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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architec...
5: ...Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...lso the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic theme...
9: ...usanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...located in the [[Sch?rn collection]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guida...
12: ...ed the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was r...
14: ...orture device in the belief that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the ... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
7: #Delivery of [[oxygen]] and [[nutrient]]s to all parts...
8: #Collection of metabolic wastes and delivery to the excretory organs, e.g. [[kidney]]s.
15: ...ph is drawn back into the [[heart]] as the heart relaxes.
18: ...at the blood never leaves the system of blood vessels consisting of arteries, capillaries and veins.
20: ...ion]] is used, but the heart is not always completely separated into two pumps. Amphibians have a thre... - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: ...nique of [[offset printing]], and occasionally [[relief print]], (which is principally used for [[news...
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primitive ''[[Woodblock printin...
13: ...sign of his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use of raised and movable type and from t...
15: ... North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
18: ...der]] discovered [[lithography]]. [[Blake]] made relief etchings. Early in the [[nineteenth century]] ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...bot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le, and [[Ferdinand Magellan]].
3: ... relatively passive [[Mediterranean]] and sail safely on the open [[Atlantic]].
7: ...ween Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city stat...
9: ...o [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read throughout Europe.
11: ...eath]] of the fourteenth century also blocked travel and trade. The land route to the East was always ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ..., about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
5: ...tly according to the [[UN]]'s [[UNDP]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major...
9: ...ived by [[canoe]] from [[South America]] ([[Venezuela]]'s [[Orinoco Valley]]) around [[350|350 CE]]. T...
11: ...antation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...s was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of lo... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
1: '''[[Timeline]] of [[microscope]] [[technology]]'''
5: ...rel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have invented a [[Microscope|co...
6: * [[1609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with ...
8: * [[1619]] - [[Cornelius Drebbel]] ([[1572]] - [[1633]]) presents, in [[London]], ...
9: * c.[[1622]] - Drebbel presents his invention in [[Rome]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
6: ...matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was a contemporary of...
12: ... Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
14: ...obbes believed that Thucydides' account of the [[Peloponnesian War]] showed that democratic government...
16: ...Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...s a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. ...
4: ...ter and form; second, he rejects any appeal to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining ...
6: ...computer]] and by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test...
14: ... ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and ...
16: ...Descartes' life and the foundation on which he develops analytical geometry. He dedicated the rest of... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
1: ...|right|''Samuel de Champlain''<br>by Th鯰hile Hamel (1870)]]
3: ...ce to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ... on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...604]] led by [[Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts]]. He helped found the [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ...he research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680)...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
1: ...gin and cure of [[disease]] were not, however, purely [[secular]], but were also based on a [[spiritua...
3: ...te observations went hand-in-hand with spiritual beliefs as part of the practice of medicine.
7: ...edical texts, such as those by [[Galen]], were widely used on the basis of authority rather than exper...
9: ...conjunction with herbs and other remedies. Such spells had to be separated from the physical remedies,...
15: ...[[disease]]s, [[surgery]], and bone fractures as well as [[human anatomy]]. Galen wrote more than 500 ...
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