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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
188: *[[Jean Nicolet]], (1628-1642), early French explorer of the [[Old Northwest]]
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
52: ...with certainty to this period). We know that in [[1642]], when the [[civil war]] was just starting, Arte...
94: ...ia'', writing in a much different form, happened three years later. [[Anna Banti]] maintains a dialogu... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
121: * [[1642]]: [[Adding machine]]: [[Blaise Pascal]]
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
128: ... [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
133: ...14]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
263: *[[Anthony Christian]] ([[1945]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
51: ...ur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
52: *[[Christopher Cockerell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) &md...
93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
112: *[[John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
164: ...7) — reflecting telescope (which reduces [[chromatic aberration]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
22: On [[January 7]], [[1610]] Galileo discovered three of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]'s four largest ...
26: ...of sunspots led to a long and bitter feud with [[Christoph Scheiner]]; in fact, there can be little do...
70: ...navigation, the first practical method was the [[chronometer]] of [[John Harrison]].
72: ...t fully operational pendulum clock was made by [[Christiaan Huygens]] in the [[1650s]]. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: Sir '''Isaac Newton''' ([[25 December]] [[1642]] – [[20 March]] [[1727]] by the [[Julian c...
4: ...lour]]s observed when [[white]] [[light]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and n...
14: ...even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was t...
29: ...ethod" were superior, and were generally adopted throughout the English-speaking world. (Curiously, in...
36: ... of refractive properties became available, did achromatic lenses for refractors become feasible.) In ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: ...nk|This article covers the History of California through 1900; for events in the 20th century and beyo...
28: ...tories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels. He made it to the mouth of the C...
30: ...ries of romances that were very popular in Spain throughout the 15th, 16th and 17th century.
31: ...of Spain, Esplandian, the son of Amadis, travels through an island called "California" or "Califerne".
64: * [[1642]]: [[Luis Cestin de Canas]] - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: ...xact dates and [[Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often...
8: ...n phrases|titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shak...
12: ... individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study of considerable historical evidence...
21: ...n some haste in arranging the ceremony: Anne was three months pregnant. After his marriage, William Sh...
25: ...n a countrey." (The italicised line parodies the phrase, "Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide"... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
21: ...ot's spy career seems to have begun and ended in three years.
31: ...ent VIII]], hoping to make peace with the Church through a partial recantation. His trial, when it fin...
41: ..., the theories of [[Copernicus]] began diffusing through Europe. Although Bruno did not wholly embrace...
45: ...''sic''). [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) we...
49: ... uniform distance on a fixed sphere or scattered through an infinite universe. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
47: *[[Paul Ehrlich]], (1854-1915), German chemist, winner of the...
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemis...
130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
14: There are astronomical references of chronological significance in the [[Vedas]]. Some Ved...
16: ...haps [[1800 BC]]) advanced a 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon.
42: Ancient Chinese Astronomy dates back before Christ. Chinese Astronomers were to be able to predic...
50: ...slated into Arabic, used and stored in libraries throughout the area. The late [[9th century]] Islamic...
52: ...tury]], a huge [[observatory]] was built near [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], by the astronomer al-Khujandi who ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
3: ...[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He made three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its ...
20: ...hind [[Abel Tasman]] over a century earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastlin...
28: He then sailed through [[Torres Strait]] between Australia and [[New...
51: ...sable, although he made several attempts to sail through it. Cook became increasingly frustrated on t...
55: ... the expedition and made a final attempt to pass through the Bering Strait. The ''Resolution'' and ''... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: ...s the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]].
40: ... hours of the morning, the [[United States]] and three other countries begin military operations in [[...
74: *[[1925]] - [[John Ehrlichman]], American political figure (d. [[1999]])
107: ... - Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English physicist, (b. [[1642]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
10: *[[Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar]] ([[1930]] - )
93: *[[Harald Bohr]] ([[Denmark]], [[1887]] - [[1951]])
157: *[[Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] [[Germany]] ([[1829]]-[[1900]])
227: *[[Charles Ehresmann]] (France, [[1905]] - [[1979]])
268: *[[Chris Freiling]] (???) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[1...
79: *[[Alfred Bohrmann]] ([[Germany]], [[1904]] – [[2000]])
114: *[[Richard Christopher Carrington]] ([[Britain]], [[1826]] &ndas...
129: *[[James Christy]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1938]] – )
202: *[[Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)|Charles Fehrenbach]] ([[France]], [[1914]] – ) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...]], was forced to leave the town, abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Franci...
30: ...ting was begun in 1646 by [[Samuel de Sorbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a...
34: ...under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions. ...
42: ...s to be beyond a [[fear of violent death]]. When threatened with death, man in his natural state canno...
44: ...n). (A minor aside: Hobbes almost never uses the phrase "[[state of nature]]" in his works.) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
50: *[[Alexander of Aphrodisias]], (2nd century){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
145: *[[Christoph Gottfried Bardili]], (1761-1808)
218: *[[Niels Bohr]], (1885-1962){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
347: *[[Christine de Pizan]], (c. 1365-c. 1430){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]] - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
26: ...des because of abundant equatorial precipitation throughout the year. [[Poleward]] of the temperate la...
34: ...winds allow for relatively constant temperatures throughout the year of 21-27�C (70-81�F).
53: ...ce|French]] in Polynesia, and the British in the three voyages of [[James Cook]] (to the South Pacific... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
35: ...Generally speaking, there have historically been three major models adopted in various forms within th...
37: ...ge:Three models of theory change.png|right|frame|Three models of change in scientific theories, depict...
39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
41: ...s theory's accomplishments, each one essentially throws out the old way of looking at the universe, an...
45: ...eral, though, most float somewhere between these three models for change in scientific theory, the con...
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