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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
140: ...p it to [[Albany, New York|Albany]], discovered [[Hudson Bay]]
141: *[[Alexander von Humboldt]], (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored...
142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
188: *[[Jean Nicolet]], (1628-1642), early French explorer of the [[Old Northwest]]
192: *[[Hugh McNeil]], Lewis and Clark Party member - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: [[Image:GENTILESCHI Judith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[H...
9: [[Image:Susanna.jpg|left|thumb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collectio...
24: In Florence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia de...
30: ... was full of problems with creditors and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome...
40: ... she became friend with [[Cassiano dal Pozzo]], a humanist, collector and lover of arts. However, des... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
27: * [[Wine]] in [[Jiahu|Jiahu,China]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]])
535: *[[Hugo Heyrman]] ([[1942]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
35: *[[Hugo Borchardt]] (1844-1924) German–American i...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynch...
93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
132: ...Kotelnikov]] - [[Russia]]n inventor of the [[parachute]].
164: *[[Isaac Newton]], [[England]],(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the con...
10: ...ction of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in ...
20: [[image:galileo.script.arp.600pix.jpg|thumb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo fi...
43: ...s his assistant saw the flash, he would open his shutter. At a distance of less than a mile, Galileo c...
72: ...erational 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...
14: ...ears of age, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmot...
17: ...[[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
21: [[image:newton.jpg|thumb|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 po...
31: ...|nontrinitarian]] views and the orthodoxy of the church. - History of California (38344 bytes)
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California ...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
13: ...s now California. Among the tribes were the ''[[Chumash]]'', ''[[Maidu]]'', ''[[Miwok]]'', ''[[Modoc]...
19: ..., Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the...
47: [[Image:Island of California.jpg|thumb|300px|left|"California" shown as an island on t... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ue to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literatur...
16: [[image:Shakespearebirthplace.JPG|left|thumb|230px|The house in Stratford known as 'Shakespe...
29: ...e top of a list of actors in ''[[Every man in his Humour]]'' written by [[Ben Jonson]].
31: [[Image:Shakspeare signature.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Shakespeare's signature, from his w...
35: ...espeare was a tenant of Christopher Mountjoy, a [[Huguenot]] tire-maker (a maker of ornamental headdre... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: ...edom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
10: [[Image:GiordanoBrunomnemonic.gif|thumb|left|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giord...
31: ...pe Clement VIII]], hoping to make peace with the Church through a partial recantation. His trial, when...
33: [[Image:brunostatue.jpg|thumb|left|350px|The monument in Campo de' Fiori, in ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and minera...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
49: *[[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949)
130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
8: [[Image:Medieval_astronomer.jpg|thumb|250px|A medieval Astronomer. Image provided by ...
22: ... there wrote a text on astronomy, the ''[[Brahmasphutasiddhanta]]'' in [[628]].
46: ...ce of the [[Earth]] with great accuracy. [[Hipparchus]] made a number of important contributions, incl...
52: ... near [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], by the astronomer al-Khujandi who observed a series of meridian transits o...
57: ...0pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that ou... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by ...
10: [[Image:Nfld chartofcook.jpg|thumb|200px|James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland]]
14: Cook's huge achievements can be attributed to a combination...
20: ...hind [[Abel Tasman]] over a century earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastlin...
22: ...olony]] in Australia. However, when Captain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...760]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
11: ...volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
22: *[[1942]] – General [[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]], makes hi...
29: ...ss [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [[The Mall (Lon...
41: ...r quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
95: *[[Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai]] (Hungary, [[1775]] - [[1856]])
96: *[[Jᮯs Bolyai]] (Hungary, [[1802]] - [[1860]])
108: *[[Raoul Bott]] (Hungary, [[1923]]-)
139: *[[Arthur Cayley]] (Britain, [[1821]] - [[1895]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[2...
46: *[[Arthur Auwers]] ([[Germany]], [[1838]] – [[1915]]...
115: *[[C鳡r-Fran篩s Cassini de Thury]] ([[France]], [[1714]] – [[1784]])
138: *[[Arthur Edwin Covington]] ([[Canada]], [[1914]] – ... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: [[Image:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John M...
6: ...osophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was ...
10: ...brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport church from the age of four, passed to the [[Malmesbu...
14: ...uld not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable.
20: ... not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of B... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
59: *[[Louis Althusser]], (1918-1990){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
70: *[[Anaxarchus]], (fl. 340 BC){{fn|R}}
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
144: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (1915-1975) - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
9: ...c is not always peaceful. Many [[typhoon]]s and [[hurricane]]s batter the islands of the Pacific and t...
30: ...n and the other turns north to form the Peru or [[Humboldt Current]].
36: ...tern Pacific. Both areas are noted for their high humidity, considerable cloudiness, light fluctuating...
42: ... basaltic lavas gently flow out of rifts to build huge dome-shaped volcanic mountains whose eroded sum...
53: ...and trade; [[Abel Janszoon Tasman]] discovered ([[1642]]) [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]]. The [[18th c... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
11: ...ture was a prequisite for admission. It was soon shut down by [[Pope Paul V]] under suspicion of [[sor...
20: [[Image:Gutenberg.press.jpg|right|thumb|[[Johann Gutenberg|Gutenberg]]-era [[Printing p...
39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
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