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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - 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]].
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 ...
16: ...ar]]. He also receives credit with inventing the first practical [[universal joint]], sometimes calle... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...le]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour...
6: ...rvation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and v...
14: ...her also said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three mo...
25: ...;Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon see...
27: ...Numeri Terminorum Infinitas'' (''On Analysis by Infinite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serieru... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
16: ... southern [[France]]. He returned to England in [[1679]] when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a br...
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... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world twice, ...
6: ==First circumnavigation==
7: ...[Panama]] and captured Spanish ships on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided...
9: ...[[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]]...
18: ...mpier Archipelago]] and then [[Roebuck Bay]], but finding none he was forced to bear away north for [[... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
27: ... York Yankees]], and the [[Trenton Titans]], an affiliate of the [[Philadelphia Flyers]]. The New Jers...
32: ...[[Handsworth, South Yorkshire|Handsworth]], [[Sheffield]], UK. Quakers were being persecuted in [[Engl...
36: ...site of [[George Washington|George Washington's]] first military victory. On [[December 26]], [[1776]]...
40: In [[1896]] the first professional [[basketball]] game was played in...
52: ...High is one of the most beloved and historic [[edifices]] in the city at 74 years-old. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Pol...
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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
368: *[[Catherine Trotter Cockburn]], (1679-1749){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: ...ng that can be burned can be used as fuel for the fire: paper, trash, used crankcase oil, ground-up co...
6: ...b|375px|right|industrial machine sutherland steam fire engine. Image provided by [http://classroomclip...
7: The first steam device, the [[aeolipile| ''aeolipile'']]...
9: ...obert Fulton]] used the steam engine to power the first commercially successful [[steamship]].
15: The first industrial applications of the vacuum engines ...
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