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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: '''Christine de Pizan''' (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poe...
4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed ...
9: ...les V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. Aft...
13: ...f France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Castel]] (b. 1384), and reared him as his own; the boy...
19: ...'Livre de la paix'' (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the [[battle of Agincourt|campaign of Aginc... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
13: ... in 1342, ''Fiammetta'' in 1343 and probably the pastoral piece ''Ninfale fiesolano'' dates from this t...
17: ...misogynist ''Corbaccio'' (dated to either 1355 or 1365). Boccaccio revised and rewrote the ''Decameron''...
23: ...not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365 and travelled to Naples and then on to Padua and ...
25: ...returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to [[Pope Urban V]]. When ...
38: *''Corbaccio'' (around 1365, this date is disputed) - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
2: [[Image:astrolab.JPG|thumb|right|A 16th century astrolabe.]]
4: The '''astrolabe''' is a historical astronomical instrument and analog computer. Its man...
6: ... Persia. p163). In the [[15th Century]], a metal astrolabe was developed by [[Abraham Zacuto]] in Lisb...
8: ... the positions of stars, is free to rotate. Some astrolabes have a narrow ''rule'' which rotates over ...
10: ... rotation represents the passage of one day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...he hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christi...
7: The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the [[F...
15: ... well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
17: ...Auvergne]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Aragon]], [[Castile]], [[Germany]] and [[England]]). The English p...
19: ..., and the walls of the city. The resulting siege lasted six months, at the end of which the survivors w... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
12: ...ng governed as part of the Empire of the [[3rd dynasty of Ur]]. Assyria as an independent kingdom was ...
19: ...Hittite]] pressure, enabling [[Ashur-uballit I]] (1365-1330 BC), to again make Assyria an independent an...
31: ...nicia]]. Unlike any before, the Assyrians began boasting in their ruthlessness around this time. Ashurn...
33: ...hich could explain the great accuracy of Assyrian astronomy.]
35: ...tle of Karkar|Karkar]] (854). This led to Ahab's casting off the yoke of [[Damascus]] and allying himse...
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