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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]]... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Throne. It was for this reason that the...
15: ...tuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], ...
19: ...d as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and h...
24: ...iam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from ...
26: ...ended from [[James I of England]] through [[Elizabeth of Bohemia]]. Several genealogically senior clai... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
15: At the age of fifteen, Princess Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Pri...
17: ...r. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
20: ... that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a substitute for the Queen's stil...
22: ...secretly requested William III—then in the Netherlands with Mary—to come to England with a...
24: ...Philip II remained King only during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. Wi... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
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) - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue g...
3: ...composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[m...
5: ...riginate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials...
9: ...bital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 5...
11: ...rding of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[N... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...ating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [...
4: ...n]] saw the inception of the modern [[scientific method]] to guide the evaluation of [[knowledge]]. Th...
6: ...nquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavi...
11: ... what science ''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. T...
13: ...re can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of investigation. - 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)
2: ...Principia Mathematica]]'' (published [[5 July]] [[1687]]<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>), where he...
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.... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...[447 BC]] and the building was substantially completed by [[438 BC]], but work on the decorations cont...
11: ...e curves is to make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...etres on the east and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...r possession of the land of [[Attica]]. [[Metope|Metopes]] ran along the outer frieze of all four side...
23: ...ient [[Greek temple]]s appeals to the modern aesthetic, the Parthenon, like all ancient buildings, was... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
10: ...attle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
12: ... the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
26: ...]] [[Stan Getz]] [[Sound_recording|records]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanem...
29: ...its day-to-day business via the cable television network [[C-SPAN]]. - March 22 (9294 bytes)
7: ...lgonquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a third of t...
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [...
9: ...- [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
21: ...]] - Closed since [[1939]], the [[London gold market]] reopens.
27: ... twentieth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for the [[Netherlands]] singing "Ding-a-dong." - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
6: ... before about [[1750]], there was no distinction between [[astronomy]] and [[astrology]].
8: ...elestial bodies]], and so instead must resort to detailed [[observation]] in order to make discoveries...
18: |Determined the positions of about 1,000 bright stars,...
27: ...ary]] movements and named many [[star]]s. His planetary system was the most advanced of his period and...
33: ...''[[Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion|Laws of Planetary Motion]]''. - 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]]) - 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}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th...
61: ...h in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 1876 etc.). Socially, the advent of nationalism and the y... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...rick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with [[bitumen]], in the upper stage they are ...
9: ...es of the Ubaid culture consolidated into larger settlements out of the need for large-scale, centrali...
15: ... [[Ur-Nammu]] (or Urnammu) came to power, ruling between [[22nd century BC|2112 BC]] and [[21st centur...
19: ...ging river patterns and/or the silting of the outlet to the [[Persian Gulf]].
22: ...e Chaldees", referring to the [[Chaldea]]ns, who settled there around [[900 BC]]. The Kasidim could al... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
2: {{Elementbox_series | [[metalloid]]s }}
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
28: {{Elementbox_magnetic | nonmagnetic }}
40: ...yn]] | hl=[[1 E9 s|276 y]] | dm=[[beta emission|β<sup>-</sup>]] | de=0.221 | pn=32 | ps=[[phospho...
44: ...d because its [[passivation|native oxide]] forms better semiconductor/dielectric interfaces than almos... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...havior and properties of [[matter]] in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear partic...
4: ...mechanics]], [[thermodynamics]], and [[electromagnetism]].
6: .... There is a large area of research intermediate between physics and mathematics, known as [[mathemati...
10: === Theoretical and experimental physics ===
12: ...s]] or [[experimental physics]], and in the twentieth century, very few physicists have been successfu...
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