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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...udith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on ca...
10: ...a]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...is promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial ...
16: ...ditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored in the [[... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
22: ... - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]]
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types
40: ...her von Braun]], (1912-1977), [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...thority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]], a mathe...
7: ...ved to the [[University of Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], an...
10: ...ted to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[A...
12: ...rements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Ko... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] ...
4: ...ht]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Baco...
6: ... when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of ...
14: ...on was two years of age, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of ...
19: ...ance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but N... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ... of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
10: ...e:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...sland]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin ...
13: ...ared, they found many [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes living in the p... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ... famous [[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
2: ...ht]], has a reputation as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], as well as one ...
4: ...th of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's legacy and influence contin...
8: ...f titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases|titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases]], and...
14: ...commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...Nolano''' or '''Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occ...
9: ...sm|pantheistic]] [[hylozoism]], and not the [[Trinity]].
13: ...left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] for the same reason and ab...
15: ...f mnemonics, but many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
17: ... summarizing some of his cosmological positions, titled ''Il Candelaio'' ("The Torchbearer"). - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
56: ... Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
66: ...ham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] not to be confused with:
72: *[[Fritz Haber]], (1868-1934)
75: *[[John Haldane]], British biochemist - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...ight|apparent height]]" of the [[noon]] [[Sun]], with respect to the changing [[pattern]]s of [[night]...
8: ...t is now called astrology. Ancient constructions with astronomical [[alineation]]s (such as [[Stonehen...
14: ...l basis, have been found in the third millennium cities of India. The texts that describe their design...
18: ...ology]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was written by [[Lagadha]].
20: ...s axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to the sun. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
3: ... three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[c...
7: ... day laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[Great Ayton]].
8: ...War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
12: ...ted in the siege of [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]] before the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]]... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: ...]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the [[Peacock Throne]]. ...
11: ...]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force ...
15: ...[[1899]] – At [[Sing Sing Correctional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes ...
19: ...lbert Einstein]] publishes his [[theory of relativity]].
20: ...SS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
4: ...lish (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[L...
6: ...] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] a...
12: ...f Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...n limit of the ocean is often placed at the [[Strait of Malacca]]. The lowest point on earth—the...
5: ...he rest of the world's oceans combined), the majority of which are found south of the equator. (See: [...
7: ...nd the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
9: ... the ocean. For most of his voyage from the [[Straits of Magellan]] to the [[Philippines]], Magellan i...
15: ...h of about 4270 m (14,000 ft). The major irregularities in the area are the extremely steep-sided, fla... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...], have in the [[20th century]] been preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends ...
7: ...ave improved tremendously over time. Instead of waiting months or years for a hand-copied letter to ar...
9: ... process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ...new law of nature was a prequisite for admission. It was soon shut down by [[Pope Paul V]] under suspi...
13: ...ted in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar with and more educated about the subject.
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