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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...ennings, Duchess of Marlborough''' ([[May 29]], [[1660]] - [[October 18]], [[1744]]), rose to be one of ... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...some claiming that the proper start of the scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutio...
3: ... seventeenth century was a period of major scientific change. But at that time the word "[[science]]" ...
7: ...o the nature and even the existence of the scientific revolution. To some extent this arises from diff...
9: ...ervers, it seems entirely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. ...
11: ... may be summarized in the following lists of significant advances in science: - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]]
88: *[[Thomas Urquhart|Urquhart, Thomas]] (1611-c. 1660) - 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]]-) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...ntury]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolution]].
4: ...e]], and gained employment as his assistant. In [[1660]], he discovered [[Hooke's law]] of [[solid mecha...
6: ...ild London after the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Roy...
12: ... uncoils with a natural periodicity, allowing for fine adjustment of the period of ticks. Modern sprin...
14: ...]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstripped the capabilities of ... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
18: ...ion 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King of Scotland had bee...
22: ...cke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his published writ...
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerni...
27: ...entary on the exclusion crisis than it was a justification of the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688, tho... - 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...
8: [[Image:Nairobi_kenya2.jpg|left|thumb|Traffic in Nairobi. Image provided by [http://classroomc... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
5: ...As an alternative, banknotes would be issued. In financial terms, a note is a promise to pay someone ...
7: ...he Treasury. If a note is payable in demand for a fixed unit, it is said to be fully convertible to th...
9: ...nger true; the currency of all countries is now [[fiat money]] not backed by gold or silver. There are...
20: ...ems of banking as early as Ptolemaic Egypt in the first century BC.
22: ...], short of copper for striking coins, issued the first generally circulating notes. A note is a promi... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
4: ...the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's legacy and...
6: ...] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the ...
19: ...ce he was entitled to, although this cannot be confirmed because the school's records have not survive...
23: On [[May 26]], [[1583]] Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. A s... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
56: *[[Hermann Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
58: *[[Hans Fischer]], German organic chemist, [[1930]] [[Nobel ...
64: *[[Johan Gadolin]], (1760–1852), [[Finns|Finnish]] chemist
80: *[[Friedrich Hoffmann]], (1660-1742), physician and chemist - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
13: ...h]]: 10,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article --->below sea lev...
16: ... contenders would be in the north Atlantic or Pacific, or around the base of the Antarctic continental...
20: ... d|48|S|125|W|}}, which is approximately 2670 km (1660 mi) from the nearest land. It's in the middle of ...
27: ...icity is located), that Felicity is legally and officially the centre of the world. [[Surrealist]] a... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
263: *[[Andreas Schlueter|Andreas Schlüter]] (1660 - 1714) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...d the other negative. Through experimentation, we find that like-charged objects repel and opposite-ch...
8: ...ave been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence to indicate what the objec...
10: ...sulator]]s; and [[C. F. Du Fay]], who first identified the two types of electricity that would later b...
22: ...lternating current]], which he used to build the first induction motor, invented in [[1882]]. In May ...
31: ...neers, Chemists, and Technicians'', by D. J. Shanefield, William Andrew Publishing (Norwich, NY), 2001... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ... [[philosophy of science]], as well as the entire field of [[science studies]], have in the [[20th cen...
7: ...phers worked in relative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of communication. Still, there ...
9: ...e internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ...ies of Nature) can be considered the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[G...
13: ...ten]] began in [[Berlin]] [[1700]]. Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including...
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