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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]].
38: ... the artistic novelties of the period and enough determination to live as a protagonist during this wo... - Silk (8683 bytes)
8: ... so extensive that the major set of trade routes between Europe and Asia has become known as the [[Sil...
10: ==Secret==
11: ...ollow canes. The [[Byzantines]] were equally secretive, and for many centuries the weaving and tradin...
15: ...er in one major respect from the domesticated varieties. The cocoons, which are gathered in the wild, ...
17: A variety of wild silks have been known and used in China,... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ... in [[1840]]. There are 10 more provinces in the Netherlands.<!--
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9: image_flag = Netherlands_flag_large.png |
11: image_map = LocationNetherlands.png |
19: ...Dutch monarch|Queen]]<br>[[Prime minister of the Netherlands|Prime minister]] | - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
37: ... and the towns of [[Middletown, Rhode Island|Middletown]] and [[Portsmouth, Rhode Island|Portsmouth]] ...
42: ... it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historically, the land is unique because it...
44: ... [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could ...
46: ...cretary. In 1643 [[Samuel Gorton]] founded Shawomet, which is now called [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warw...
52: ...e only one of the thirteen colonies that had complete religious freedom. Under the terms of the chart... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]]...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] ar...
22: ...und [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nati...
12: ...cted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended...
14: ... was exposed to European scientific and critical methods during the tour in contrast to the [[scholast...
16: ...aris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...ng treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, and argued how this must be regulated if Men we... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
6: ...c geometry]], that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] an...
11: ...ulosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henr...
13: ...assau]], leader of the United Provinces of the [[Netherlands]]. His intention was to see the world and...
14: ...e profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
17: ...735). He is best known for his introduction of a method of modern classification; he created systemati...
19: ...n lower case and an author label and publication details have to be added.
21: ...used, sometimes with one additional adjective, sometimes with another, so that no true names were fixe...
23: ...he two-part scientific name makes it possible to determine the other six layers. - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''...
3: ...s (all sorts, but especially calipers and [[micrometer]]s) and on [[theodolite]]s.
5: ... the diagram). The measure taken will usually be between two of the smallest gradations on this scale... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...lying logic of scientific practice. A scientific method is essentially an extremely cautious means of ...
6: The development of methods for scientific inquiry is indivisible from th...
7: ...00s BC|1600 BC]]), an ancient surgical textbook, details the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and pr...
9: ...ons the teaching of arithmetic, astronomy and geometry in schools. The philosophical ideas of this tim...
11: ... we find the beginnings of a primitive inductive method, although one that is based on collections of ... - Opera (25153 bytes)
3: ...isting of a [[drama|dramatic]] stage performance set to [[music]].
5: ...ting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The...
7: Opera draws from many other art forms. Whether the words or the music are paramount has been ...
9: ...es, such as lyric soprano, [[coloratura]], ''soubrette'', spinto, and dramatic soprano, which associat...
11: ... During the period when composers ofen used both methods of recitative accompaniment in the same opera... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ...an sprawl around Philadelphia]], containing such settlements as New Stockholm (now [[Bridgeport, New J...
8: ...llowing years, some 600 [[Swedes]] and [[Finns]] settled in the area.
10: ...ty]]. As reprisal, the Dutch - led by governor [[Peter Stuyvesant]] - moved an army to the [[Delaware ...
12: ...e immigration and expansion continued. The first settlement and [[Fort Wicaco]] were built on the pres...
17: *[[Peter Minuit]] (1638)
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