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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi - 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]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...[1635]] - [[March 3]], [[1703]]), one of the greatest experimental scientists of the [[seventeenth cen...
4: ...d appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
6: ...of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the...
8: ...head that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, however.
12: ...rings, and derivative designs of Hooke's [[anchor escapement]] remain in common use. - 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... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...s perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...ilosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical material taught at the Uni...
8: ... infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...t that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
12: ...life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with ... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...n the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] befor...
9: ...g Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cruised to [[Manila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]...
11: ...a the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of his journals.
16: ...Voyage Round the World'' in [[1697]] created interest at the British [[Admiralty]] and in [[1699]] Dam...
18: ...n]], discovering the [[Dampier Strait]] between these islands (now the [[Bismarck Islands]]) and New G... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
22: west_coord = 74.7561|
25: ...tion links with the [[Delaware Valley]] than it does with [[New York metropolitan area|New York]] It ...
27: ...son, which has two maximum security units and houses the state's most dangerous criminals, is also loc...
32: ... become Trenton was established by [[Quakers]] in 1679, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaw...
36: ...capital for the new country, but the southern states favored a location south of the [[Mason-Dixon Lin... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...age:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([...
4: ... ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Pol...
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)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
1: ...locomotive]] trains and [[steam ships]], and were essential to the [[Industrial Revolution]]. They are...
3: ...ushes against a piston or turbine, whose motion does the work to turn the wheels.
9: ... steam engine to power the first commercially successful [[steamship]].
11: ... [[vacuum]] of condensing steam, whereas later types (such as [[steam locomotive]]s) used the power of...
15: ...mp piston that moves the water, through check valves, to the top of the shaft.
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