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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...d independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples...
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
10: ...Greek cities of western Asia Minor (Ionia) with [[Thales]] of Miletus, who was active around 585 B.C. and ...
14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward. - 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: ... be known today had Strabo not mentioned them). [[Thales]] of Miletus (c. [[6th century BCE|600 BCE]]) tho... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
21: ...Not a single [[eclipse]] record has been utilized from that period so far. Pharaoh [[Sahure]] or [[Sep...
23: ...ical correspondent of the ''[[The Times|Times]]'' from 1967. He wrote in his ''Ancient Maya civilizati...
29: ...or later, page 307). Edgerton points out that the fragment of the el-Lahun temple register that forete...
31: ...8th year and death of [[Shoshenq V]]; if reckoned from 822 BCE, then the end of Shoshenq's reign falls...
33: [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] placed the [[eclipse of Thales]] (May 585 BCE) in the eighth or twelfth year of ... - Alyattes II (1682 bytes)
3: ...Media, a [[solar eclipse]] took place (see also [[Thales]]); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, ...
5: ...drove the [[Cimmeria|Cimmerii]] (see [[Scythia]]) from [[Asia]], subdued the [[Carians]], and took sev...
11: ...oached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south. The [[sarcophagus]] and its content... - Anaximander (3421 bytes)
1: ...zen of [[Miletus]], and a companion or pupil of [[Thales]]. Little is known of his life and work. [[Aeli...
6: ...r decay, which perpetually yields fresh materials from which everything we can perceive is derived.
10: ...of ours, cylindrical in shape, poised equidistant from surrounding orbs of fire, which had originally ...
12: ...ankind was supposed by Anaximander to have sprung from some other species of animals, probably aquatic...
14: ... response to the earlier theory of his teacher, [[Thales]], who had claimed that the primary substance was... - 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: ... as portrayed 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-... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
1: ... in [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] culture by [[Thales]] (circa 624-547 BC) dealing with spatial relatio...
3: From experience, or possibly intuitively, people cha...
21: ...http://agutie.homestead.com Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas] by Antonio Gutierrez.
22: ...://www.cut-the-knot.org/geometry.shtml Geometry.] From Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...ong with possibly [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]], and [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]...
12: ...ns the length of the segment parallel to the axis from the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so ...
26: ...nd the planets (i.e. an [[orrery]]). He credits [[Thales]] and [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] for construct...
51: ...nd the distance between various celestial bodies. From the introductory letter, we also learn that Arc... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward th...
14: :<math>C = \frac{Q}{V}</math>
32: :<math>i(t) = C \frac{dv(t)}{dt}</math>
34: The [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
36: :<math>Z = \frac{1}{j \omega C} = - j X_C </math> - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: The term '''philosophy''' derives from a combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] w...
5: ...is tradition distinct and distinct field of study from Western philosophy. This article will discusse...
15: ...t to be beautiful? How do beautiful things differ from the everyday? What is [[Art]]?
19: [[Image:laozi3.jpg|frame|right|[[Lao Zi]] ]]
25: The word "philosophy" is derived from the ancient Greek (''Φιλο&#... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
6: ...eek]] ''ēlektron'' = "[[amber]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''ēlek-...
10: ..., and coined the modern Latin word ''electricus'' from ''ηλεκτρ&omicr...
12: ...[[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who created the convention of positive a...
16: Franklin's observations aided later scientists such ...
29: ...sometimes gain a measure of economic independence from the electrical utilities. - 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 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... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
8: ...ld and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been ...
11: ...f [[mysticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and belie...
13: ...son to separate the chemical (material) dimension from the interpretive, symbolic or philosophical one...
17: ...uml;ve interpretations of some alchemists, or the fraudulent hopes fostered by others should not dimin...
19: ...istry, which provided a more precise and reliable framework for matter transmutations and medicine, wi... - Miletus (2255 bytes)
9: ...ified with Miletus. In the [[1500s BC]], settlers from [[Crete]] moved there. In the [[6th century BC]...
11: ...f philosophy and science, producing such men as [[Thales]], [[Anaximander]] and [[Anaximenes of Miletus|An... - 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... - History of geography (6224 bytes)
5: ...philosophy]], with major contributors including [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Herodotus]], [[Eratosthenes]], [[...
23: ..."heat makes inhabitants of the tropics lazy" and "frequent changes in barometric pressure make inhabit...
27: ...na. They adopted the philosophy of [[positivism]] from the natural sciences and turned to [[mathematic...
29: ...aphy]] is, as the name suggests, the use of ideas from [[feminism]] in geographic contexts. The most r... - 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... - Geography1 (26085 bytes)
2: '''Geography''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''γεωγραφία''...
7: ...the latter), to compare, to generalize, to ascend from effects to causes, and, in doing so, to trace o...
17: ...de Wallace.jpg|96px]] || [[Image:Cyclone Catarina from the ISS on March 26 2004.JPG|96px]] || [[Image:...
86: ... to be regarded separately. Cartography has grown from a collection of drafting techniques into an act...
88: ...ut much controversy, that cartography is the seed from which the larger field of geography grew. Most ...
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