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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
11: Catherine reorganized Russian provincial administration, granti...
33: ...itings. She was able to lure the mathematician [[Leonhard Euler]] from Berlin back to Saint Petersburg... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
14: ...nd any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teachin...
25: ...se than they had at first planned; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague; th...
27: ...ts the democratic doctrine that it is the common people in a nation whose lot ought to be the main con...
31: D'Alembert withdrew from the enterprise and other powerful c...
36: ...iples of a new drama, the serious, domestic, bourgeois drama of real life, in opposition to the stilte... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...baroque]] and classical eras in music, and the [[neo-classical]] period in the arts, and receives cont...
6: ...ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment ...
16: ...l concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical program" (Cassirer 1979: 121–123). There...
20: ...ained lenses, and began to create an underlying theory of how they functioned. This shift united the p... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
47: *[[George Atwood]] (Britain, [[1746]] - [[1807]])
100: *[[George Boole]] (Britain, [[1815]] - [[1864]])
129: *[[Georg Cantor|Georg Ferdinand Cantor]] (Germany, [[1845]] - [[1918]...
189: *[[George Dantzig]] (USA, [[1914]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-15...
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
46: *[[Alcmaeon of Croton]], (5th century BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
36: ...George I]] died and [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] succeeded. The new king was not fond of p...
94: ...e earthquake at [[Lisbon]], which appalled other people, gave Voltaire an excellent opportunity for ri...
96: ... provoked Rousseau's celebrated ''Lettre à D'Alembert sur les spectacles''. As for himself, he looked a...
104: ... into trouble in so doing at Ferney, how he put "Deo erexit Voltaire" on it ([[1760]]-[[1761]]) and ob...
142: ...asm for the subject nor by real understanding thereof, it could not but be an unsatisfactory performan... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: ...0 BC]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[astronomer]], [[geographer]], and [[mathematician]]. The [[European S...
4: ...o solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his numerical trigonometry, he was probab...
8: ...''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny...
28: ...d been forgotten. After the discovery of the archeological sites in the 19th century, many writings o...
61: == Geometry and trigonometry == - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: ...0 BC]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[astronomer]], [[geographer]], and [[mathematician]]. The [[European S...
3: ...o solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his numerical trigonometry, he was probab...
7: ...''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny...
27: ...d been forgotten. After the discovery of the archeological sites in the 19th century, many writings o...
60: == Geometry and trigonometry == - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
8: ... it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
16: * [[1700]]: [[Bridge of the Gods (geologic event)|Bridge of the Gods]] forms across the...
39: ...1714]]: Accession of [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Grea...
64: * [[1725]]: The [[Fula people|Fulani]] nomads took complete control of [[Kin...
115: ...upright|thumb|[[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]], King of Great Britain.]]
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