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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]... - 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 ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ..., [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadia...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ther of [[science]]." His experimental work is widely considered complementary to the writings of [[Fr...
10: ...the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for hi...
12: ...rived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments.
18: ...ir shipping businesses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1...
20: ...eo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Gali... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ed Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they bo...
4: ...h as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperbola|hyperbolic...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]],...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...he romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love,... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...s fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadershi...
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Vall...
13: ...[wampum]]), which were produced from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern ...
19: About [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[New Spain]]) wa... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ... all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], as well as one of the world's pre-eminent [[dramatist]]s...
4: ...re was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[tragedy]] and [[comedy]].
14: ...d on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[Eng...
19: ...n in Latin grammar and literature. The quality of Elizabethian era grammar schools was uneven. It is p...
25: ...hannes [[factotum]], is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey." (The italicised line... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
9: ...earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and t...
10: ...evices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
13: ... reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined the [[Calvini...
15: ...ry were apparently based, at least in part, on an elaborate system of mnemonics, but many of his conte...
17: ...me of his cosmological positions, titled ''Il Candelaio'' ("The Torchbearer"). - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...s early astronomy might involve a study of the [[relationships]] between the "[[height|apparent height...
4: ...ill move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.
8: ...bably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] [[social function|function]]s.
10: ...the Roman calendar, which divided the year into twelve months of alternating thirty and thirty-one day...
14: ... texts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their cont... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...x|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwi...
3: ...s to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[cartographer|m...
8: ...Seven Years War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
14: ...evements can be attributed to a combination of excellent [[seamanship]], his superior surveying and ca...
18: ...entific instrument]]s, there was no way to accurately measure it. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: ... in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]].
11: ...Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a voluntee...
15: ... Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].
19: ...h; [[Albert Einstein]] publishes his [[theory of relativity]].
35: ...[1990]] – [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], goes on trial for [[bribery]], [[embe... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - 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. - 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) - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...mdash;lies some 10,911 m (35,797 ft) below sea level.
7: ...ian ocean]]s on the west, and the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]...
9: ...[Straits of Magellan]] to the [[Philippines]], Magellan indeed found the ocean peaceful. However, the ...
15: ...margins of the wide western Pacific continental shelf.
18: ...from seawater include pelagic red clays and the skeletal remains of sea life. Terrigenous sediments ar... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...tion of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of [[science]], and asking questions about ...
7: ...us. Earlier, most natural philosophers worked in relative isolation, due to the difficulty and slownes...
9: ...ce on the peer review and publishing process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the ...
11: ...founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The Academy had an exclusive membershi...
13: ...on his condemnation in [[1633]]. The [[Accademia del Cimento]], [[Florence]] [[1657]], lasted 10 years...
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