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- Compass (8275 bytes)
3: ...g directions. It consists of a magnetised pointer free to align itself accurately with [[Earth's magne...
5: ...ent]] with a magnetized bar or [[needle]] turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a [[north]]erly ...
20: ...e sometime later in the [[12th century]]. About [[1358]], there is a story about an English monk, [[Nich...
24: In the Mediterranean, however, the practice from ancient times had been to curtail sea travel be...
30: ...ed so the user can distinguish the north-pointing from the south-pointing end; in modern convention th... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...ovince (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both battlefield and prize (Br...
8: ... the conflict can be found 400 years earlier when Frankish [[Carolingian]] ruler [[Charles the Simple]...
10: ...ns who still spoke a version of [[French language|French]], and could remember a time when their grand...
13: ...ng three male heirs. The eldest son, [[Louis X of France|Louis X]], died in [[1316]], leaving only a d...
15: ...ide in favor of the last brother, [[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], without question. - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...0 BC, with an as yet unexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite poli...
5: ... language]]. The Hittites should be distinguished from the "[[Hattians]]", an earlier people who inhab...
7: ...rchs (Bible)|Patriarch]]s up to [[Ezra]]'s return from [[Babylonian captivity of Judah|Babylonian capt...
14: ...I]] and his son [[Akhenaton]]. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta", apparently located in the...
15: ...the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of t... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fré¤İric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...llocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as the '''Knights of Rhod... - Copper (13595 bytes)
78: | 0.0505 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1358 K
136: ...d because so much of it was mined in [[Cyprus]]). From this, the phrase was simplified to ''cuprum'' a...
138: ...ns of copper [[smelting]], the refining of copper from simple copper oxides such as [[malachite]] or [...
140: There are copper and [[bronze]] artifacts from [[Sumerian]] cities that date to 3000 BC, and [...
142: ... an animal skin, a typical shape of copper ingots from these times.]] - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
14: ... of [[Rome]] in the [[5th century]], and isolated from the rest of the world by the spread of [[Islam]...
16: ...rpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from about [[476]] to about [[1000]], this period ca...
18: ...ic]], [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[music]]). From the year [[787]] on, [[decree]]s began to circu...
20: ...e rebirth of the interest in speculative inquiry; from this interest would follow the rise of the [[Sc...
27: ...the texts of the ''ancients'' and started a new infrastructure which was needed for scientific communi...
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