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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ... was dissolved. They founded the colony in a location the company did not have rights to and later rea...
7: ...ected to various other terms until his death in [[1657]]. The patent of Plymouth Colony was surrendered ...
12: *[[European colonization of the Americas]]
13: *[[British colonization of the Americas]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...s with very different [[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|econ...
4: ...rnment on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ... interest in [[geography]] and an intellectual curiosity about the world that had subsided during the ...
11: ...[Portugal]] quickly mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divid... - Clock (10086 bytes)
9: ...big ones are in public places, e.g. a [[train station]] or [[church]]. A small clock is often shown in...
14: ...rations whether these be for alarms, event initiation or just to display the time of day.
18: ...ideal clock is more appropriately defined in relationship to the set of all physical processes.
21: This leads to the following definitions:
23: *A clock is a [[process|recurrent]], [[periodic]] [[process]] and a [[counter]]. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...tion]], he was well known also for his many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Frank...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [...
6: ==Biography==
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
23: ...y about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great d... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...tail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
6: ...d wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
8: ==Early life and education==
12: ...arl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
14: ...ory of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|English]]. ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... one of the key thinkers of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also known for inve...
4: ...ts on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ...rn thought that much later, impelled by the invention of the [[electronic computer]] and by the possib...
10: ==Biography==
11: ... Henry-Le-Grand]] at [[La Flèche]]. After graduation, he studied at the University of [[Poitiers]], e... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
3: == Foundation and early history ==
5: ...]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]]...
9: ...]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided into [[bailiwick]]s, which in t...
15: ... eventually pushed the Knights out of their traditional holdings in Jerusalem. After the fall of the K... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...n the development of [[science]], and asking questions about how science "works" both in a philosophic...
7: ...here was a considerable amount of cross-fertilization between distant groups and individuals.
9: ...isciplinary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ...was soon shut down by [[Pope Paul V]] under suspicion of [[sorcery]].
13: ...Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including a community open to and interested i... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systematics|biological systematics]].
5: ...sified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ... original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...ndash;1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advances in classification due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the fir... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
4: Robert Abbot received his education at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge Universit...
5: ...he apparently still served in [[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to...
7: ...and ''A Christian Family builded by God, or Directions for Governors of Families'' (1653).
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