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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...aladoid]]-[[Barrancoid]] group, who were farmers, fishermen, and ceramists that arrived by [[canoe]] f...
11: ...s"), upon seeing the appearance of the island's [[fig]] trees, whose long hanging aerial roots he thou...
13: ... in [[1639]]. Among the initial important British figures was Sir [[William Courten]].
21: ...ation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. When the federation w...
27: ...which has 28 seats. Its members are elected every five years. The Senate has 21 members, and its membe... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
62: ...med control in the late [[18th century]] and were finally ceded the area in [[1814]]. The three became...
105: ...est]]s and most of Guyana's mineral deposits, and finally the larger interior highlands consisting mos...
107: ...along the coast. There are two rainy seasons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-No...
112: ...ustries threaten the government's already tenuous fiscal position and dim prospects for the future. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year.
31: ==Scientific work== - Cattle (12844 bytes)
17: Cattle were originally identified by [[Carolus Linnaeus]] as three separate speci...
23: ...'''" (young ox) and "'''beefing'''" (young animal fit for [[slaughtering]]) are obsolete terms. Cattl...
25: ...h "bull" in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting.
33: ...lled by poachers in [[Masovia]], [[Poland]], in [[1627]], although some breeders have attempted to recre...
46: ...untries, bulls are used in the [[sport]] of [[bullfighting]]; in many other countries this is illegal. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...s the [[Age of Reason]]. The term also more specifically refers to a historical intellectual movement...
16: ...observation, resulted in a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what...
18: ...If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw themsel...
20: ...s shift united the pure empiricism of Renaissance figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Fr...
24: ... reflected the intrinsic quality of a person as defined by the philosophers of the age. [[John Locke]]... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
13: * [[Aurochs]] (1627, Poland)
66: ...waiian honeycreeper|Hawaii Mamo]], ''Drepanis pacifica''
69: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Lesser Koa-finch]], ''Rhodacanthus flaviceps''
70: * [[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Greater Koa-finch]], ''Rhodacanthus palmeri'' - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...scartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also kno...
4: ...he [[Scholasticism|Schools]] on two major points: first, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substanc...
6: ...sophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed significantly to science as well. As the inventor of the ...
14: ...upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method o...
18: ...n du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]]. He left for Holland in [[1628]], where he live... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
194: *[[Hugh Binning]], (1627-1653)
236: *[[Robert Boyle]], (1627-1691){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]] - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...hemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
11: ... traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in the gaps.
17: ...of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of chemistry and modern [[medicine]].
21: ...s research did not enter the mainstream of scientific discussion.
23: ...ms, being unstable [[isotope]]s, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart. More recently... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [...
5: ...om the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation ...
9: ...next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad v...
11: ...tion due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people...
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference...
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