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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - 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... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[161...
10: ...hysics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejec...
12: ...eriments reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, ...
14: ...plicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was c... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: Sir '''Isaac Newton''' ([[25 December]] [[1642]] – [[20 March]] [[1727]] by the [[Julian c...
4: ...by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could...
6: ...osed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentu...
14: ...as born in [[Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth]], a hamlet in the county of [[Lincolnshire]].Newton was prem...
19: ...f this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.... - History of California (38344 bytes)
13: ...ne]]'' and ''[[Tongva]]''. California holds a variety of unique [[ecosystem]]s and each tribe speciali...
19: ...ve of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had streets paved with gold and silver. About the same time,...
21: ...r|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]...
40: ...] to the modern California-Oregon border before returning to Spain.
48: ...com.174}} or to keep the location of his port secret from them. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the gre...
4: ...hievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and dramatic form; his ability to capture and c...
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dat...
12: ...Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearl...
14: ...3]] as his birthday. It provides a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...er]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause ...
9: ...may have been disguised [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes T...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a...
21: ... whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving recor...
23: ...otle|Aristotelian]] natural science and his pamphlet against the [[Roman Catholic]] mathematician [[Fa... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...y might involve a study of the [[relationships]] between the "[[height|apparent height]]" of the [[noo...
4: ...y fixed over the [[century|centuries]], while planets will move an appreciable amount during a compara...
10: ...of importance to [[agriculture|agricultural]] societies, in which the harvest depended on planting at ...
20: ...on its axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to the sun.
24: ...here) and ''Grahaganita'' (mathematics of the planets). - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ... ship. Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 17...
12: ...h brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to ...
20: ...ntury earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistake...
22: ...tain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788]], he felt that Botany Bay was unsuitab... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is pu...
21: ...he first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
22: ...h he says: "I came out of [[Bataan]] and I shall return".
27: *[[1966]] – The [[Jules Rimet trophy|World Cup]] is stolen from [[Central Hall]... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - 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: ...r debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he consid...
20: ...ng treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, and argued how this must be regulated if Men we... - 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}} - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...t-west width at about 5�N latitude, where it stretches approximately [[1 E7 m|19,800 km]] (12,300 mi...
18: ...om seawater include pelagic red clays and the skeletal remains of sea life. Terrigenous sediments are ...
36: ...monsoon]] region lies in the far western Pacific between Japan and Australia. Characteristic of this c...
40: ...atross Cordillera along South America to Mexico, returning then to the islands off California. Indones...
46: ...usters of the Cook, [[Marquesas]], [[Samoa]], Society, [[Tokelau]], [[Tonga]], and Tuamotu islands. No... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...was a considerable amount of cross-fertilization between distant groups and individuals.
9: ...reported in [[scientific journal]]s and are hypothetically subjected to the scrutiny of their peers, t...
11: ...[Academia Secretorum Naturae]] (Accademia dei Segreti, the Academy of the Mysteries of Nature) can be ...
13: ...gan in [[Berlin]] [[1700]]. Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including a commu...
15: ...nd global development, as though science is hypothetically international in scope, in a practical sens...
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