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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - 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. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
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....
25: ...erms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Epic Poetry'' (1727), "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his... - 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... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...umnavigate]] the world twice, and went on to complete a third circumnavigation.
4: ...a plantation manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon returned to the sea,
7: ...en raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...he ''Cygnet'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]...
11: ...in [[Sumatra]]. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in [[1691]] via the [[Cape of Goo... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
12: area = 21.1 [[square kilometer|km²]] (8.1 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
17: metro pop = |
25: ...[[Delaware Valley]] than it does with [[New York metropolitan area|New York]] It is the [[county seat...
29: ...ton and its immediate suburbs are often lumped together and referred to as "Greater Trenton" by locals...
32: ... become Trenton was established by [[Quakers]] in 1679, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaw... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nati...
4: ... ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Pol...
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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
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}} - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: ...e, high proof alcohol, dry grass, hay, dry weeds, etc. The steam expands and pushes against a piston o...
9: ...s [[pressure cooking|pressure cooker]] in about [[1679]]. Sir [[Samuel Morland]] also developed ideas fo...
17: ...[James Watt]] who was a member of the [[Lunar Society]]. His discovery and its development increased t...
19: ...t important refinement at this point was the [[safety valve]], which releases excess pressure. Reliabl...
30: ...te of burning; the boiler must be constructed to get that extra heat to the water. An engine using thi...
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