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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
7: ...ected to various other terms until his death in [[1657]]. The patent of Plymouth Colony was surrendered ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...Colonies]]. Some historians add a fifth region – the [[frontier]] had certain unifying features...
22: ...had apparently disappeared in the middle of their daily tasks.
29: ...colonists to work, and befriended [[Pocahontas]], daughter of Chief [[Powhatan]], who was able to supp...
35: ... However, because rivers and [[creek]]s were abundant, this allowed the plantations to spread out. Th...
49: ...as known as Virginia - somewhere in the area of today's [[New York]]. Blown off course, they came ins... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...ct system of time measurement (''ed.'' see [[calendar]] for other measurements).
14: ..., event initiation or just to display the time of day.
43: ...s Cathedral]] installed a ‘horologe’—the word still used in French for large clocks....
47: ...ivided into four equal parts making the clocks readable to the nearest 15 minutes.
51: ... next major development in accuracy occurred in [[1657]] with the invention of the [[pendulum clock]]. [... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...'Benjamin Franklin''' ([[January 17]], [[1706]] – [[April 17]], [[1790]]) was an [[United States...
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
25: ... is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
34: ...ally became the [[University of Pennsylvania]], today a member of the [[Ivy League]]. He founded an Am...
36: ...esses. He created a partnership with his foreman, David Hill, which provided Franklin with half of the... - 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...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ...
30: ...rbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a new preface and some new notes in reply...
36: ...uman Nature (book Hobbes)|Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie]]'', and ''[[De corpore... - 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...
22: Although Descartes never married, he fathered a daughter [[Francine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[...
35: ...irst Philosophy]]'' he attempts to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that one can know as true... - 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}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...hs or years for a hand-copied letter to arrive, today scientific communication can be practically inst...
9: Nowadays, almost all modern scientists participate in a ...
11: ...ment of the [[Scientific Revolution]] was the foundation of scientific societies: [[Academia Secretoru...
13: ... Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse collection of scient...
15: ...II]], which produced such "wonder weapons" as [[radar]], [[rocketry]], and the [[atomic bomb]]. During... - 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... - 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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