recently enthroned [[James I of England|Ja...
31: ...]], which was already bringing large numbers of [[Africa]]ns to the [[sugar]]-producing islands of the...
33: ...n owners sought a less rebellious form of labor - African slaves.
47: ...e the Netherlands were gaining a reputation as a safe haven for those facing persecution. The emigran... - Clock (10086 bytes)
51: ... next major development in accuracy occurred in [[1657]] with the invention of the [[pendulum clock]]. [... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
13: ...0]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
23: ...n a new city. He was not satisfied, however, and after a few months was induced by Pennsylvania Gover...
34: ...ranklin began to concern himself more with public affairs. In 1743, he set forth a scheme for an Acade...
40: ...[cgs]] unit of [[electric charge]] has been named after him: one ''franklin'' (Fr) is equal to one [[s... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
16: ... did not extend his efforts into philosophy until after [[1629]]. His employer Cavendish, then the Ear...
20: ...f the peculiar phenomena of sensation, knowledge, affections and passions whereby Man came into relati...
58: ...m|Arminian]], had met and debated with Hobbes and afterwards wrote down his views and sent them privat...
64: ...allis in a reply (''Hobbiani puncti dispunctio'', 1657). Hobbes finally took refuge in silence and there...
68: ...principles of calculus (''Mathesis universatis'', 1657). Hobbes, now with time on his hands, took it upo... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
11: ...ollège Royal Henry-Le-Grand]] at [[La Flèche]]. After graduation, he studied at the University of [[...
66: * 1657. ''Correspondance''. Published by Descartes' lite...
69: ...th an artificial female companion, named Francine after his daughter. This apocryphal story may stem f...
71: ...[Charlie Duke]] landed on [[Apollo 16]], is named after him. Also contains a mountain range named the...
78: ...[[3587 Descartes|Asteroid 3587 Descartes]], named after the philosopher - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
565: *[[Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle]], (1657-1757){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
15: ...executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two years of campaigning, the island of [...
17: ...4]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knight...
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [...
27: ...[[Greenwich, London, England|Greenwich, London]]. After the siege a new city had to be built -- the pr...
31: ...r [[slave trade|slave trading]], selling captured Africans and Turks and conversely freeing Christian ... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
13: ...n the King's library. The [[Akademie der Wissenschaften]] began in [[Berlin]] [[1700]]. Early scienti...
15: ...ly years of the [[twentieth century]], especially after the role of science in the [[World War I|first...
31: ...e]] could not continue his voyages of exploration after the emperors withdrew their support. Another f...
43: ... from any other form of inquiry, such as [[witchcraft]]. Feyerabend argued harshly against the notion ...
57: ...llaboration has continued to increase, especially after the rise of the [[Internet]], which is a centr... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
11: ...(1580–1656), [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657), and [[Edward Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advance...
17: Two years after John Ray's death [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1707&nd...
158: ...his last example, that most of the taxa are named after the type genus, ''Magnolia''. Sweetbay Magnoli... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
5: ...he apparently still served in [[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to...
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