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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
20: ... is known as ''single'' circulation. The heart of fish is therefore only a single pump (consisting of ...
35: ...t passes through a capillary network close to air-filled [[alveoli]]. This enables the release of [[ca...
61: ...look empty. Ancient anatomists assumed they were filled with air and that they were for transport of ...
65: ...D]] knew that blood vessels carry blood and identified venous (dark red) and arterial (brighter and th...
69: [[Ibn Nafis]] in [[1242]] was the first person to accurately describe the process of b... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primiti...
15: ...ng press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
44: * [[Ivan Fedorov]], first [[Russia]]n printer
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer
60: * [[Job Definition Format]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - 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... - 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]]-) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have...
14: * [[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron microscope]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: ...re, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismissed Hobbes but he soo...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ...s opticus'') included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as ''Cogitata physi... - 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: ...Richelieu]] in [[1627]]. He left for Holland in [[1628]], where he lived and changed his address frequen... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ... [[fur trading]] expedition. Although he had no official assignment on the voyage, he created a [[map]...
13: ...ded at the "point of Quebec" and set about [[fortification|fortifying]] the area against attack by bui...
15: ...er was difficult for the colonists. Of the twenty-five people who stayed for the winter only 8 survive...
21: ... pointed out the three Iroquois chiefs. Champlain fired his [[arquebus]] and killed two of them with o...
29: ... [[China]] and the [[East Indies]], as well as to find and exploit mines of precious metals in the are... - 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: ...he research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680)...
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
1: ...' was an evolving mixture of [[science|the scientific]] and the spiritual. In the early [[middle ages]...
3: ... this era, there was no clear tradition of scientific medicine, and accurate observations went hand-in...
7: ...he basis of authority rather than experimental confirmation.
15: ...isruption of the fall of the western empire, a unified theory of medicine began to develop, based larg...
25: ... theories focused on religious rather than scientific explanations - all to no avail since about half ...
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