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- Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ... have survived. Letters to her by her pupil [[Synesius]] give an idea of her intellectual milieu. Sh...
4: ...arked on an intense campaign to destroy pagan places of worship.
8: ... virtue, often portrayed as a life-long virgin. These later accounts should not be seen as strict hist...
10: ...riographer [[Socrates Scholasticus]] in his ''Ecclesiastical History'' portrays her as a follows:
12: ...ly appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an asse... - Mut (3472 bytes)
2: ..., was replaced with a more substantial mother-goddess, namely Mut.
4: ... species, the Egyptians believed there were no males, and so they did not reproduce but were [[concept...
6: ...ide Mut's temple, at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Menthu was eventually replaced as Mut's...
8: ...ssimilated [[Menhit]], who was also a lioness goddess, and her adopted son's wife, becoming ''Mut-Sekh...
10: ...he queen. The Ennead proved to be a much more successful identity, and so it was that the compound of ... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
2: ...]] [[mathematician]] and [[philosopher]], known best for formulating the [[Pythagorean theorem]].
6: ...could be predicted and measured in rhythmic [[cycles]].
9: ...ch visits feature stereotypically in the biographies of many Greek wise men, and are likely more legen...
11: ...men and women students alike. They called themselves the Mathematikoi; a secret society of sorts.
13: ...her regularly; they used the [[lyre]] to cure illness of the soul or body; [[poetry]] recitations occu... - Space (10661 bytes)
1: ...scientific and philosophical concept. For other uses of space, see [[space (disambiguation)]].
6: ...hapes, and their speeds. In this view ''space'' does not refer to any kind of entity that is a "contai...
8: ...f [[spacetime]] – a conception that challenges intuitive notions of distance and time.
16: * That which separates objects from one another
17: ...round' for any manifested form and, as such, enables movement and all physical dynamics - Human (48024 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Primates]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''H. sapiens '''''}}
15: ...bdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Subspecies}}
21: ...uperfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]]s, [[orangutan]]s,...
24: ...mmunity]] is that [[human evolution]] occured in response to a need for long distance [[running]]. Hum... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...y motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] ...
4: Kepler was a [[professor]] of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Gr...
6: ...er, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the world") in Linz dur...
9: ...s said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant...
15: ...f teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the pos... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...most influential philosophers in [[Western world|Western]] thought. He wrote many books about [[physi...
8: ...crates did not leave any writings, possibly as a result of the reasons articulated against writing phi...
10: ...n have knowledge of the [[Forms]], the real essences of things, of which the world we see is but an im...
12: ...and difficult to read. Among the most important ones are ''Physics'', ''Metaphysics'', ''[[Nicomachean...
14: ...[[zoology]]. In philosophy, Aristotle wrote on [[aesthetics]], [[economics]], [[ethics]], [[government... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
5: <br/><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
65: | [[1 E13 m2|1.795×10<sup>7</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup...
68: | 7.15×10<sup>9</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km<sup>3</sup>]]...
71: | [[1 E22 kg|1.25]][[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>22</sup> [[kilogram|kg]]<br>(0.0021 Eart...
79: !align="left"| [[Escape velocity]] - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...tion in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...h as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of b...
8: ...o [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]...
12: ...The Age of Reason]]." For the present purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; howeve...
14: ...ngs of [[Michel de Montaigne]] and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry i... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
2: ...| [[Image:Hst sts82.jpg|285px|The Hubble Space Telescope]]
4: ...maller; text-align:center;" | The Hubble Space Telescope, from the [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] during ...
6: ...rganization'''||[[NASA]], [[European Space Agency|ESA]]
24: |'''Telescope style'''||reflector
43: ...tronomy]]. Since its launch in 1990 it has been responsible for many ground-breaking observations and... - 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... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
2: {{Infobox President | name=James Earl Carter, Jr.
4: | image name=Presidentcarter.jpg
5: | order=39th President
16: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
17: | vicepresident=[[Walter Mondale]] - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...ely. The [[philosopher's stone]] was the key in these goals. This mythical substance, which could just...
8: ...by contrast with the "Red land", the surrounding desert), so it is thought that such a borrowing in Ar...
11: ... available, relying instead on [[rule of thumb|rules of thumb]], traditions, basic observations, and m...
13: ...station. So the [[alchemical symbol]]s and processes often had both an inner meaning referring to the ...
15: ...cal, spiritual and [[astrology|astrological]] themes that was characteristic of medieval alchemy. - Eros (mythology) (4590 bytes)
1: ... [[Aphrodite]]. He was, like [[Dionysus]], sometimes referred to as '''''Eleutherios''''', "the libera...
5: ...nceived with Darkness. In the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]], he was worshipped as '''''Protogonus''''', the...
7: ...ds to interfere in the course of some mortals' lives. In some versions he had brothers named [[Anteros...
9: ...ion with Protogones and Phanes he was adorned represented as a bull, a serpent, a lion, and with the h...
13: ...played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], he shared a very p... - Yoga (18820 bytes)
3: ...opularity outside [[India]], particularly in the West during the past century.
7: ... the name is that of the individual soul with the cosmos, or the Supreme.
9: ...housands of years, special practical yoga techniques have been developed by experts in yoga, who are r...
11: ...niques - is actually the third and the fourth stages of [[Ashtanga Yoga]] of [[Yoga Sutra]]s by [[Pata...
17: ...rms. Most yoga guidebooks include glossaries of these terms with local language explanations.
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