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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]]
161: ...René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle]], (1643-1687), French explorer of the Mississippi basin
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
241: ...René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]], (1643-1687) French merchant and explorer, explored [[Great L... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Throne. It was for this reason that the [[Parliament ...
17: ...ism on his deathbed), Anne's father ascended the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Cathol...
19: ...[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and her descendants were to be ...
26: ...dants, who descended from [[James I of England]] through [[Elizabeth of Bohemia]]. Several genealogica...
31: ...-year-old [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] on the throne.) England had also been angered by Louis XIV'... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ary, a [[Protestantism|Protestant]], came to the Throne following the [[Glorious Revolution]], which r...
15: ...preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the [[Louis, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphin Louis]...
17: ...husband. She did not enjoy a happy marriage; her three pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth....
20: ...into negotiations with Mary's husband as early as 1687. After James took the suicidal step of forcing An...
26: ...icated the government of the realm, and that the Throne had thereby become vacant. Parliament offered ... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
42: ...[Ptolemy|Ptolemaic]] theory of the solar system. Through their combined discoveries, the heliocentric ...
46: ...evolutionised by people like [[Robert Hooke]], [[Christiaan Huygens]] and, once again, Isaac Newton, w...
54: ...t changes were in the way that science was done. Three main developments can be identified as [[mathem...
66: ...f systematic experimentation was slowly accepted throughout the scientific community. Bacon's philosop... - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...e visible from the [[Earth]] when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting s...
17: ...the solar wind: when highly charged [[ions]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with come...
21: ... to other [[star]]s as the Sun follows its orbit through the [[Milky Way]] [[Galaxy]]; the Sun's hypot...
31: ...his remains today. A comet is named after up to three independent discoverers. In recent years, many ...
33: ...very in 1969). Once the comet had been observed through perihelion and its orbit had been established... - History of science (41710 bytes)
13: ...hn]], who argued that scientific knowledge moves through "[[paradigm shift]]s" and is not necessarily ...
29: ... astronomical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no knowl...
40: ...ophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strange paradox: classical Greek...
61: ...y observations. For example, an [[arrow]] flying through the air after leaving a bow contradicts with ...
63: ...ilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]] in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...]], Hooke won a place at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford | Oxford]]. T...
6: ...e also achieved fame as the chief assistant of [[Christopher Wren]], helping to rebuild London after t...
12: ...so have invented the [[balance spring]] before [[Christiaan Huygens]]. Devices known as escapements re...
14: ...new microscope designs to the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]], this attribution appears incorrec...
20: ...able to grasp his ground-breaking discovery, and threatened to leave the Royal Society. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...Principia Mathematica]]'' (published [[5 July]] [[1687]]<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>), where he...
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 ... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
21: Internally, the cella was lined on three sides with a [[frieze]] showing the great proce...
29: ... the Parthenon was converted to a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[church]]. In [[Byzantine]] times it was...
33: In 1687 the Parthenon suffered its greatest blow when the...
43: ...up the path at the western end of the Acropolis, through the restored [[Propylaea]], and up the Panath...
45: ...marble by [[acid rain]] polluted by car exhausts threatens the remaining sculptures and the temple its... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...journalist]], [[publisher]], [[author]], [[philanthropist]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[public s...
11: ...on; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half-siblings of Be...
13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph...
36: ...ries that gave him a reputation with the learned throughout Europe.
63: ...llion#The Paxton Boys' Uprising|Paxton affair]], through which he lost his seat in the Assembly, but i... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
30: *[[1981]] - Three workers are killed and five injured during a te...
92: *[[1687]] - [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], explorer (b.... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
11: ...eden|Gustav IV Adolf]] to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] throne.
96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] ... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
36: ...Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]",... - 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]] – ) - 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]] - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
47: ... of Europe felt threatened by its steady advance through the [[Balkan Peninsula|Balkans]]. At its heig...
53: ...ed in the middle of East and West and interacted throughout its six-century history with both the [[Ea...
59: Through a series of reforms, the empire continued to ...
66: ...defeated by the [[Allies]] in the [[Balkans]], [[Thrace]], [[Syria]], [[Palestine]] and [[Iraq]] and ...
76: ...res and religions, especially as compared to the Christian West. Early on the Turks drove the Byzantin... - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...l inland in present-day [[Iraq]], south of the Euphrates on its right bank at {{coor dm|30|95|N|46|5|E...
9: ...|Early Dynastic Period III]], the city was again thriving. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[...
15: ...rat, were built and [[agriculture]] was improved through [[irrigation]]. His code of laws (a fragment ...
24: ...]'' 9:7, a single passage mentioning Ur is a paraphrase of ''Genesis.''
26: ...ook of Jubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of ... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
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108: The [[Czochralski process]] is often used to make high-purity ... - Physics (25628 bytes)
19: ...eory|chaos]] was discovered in the 20th century, three centuries after the original formulation of cla...
37: | [[Path integral formulation]], [[Schr�dinger equation]], [[Quantum field theory]]
86: ... today. There were exceptions and there are [[anachronism]]s: for example, the [[Hellenic civilization...
88: ...tions. An example of this is an [[arrow]] flying through the air after leaving a bow contradicts with ...
91: ...ilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]] in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]] (dates disputed).
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