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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...ears Sarah's junior. They called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Freeman" and Anne "Mrs Mo...
4: ... the Duke died in [[1722]] and never saw the completion of [[Blenheim Palace]], the house built for hi...
8: ...Seymour, Duchess of Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}} - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
3: ...ral philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more ...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though larg...
22: *The Earth as a magnet
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
25: ...ons of Jupiter, lunar mountains, phases of Venus, etc. (Galileo) - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - 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]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ... 1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
6: ...Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedl...
14: Historians sometimes credit Hooke with inventing the [[microscope ...
16: ...nting the first practical [[universal joint]], sometimes called the Hooke joint, although the Italian ...
20: ... discovery, and threatened to leave the Royal Society. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] concerned primarily with [[society]] and [[epistemology]]. An [[English (people)|En...
6: ... [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to th...
8: ...with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...nd in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, ostensibly as the household ph...
14: ...ftesbury's household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the re... - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
4: ...d occupies around 150 sq km. It is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages s...
6: ...he burning of the original town. Thereafter the settlement continued to grow, becoming the capital of...
10: ...own]]. This route was served by [[flying boat]]s between [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[Kisumu]] and...
16: ...s, burglaries and carjackings"[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010428/402881.htm]. - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ...ues, coins are generally used for lower valued monetary units, while banknotes are utilised for higher...
5: ... promise to pay the bearer an amount of precious metal stored in a vault somewhere. In this way the s...
11: ...he gradual removal of precious metals from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as...
18: ...om the role of agricultural capital and precious metals having a privileged place in the economy.
22: ...ing medium is intimately related to shortages of metal for coins. In the [[600s]] there were local iss... - 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 ... - 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 [... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
12: ...nt Everest|Everest]]: 8,850 [[metre|m]] (29,035 feet) above sea level.
13: ... [[Mariana Trench]]: 10,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article -...
14: ... on land is the shore of the [[Dead Sea]]: 417 [[metre|m]] below sea level. ''See [[List of places on ...
20: ...rger in surface than the entire former [[USSR|Soviet Union]].
21: * The most remote island is [[Bouvet Island]], an uninhabited dependency of [[Norway]]... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ... under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism]].
6: ...ubbed the amber for long enough, they could even get a [[spark]] to jump. This is the origin of the wo...
10: ...ies, was invented at [[Leiden University]] by [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]] in [[1745]]. [[William Wat...
12: ...ted a [[lightning rod]] and established the link between [[lightning]] and electricity. If Franklin di...
14: ... word for "lightning" is now also used to mean "eletricity". - 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]]) - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - 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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