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- 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]]-) - 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... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
4: ===Latitude and longitude===
11: ===Altitude===
12: * The highest point is the summit of [[Mount Everest|Everest]]: 8,850 [[metre|m]] (...
14: ... below sea level. ''See [[List of places on land with elevations below sea level]]''
15: ...ng a perfect sphere), at 6384.4 km (Everest's summit is at 6382.3 km). - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: '''William "Captain" Kidd''' ([[1645]]–[[May 23]], [[1701]]) is often remembered...
4: ...s|Sir John Somers]]. According to Henry Gilbert writing in ''The Book of Pirates'', Kidd's backers wer...
6: ...was not able to find pirates to take in that vicinity. He became desperate to cover the costs of his e...
8: On October 30, [[1697]] a dispute broke out with one William Moore. Gilbert describes this argume...
10: ... tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners but they refused. - 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}}
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