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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...he most influential women in British history, largely as a result of her close friendship with [[Anne ...
4: ...reatly. In [[1711]], both Sarah and her husband fell out of royal favor. Anne's death in [[1714]] re...
8: ...istress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset|The Duchess o... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...sh to extend it into the [[18th century]]. Nevertheless, the basic themes of the revolution are readil...
3: ...he century, science was highly [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathe...
9: ...ought, and to many other observers, it seems entirely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took plac...
15: ...ary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less impo...
20: *Uniform acceleration of falling bodies (Galileo) - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
11: *[[Paolo Uccello|Uccello, Paolo]], (1397-1475), Italian painter
26: ...harlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
49: ...Miguel de]], (1864-1936), : ''Niebla'', ''San Manuel Bueno Martir''
56: ..., Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress - 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]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...ations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained appointment as Professo...
6: ... as the chief assistant of [[Christopher Wren]], helping to rebuild London after the [[Great Fire of L...
12: ...hor escapement represented a major step in the development of accurate watches. The balance spring a...
14: ...multiple lenses (usually three - an eyepiece, a field lens and an objective). While he did give much a...
16: ...t [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian]] [[reflecting telescope]] and the discovery of the first [[binary s... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with ...
6: ... college at the time was [[John Owen]], vice-chancellor of the university and also a [[Puritan]]. Alt...
8: ...medicine in [[1674]]. He studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford, working with such not...
10: ..., Locke resumed his medical studies, under the tutelage of [[Thomas Sydenham]]. Sydenham had a major i...
12: ...to undergo an operation (then life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and pr... - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
4: ...t is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages spoken are [[English language...
16: ...development agency cited the "notoriously high levels of violent armed robberies, burglaries and carja... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
11: ...ut not actual money. As banknotes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to...
16: ...in two forms: drafts, that is receipts for value held on account, and "bills", which were issued with ...
18: ...dardized form, usually in precious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agricu...
22: ...aper money as a circulating medium is intimately related to shortages of metal for coins. In the [[600...
24: ...'', a predecessor of the [[Bank of Sweden]], in [[1660]], although the bank ran out of coins to redeem i... - 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... - 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]] - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
6: ...Greenland]] (83°39'). Various shifting [[gravel bar]]s lie further north, the most famous being [...
12: ...t]]: 8,850 [[metre|m]] (29,035 feet) above sea level.
13: ...gure from Mariana Trench article --->below sea level [http://www.rain.org/ocean/ocean-studies-challeng...
14: ...st of places on land with elevations below sea level]]''
16: ...or around the base of the Antarctic continental shelf ---> - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
21: *[[Baccio Bandinelli]] (1493 - 1560)
29: *[[Hans Bellmer]] (1902 - 1975)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
35: *[[John Blakeley]] (1946 - )
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...e discussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism]].
3: ...r example, "''Q'' = 0.5 C" means "the quantity of electric charge is 0.5 coulomb."
6: ...[spark]] to jump. This is the origin of the word "electricity", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''&#...
8: ...s have been alleged to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
10: ...arge of static electricity was equivalent to an [[electric current]]. - 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) - 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. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...ohn the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was s...
9: ...ght of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the a...
15: ...ll as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
19: ...nder the command of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this for... - 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: ... 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse ...
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