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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...x|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria...
3: ...ligious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...o Gentileschi]], one of the greatest representatives of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was in...
12: ...promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...f thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ... explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...on. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ... determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accurate measurements of ...
14: ...he experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-squared law (Drake, 1973... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...work for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm...
4: ...r's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those o...
6: ...nomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular mom...
17: ...l|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...ge of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someo... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied ...
5: ...est primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity and ...
7: ...ield of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]] ''circa'' [[1910]].]]
11: ... California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [...
13: ...]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait Gallery, London|Nationa...
2: ... and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], ...
4: ...e continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have ...
6: ... uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 ye...
8: ...ases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...stronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the...
7: ...near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...t time were thought to date uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed...
10: ...stration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical elemen...
11: ...r influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Ni... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
59: *[[Carl Remigius Fresenius]]
60: *[[Wilhelm Fresenius]], son of Carl, German chemist, (1913-2004)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who disc... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...hart|astrological charts]] were drawn up by cultures around the world using the raw, astronomical data...
4: ...remain relatively fixed over the [[century|centuries]], while planets will move an appreciable amount ...
8: ...at the first "professional" astronomers were [[priest]]s ([[Magi]]), and that their understanding of t...
10: ...ors altered the calendar subsequently. [[Julius Caesar]] instigated [[Julian calendar|calendar reform]...
14: ...m cities of India. The texts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millenn... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...scookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, Natio...
3: ... the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[cartographer|map m...
7: ...ook was one of five children born to Grace and James, Sr., who worked as a day laborer on a farm. As...
8: ... the [[Seven Years War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
10: [[Image:Nfld chartofcook.jpg|thumb|200px|James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland]] - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: ...413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
8: ...602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established.
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, steali...
10: ...Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
11: ...eon I of France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,00... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...age:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([...
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]],...
6: ...escartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
12: At university Hobbes appears to have followed his own curriculum; he w... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...int on earth—the [[Mariana Trench]]—lies some 10,911 m (35,797 ft) below sea level.
5: ...5,000 islands (more than the total number in the rest of the world's oceans combined), the majority of...
7: ...ins the Pacific and the [[Indian ocean]]s on the west, and the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacif...
9: ...e]]s. [[Tsunami]]s, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole...
15: ...es lie adjacent to the outer margins of the wide western Pacific continental shelf. - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...s in the development of [[science]], and asking questions about how science "works" both in a philosop...
7: ...elative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of communication. Still, there was a considerabl...
9: ...ary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ... the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The A...
13: ...functions, including a community open to and interested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar w...
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