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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
21: ... [[14th century]] Arab historian [[Ibn Khaldun]] ridiculed one where sea-monsters prevent the foundati...
29: ...itants was the geometer and number-theorist [[Euclid]]. From this division arose much of the later tur...
34: ...ed by [[Marc Antony]], for whose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who placed over it a prefec...
36: ...e regained its old prosperity, commanding, as it did, an important granary of Rome; this fact, doubtle...
42: ...ed throughout the Roman empire, pagan rituals forbidden under punishment of death, and libraries close... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
3: ...[[curve]]s, [[surface]]s, and [[solid geometry|solids]] to draw logical conclusions.
5: ...struct new geometries other than the standard Euclidean version.
7: ...''. In [[Euclidean geometry]], two figures are said to be [[congruence (geometry)|congruent]] if they...
9: ...cs)|group]] of transformations to work with (Euclidean geometry uses the inhomogeneous orthogonal tra... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...f [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aris...
10: ...mediately preceded Galileo, [[William Gilbert]], did not use a quantitative approach. However, Galileo...
14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling b...
18: ...rt treatise entitled ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' (''Sidereal Messenger'').
20: ...r]]. Galileo published a full description in ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' in March [[1610]].]] - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...arth]] at the center of the [[Universe]]), is considered one of the most important [[discovery (observ...
7: ...icus_00125w.jpg||thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
16: ...of his theory. His collection of observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]].
21: ...opernicus_22.jpg|thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
22: ... his friends. From there he continued gathering evidence for a more detailed work. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
13: ...his business to include a tailoring shop that provided jobs for 32 employees. The company made coats, ...
23: ...As the years went on, he became a prosperous and widely respected business man, and he was able to pur...
25: ...he same streets and roadways with pedestrians. Accidents were frequent. After witnessing a collision b...
27: ...gnal system on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Garrett A. Morgan applied fo...
40: * [http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WTD The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Water... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
124: *[[William Burnside]] (UK, [[1852]]-[[1927]])
187: *[[David van Dantzig]] (Netherlands, [[1900]] - [[1959]])
192: *[[Ingrid Daubechies]] ([[1954]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
95: *[[Aristides (Apologist)|Aristides]], (fl. 2nd century)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{f...
154: *[[Basilides]], (c. 117-138){{fn|C}}
159: *[[David Baumgardt]], (1890-1963){{fn|R}} - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ... plural, likewise with "Literature". This being said, "literatures" is also plural. However "Literatur...
11: ...cience fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
15: ...[romance (genre)|romance]] flourished from the [[Middle ages]] onwards, whereas the [[Age of Reason]] ...
27: ...entions come about as the result of historical accidents, where many speakers of a language associate ...
29: ...lly took verse form. This has now become rare outside [[opera]] and [[musical theater|musicals]], alth... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: ...crater)|Hipparchus lunar crater]] and the [[asteroid]] [[4000 Hipparchus]].
4: ...from [[147 BC]] to [[127 BC]]. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer, and by so...
20: ...by [[Aratus]] based on the work by [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]]. It was published by Karl Manitius (...
28: ...ences. However, achievements in these fields by middle-eastern civilizations, notably those in [[Baby...
32: ...]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned from the Chaldeans b... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: ...crater)|Hipparchus lunar crater]] and the [[asteroid]] [[4000 Hipparchus]].
3: ...from [[147 BC]] to [[127 BC]]. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer, and by so...
19: ...by [[Aratus]] based on the work by [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]]. It was published by Karl Manitius (...
27: ...ences. However, achievements in these fields by middle-eastern civilizations, notably those in [[Baby...
31: ...]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned from the Chaldeans b... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
3: ...ommunicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture|...
7: ...resources from which to draw are http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/sci/history/AHistoryofSc...
11: ...e [[Earth]]'s axis. Fifteen hundred years after Kiddinu, [[Al-Batani]], born in what is now Turkey, ...
28: ...B.C., due to the work of personalities like [[Euclid]], [[Archimedes]], [[Hipparchus]], [[Eratosthenes...
32: [[Euclid]]'s book ''Elements'' has been the most important... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ...vision of European history]]. Although the term 'Middle Ages' usually refers to [[European history]], ...
4: [[Western Europe]] entered the Middle Ages with great difficulties that affected the...
6: ...e]], and partly because of the [[stereotype]] of Middle Ages as supposedly "[[Dark Ages|Dark Ages]]".
8: ==The Middle Ages: Western World==
10: ===[[Early Middle Ages]]=== - Golden Ratio (15928 bytes)
3: ...es defined by the golden ratio have long been considered [[aesthetics|aesthetically]] pleasing in West...
5: ...he "golden mean" this way, "A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, ...
13: ...f the [[Greeks|Greek]] [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Phidias]], who was long believed to have used the gold...
17: Two quantities are said to be in the ''golden ratio'', if "the whole is t...
36: ...ge:Golden ratio line.png|right|frame|A line is divided into two segments <font color="blue">'''''a''''...
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