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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...rst to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
47: ...1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [...
57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
179: *[[Douglas Mawson]] - [[Australia]]n explorer of [[Antarct... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
12: ...asino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tus...
18: ... patronage of the [[Medici]] and [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]. During this period, Artemisia als...
44: ===Naples and the english period ([[1630]]-[[1653]])===
50: ...er in [[London]] at the court of [[Charles I of England]], where Orazio became court painter and recei... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
34: ...s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
52: * [[Glass]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
69: * [[1st century BC]]: [[Glassblowing]] in [[Syria]]
99: * [[1280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Ita...
107: * [[1451]]: [[Concave lens]] for [[eyeglasses]]: [[Nicholas of Cusa]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
98: *[[Barr Glenn]] ([[1968]]-)
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
361: *[[Aaron Douglas]] ([[1898]]-[[1979]])
385: *[[Ron English]] ([[1948]]-)
470: *[[Ilya Glazunov]] ([[1930]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
32: ...e Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
41: *[[Edwin Beard Budding]], (1795-1846) England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
47: ... he correctly accounted, for instance, for the negligible tides halfway along the [[Adriatic Sea]] co...
53: ... translations by [[Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia|Tartaglia]] and others; but by the end of Galileo's life ...
62: ...on earlier instruments designed by [[Niccolo Tartaglia]] and [[Guidobaldo del Monte]]. For gunners, it...
83: ...pture by a professor of philosophy, [[Cosimo Boscaglia]], who was neither a theologian nor a priest. T... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronom...
29: ...rior, and were generally adopted throughout the English-speaking world. (Curiously, in Germany the New...
31: ...mal ordination requirement, and [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], whose permission was needed, acc...
36: ...the wider diameter of the mirror. (Only later, as glasses with a variety of refractive properties beca...
46: ...s experiments: " ... Mr Hooke tried casually with glass wedges filled with red and blue Liquors, and w... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...ation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago.
45: ...national flags to fly over California: that of England, Russia, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Califo...
50: ... and New Mexico "[[Nova Albion]]," and that all English colonial claims were made from the East Coast ...
64: * [[1642]]: [[Luis Cestin de Canas]]
132: ...West Florida]] against the Spanish, it bears a single star. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...ion as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], as well as one of the world's pre-...
4: ...nfluence continues to be felt in all parts of the globe. He has been translated into every major livi...
8: Shakespeare's influence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of ...
14: ... Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of England.
33: ...lizabeth I]] and the coronation of [[James I of England|James I]] ([[1603]]), the new monarch adopted ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
19: ...d was denied a position there (and elsewhere in England).
21: ...nt in the household of the French ambassador to England (M Castelnau). John Bossy's ''Giordano Bruno a...
45: ...''sic''). [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) we...
53: ...ite, or that all stars were equidistant from a single [[center of the universe]]. In these respects, h... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[niobium]]
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemist
99: *[[Harold Kroto]], (born 1939), English chemist, [[1996]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
46: ...e Sun and the Moon. [[Eratosthenes]], using the angles of shadows created at widely-separated regions,...
57: ...0pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that ou... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...n a [[collier]] that distributed coal along the English coast. While working for Walker, Cook began to...
20: ...hind [[Abel Tasman]] over a century earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastlin...
26: ... name "kangaroo" was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name f...
39: ...''. Cook [[circumnavigation|circumnavigated]] the globe at a very high southern [[latitude]], becoming...
49: ...nd]] on [[Vancouver Island]], although he unknowingly sailed past the [[Strait of Juan de Fuca]]. He e... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: ...[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
20: *[[1922]] – The [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United State...
22: *[[1942]] – General [[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]...
36: ...arrington, Warrington|Warrington]], northwest [[England]], killing two children.
55: *[[1890]] - [[Beniamino Gigli]], Italian tenor (d. [[1957]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (...
64: *[[Isaac Barrow]] (England, [[1630]] - [[1677]])
67: *[[Thomas Bayes]] (England, [[1702]] - [[1761]])
77: *[[Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch]] (England, [[1891]] - [[1970]])
113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]])
92: *[[James Bradley]] ([[England]], [[1693]] – [[1762]])
98: *[[Ernest William Brown]] ([[England]], [[1866]] – [[1938]])
140: *[[Thomas George Cowling]] ([[England]], [[1906]] – [[1990]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...r 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher...
10: ...es was born in [[Malmesbury]], [[Wiltshire]], [[England]] on [[April 5]], [[1588]]. His father, the [[...
14: ...ranslation of that work into [[English language|English]]. Hobbes believed that Thucydides' account of...
20: ...mechanical action was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in anot...
22: ...tial political doctrine was not shaped by the [[English Civil War]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
462: *[[Hugo Dingler]], (1881-1954)
536: *[[Herbert Feigl]], (1902-1988)
597: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
638: *[[Joseph Glanvill]], (1636-1680){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
639: *[[Ernst von Glasersfeld]] - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
36: ...greatest typhoon frequency exists within the triangle from southern Japan to the central Philippines t...
46: ...asin is almost entirely submerged. The great triangle of [[Polynesia]], connecting [[Hawaii]], Easter ...
53: ...and trade; [[Abel Janszoon Tasman]] discovered ([[1642]]) [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]]. The [[18th c...
55: ... made by the voyages of the [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] in the [[1830s]], with [[Charles Darwin]] ab... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
9: ...tions and institutions of stature), but also strongly segregated into different fields of study. The s...
15: ...f science is a major factor in its historical and global development, as though science is hypothetica...
31: ...istence and approval of a political sponsor; in England, the [[Royal Society]] operates under the aegi...
39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
53: ...ple simultaneous discovery is actually a surprisingly common phenomenon, perhaps largely explained by ...
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