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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...tist [[Puritan]] sect, who obtained a land patent from the [[London Virginia Company]] in [[1620]] bef...
3: ...e. On [[December 21]], [[1620]], 102 [[Pilgrims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] o...
7: ...mouth Colony was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tr... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different...
9: ...d [[16th century|16th]] centuries, Europe emerged from the [[Middle Ages]] and entered the [[Renaissan...
13: ... as the Europeans were concerned, they were still free for the taking.
16: ...[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts.
20: [[Image:ronokmap.JPG|right|framed|1584 map of Chesapeake Bay by John White]] - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: A '''clock''' (from the [[Latin]] ''cloca'', "[[bell]]") is an inst...
43: ...ll used in French for large clocks. It is derived from the Greek ''hora'' meaning ‘hour’ a...
47: ...ive in any quantity are mid-[[16th century]] ones from the metalworking towns of [[Nuremberg]] and [[A...
51: ... next major development in accuracy occurred in [[1657]] with the invention of the [[pendulum clock]]. [...
120: * Edey, Winthrop. French Clocks. New York: Walker & Co., 1967. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
2: ...d a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[li...
9: ...]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. H...
11: ...dren, all of whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[16... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric 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: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...ndous government support and also ongoing support from the private sector. Available methods of commun...
9: ...their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scientific communit...
13: ...as created as an institution of the government of France [[1666]], meeting in the King's library. The ...
15: ...ost-Cold War era, a decline in government funding from many countries has been met with an increase of...
22: ... painting]]s depicted events, with no commentary. From 40,000 BC to 15,000 BC. - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...(1580–1656), [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657), and [[Edward Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advance...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...be incorrect. The misunderstanding probably stems from a passage in Robert Abbot's work ''A Hand of Fe...
5: ...[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
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