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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
6: *[[Saint Aidan|Aidan, Saint]], (died 651)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot...
18: ... Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently in the [[Spada Gallery]], [[Rome]]. - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
65: ... blood vessels carry blood and identified venous (dark red) and arterial (brighter and thinner) blood,...
71: ...rmed a sequence of experiments and announced in [[1628]] the discovery of the human circulatory system a... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: [[Book]]s are usually printed today using the technique of [[offset printing]], and ...
11: ...d using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [...
15: ...ng press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]]
40: * [[David Bruce]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...the period were [[Christopher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], ...
11: ...e route to the east became far more difficult and dangerous. The [[Black Death]] of the fourteenth cen...
16: ...nchor'' by [[Andries van Eertvelt]], painted c. [[1628]] shows the famous carrack of [[Christopher Colum...
18: ...[Indian Ocean]] was possible. In [[1498]] [[Vasco da Gama]] made good on this promise by reaching Indi...
26: ...found the wealth it had sought in the form of abundant gold. In the Americas the Spanish found a numbe... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
5: Barbados has one of the highest standards of living and literacy rates in the world and ...
9: ...dash;like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
13: ...of the first British settlers in [[1627]]–[[1628]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbados was un...
17: ... of the leaders of this movement, Sir [[Grantley Adams]], founded the [[Barbados Labour Party]] in [[1...
21: ...e [[West Indies Federation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[Englis...
10: ...l (see [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinso...
14: ...and Latin authors, the outcome of which was, in [[1628]], his great translation of [[Thucydides]]'s [[Hi...
16: ...re, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismissed Hobbes but he soo...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the S...
6: ...n Locke|Locke]], [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] & [[David Hume|Hume]]. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes w...
16: ...ivotal point in young Descartes' life and the foundation on which he develops analytical geometry. He...
18: ...Richelieu]] in [[1627]]. He left for Holland in [[1628]], where he lived and changed his address frequen...
22: Although Descartes never married, he fathered a daughter [[Francine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: '''Samuel de Champlain''' ([[c.]][[1567]] – [[ 25 December]] [[1635]]) was a [[France|Fren...
21: ... a group of [[Iroquois]]. A battle began the next day. Two hundred Iroquois advanced on Champlain's po...
43: ...ed their journey by land. They followed the [[Oneida River]] until they found themselves at an Iroquoi...
45: ...he became lost and was forced to wander for three days living off game and sleeping under trees until ...
55: ...to the city. By the spring of 1629 supplies were dangerously low and Champlain was forced to send peo... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molec...
9: ...the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation...
11: ...]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
13: [[John Ray]] (1627–1705) was an English naturalist who published i...
17: ...fter John Ray's death [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1707–1778) was born. His great work, the ''[[Systema... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
1: ..., following the [[fall of the Roman Empire]], standard medical knowledge was based chiefly upon surviv...
7: ...hysician]] if such were available to him. The boundaries between each profession were loose and movabl...
19: ...evival of methodical medical instruction from standard texts in the west can be traced to the church-r...
66: ... For example, the seeds of Skullcap (used as a headache remedy) can appear to look like miniature skul...
68: ... famous being the Welsh, ''Red Book of Hergest'', dating from around [[1400]].
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