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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ...rthquake levelled it, was the Temple of Hera on [[Samos]], built about [[570 BC]] - [[560 BC]] by the arc...
6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
8: ...wers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "eyes". After a little early experimentat...
12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...] [[astronomer]] and [[mathematician]], born in [[Samos]], [[Greece]]. He is the first recorded person to...
9: ...rth. This is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a ...
11: ...apparently quite strong, as the following passage from [[Plutarch]] suggests (''On the Apparent Face i...
13: ...e duty of the [[Greek]]s to indict Aristarchus of Samos on the charge of impiety for putting in motion th...
21: ...iameters must be in proportion to their distances from Earth. He thus concluded that the Sun was 20 ti... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
3: ...ses. Current trends in this field are moving away from analog methods of mapmaking and toward the crea...
6: [[Image:Radkarte_MKL1888.png|thumb|World map from the [[Middle Age]]s.]]
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emp...
9: .... An engraved map of the holy city of [[Nippur]], from the Kassite period ([[14th century BCE|14th]] &...
11: ...s cylindrical. In [[288 BCE]], [[Aristarchus]] of Samos was the first to say that the [[sun]] was the cen... - Aeschines (2644 bytes)
9: ...36 BC|336]], when [[Ctesiphon]] proposed that his friend Demosthenes should be rewarded with a golden ...
11: ... a school of rhetoric. He afterwards removed to [[Samos]], where he died in the seventy-fifth year of his... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
8: From [[Protagoras]], [[Prodicus]], and others he lea...
18: From this time he took a prominent part in Athenian ...
19: Originally friendly to [[Sparta]], he subsequently became the l...
32: ...o no result he attached himself to the fleet at [[Samos]] which remained loyal to the democracy, and was ...
37: ...t [[Antiochus]], led the Athenians to dismiss him from his command. - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
9: ...is (a native of Samos) and Mnesarchus (a merchant from Tyre). As a young man he left his native city f...
13: ...e, reading and philosophical study. We may infer from this that participants required some degree of ...
16: ...trayed on [[Roman empire|Roman]] [[coin]]s from [[Samos]]]]
17: ...of [[reincarnation]]. His other teachings appear framed in pithy sayings, or ''sumbola'', often in qu...
19: ...urder and pain cannot reap joy and love" (excerpt from the book ''The extended circle'', by Jon Wynne-... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
1: [[Image:aristotle.jpg|right|framed|Aristotle (sculpture)]]
10: ...alogue itself which guides the interlocutors away from the paths to truth. The soul alone can have kno...
12: ...wrote dialogues early in his career, no more than fragments of these have survived. The works of Arist...
17: ...ing his ''Ethics'': detail from the [[Vatican]] [[fresco]] ''[[Raphael Rooms|The School of Athens]]'',...
19: The history of Aristotle's works from the time of his death until the [[1st century B... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]]) - 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... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
7: ...tween Corinth and [[Corcyra]], preventing Corinth from invading Corcyra at the [[Battle of Sybota]], a...
11: ... Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Thus, the two powers were relati...
15: ...ped up from the soil by the thousands of refugees from Attica hiding out in Athens during a siege by t...
23: ...und the Peloponnese. While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began t...
29: ...eir distant allies in [[Sicily]] was under attack from [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The people of Syr... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
1: ...7_04_9561W.jpg|thumb|250px|View of the Aegean Sea from Rhodes, Greece. Image provided by [http://class...
9: ... and [[Crete]] to [[Rhodes]], dividing the Aegean from the Mediterranean. Many of the islands have saf... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
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182: *[[Samos]]
193: *[[Territory of Hawai?i]], a US territory from 1898 to 1959, now part of the United States.
196: ...[New Caledonia]], now an overseas department of [[France]]
212: ...e Cook Islands and Niue are in [[associated state|free association]] with New Zealand. See [[Niue Con... - Roman commerce (14626 bytes)
1: ...omic basis of the empire in favor of the [[lingua franca]] of [[Latin]] and the exploits of the [[Roma...
3: ...ursuits and leisure activities. [[Plebeians]] and freedmen held shop or manned stalls at markets while...
9: ...o the soldiers and paid cash for any booty coming from military activities.
11: ...ok spices and perfumes to the rural population (Safra p78). This suggests that the economic benefits o...
13: *Ze'ev Safrai "The Economy of Roman Palestine", London 1994
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