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1. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
   2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
   4: ... best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific revolution]]. His works esta...
   8: ...Nicholas Bacon]], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His moth...
   10: ...ge of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
   16: ...ce]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.

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1. History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
   1: ...premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[logic]]), [[empiricism...
   7: ...odern" is a word with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the sp...
   10: ...ents were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[Anaximander]] ("All is air").
   12: ... parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleatics]] [[Parmenides]] and [[Zeno of Elea|Zeno]] (All is One and chan...
   14: ... the subjects and methods of debate became highly developed.
2. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
   7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
   9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
   11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
   16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
   18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish...
3. Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
   1: ...he scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' by [[Nicolaus ...
   3: ...nly were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more importantly, the way in ...
   7: ...as; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these ...
   9: ...tially as it is understood and practiced in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other nar...
   15: ... (This and Galen's anatomy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contr...
4. Greek language (35285 bytes)
   9:    '''Modern Greek'''
   13: ...story of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
   17: ...n the armies and conquered territories of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colon...
   21: ...poken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
   32: ... since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets d...
5. Cartography (10500 bytes)
   1: ...s into one of three main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS...
   7: ... map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emphasized topological relationships such ...
   9: ...flooding of the [[Nile]] obscured the property borders.
   11: ...rence of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
   13: ...le]] later provided arguments in support of this idea. Those arguments can be summarized as follows:
6. Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
   1: ...y]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
   5: ...ist with no satisfactory solution. Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficu...
   7: ...ages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
   9: ...plete, also (with relics and artifacts missing or destroyed). Egyptian chronology is in a constant sta...
   13: ...phres Era'' may radically modify the prevailing modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dat...
7. Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
   1: ...e outermost part of the [[Earth]]'s interior is made up of two layers, the outer [[lithosphere]] and t...
   3: ...ay from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|vol...
   5: ...r [[chemistry]], the discovery of the [[genetic code]] for [[genetics]], or [[evolution]] in [[biology...
   8: ...the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motion in different directions.
   10: ...famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
8. Continental drift (4518 bytes)
   3: ...]. The idea of continental drift did not become widely accepted as [[theory]] until the [[1950s]] in E...
   5: ...tectonics]]''' for information on current ideas underlying concepts of continental drift.
   11: == Evidence for continental drift ==
   14: ...ca]], and [[Antarctica]]. There is also living evidence - the same animals being found on two continen...
   16: ...hich inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continental drift.
9. Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
   10: ...rgestCity = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] |
   11: Governor = [[Ed Rendell]] |
   21: DensityRank = 10^th |
   22: 2000Density = 105.80 |
   23: AdmittanceOrder = 2^nd |
10. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
    4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
    6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
    11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
    13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ...
11. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
    36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
    49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
    117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
    137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]])
12. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ... [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Arist...
    7: ...610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
    10: ...ion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
    12: ...00s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustr...
    14: ... rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precisi...
13. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...fried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they...
    4: ...a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in t...
    6: ...ped a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the rate of cooling of objects when expos...
    12: ...ief biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life a...
    14: ... said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months bef...
14. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
    4: ... best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific revolution]]. His works esta...
    8: ...Nicholas Bacon]], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His moth...
    10: ...ge of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
    16: ...ce]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
15. List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
    3: ==Political leaders==
    12: **[[Cosimo de' Medici]]
    13: **[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
    22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
    23: ...f Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]])
16. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    7: ...[[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
    23: *[[1624]]-[[New Netherlands]] founded by the [[Dutch West India Company]] in present-d...
    24: *[[1626]]-[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]]
    25: *[[1629]]-[[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] founded, led by [[John Winthrop]]
    29: *[[1634]]-[[Province of Maryland]] founded
17. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    4: To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typicall...
    9: ... the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
    11: ...on and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Centr...
    16: ...mercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respec...
    22: ...ir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in Englan...
18. Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
    1: ... Gaulle. For the [[Paris]] airport, see [[Charles de Gaulle International Airport]]''
    4: ...; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 85%;"
    5: |+ <big><big>'''Charles de Gaulle'''</big></big>
    7: ...nd:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:DeGaullePortrait.jpg|180px]]
    10: | [[President of France]]
19. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    4: ...ualled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world ...
    8: ...ence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakes...
    12: ...t through the study of considerable historical evidence.
    14: ...haps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [...
    17: ...an [[alderman]]. Some evidence exists that both sides of the family had [[Roman Catholic]] sympathies....
20. Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
    10: ...ents arising out of the ambitions of [[Pope Alexander VI]] and his son, [[Cesare Borgia]], and these c...
    12: ...turned to [[Sant'Andrea in Percussina]], where he devoted himself to literature. He died in Florence i...
    15: ...because the Catholic church put the work in its Index &ndash; a list of books against the faith.
    19: === A critical reading on where Modernity in Politics starts ===
    21: ... his position. And that is the whole point with Modern politics.

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