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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...ern hemisphere|Western]]; [[religious]] and [[secular]]; have had their own unique schools of philosop...
7: ...ato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the late [[1400s]] and the [[Renaissance]]. The "Modern"...
10: ...Greek cities of western Asia Minor (Ionia) with [[Thales]] of Miletus, who was active around 585 B.C. and ...
12: ... than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusions they wished)...
14: ...philosophical questions. The theory fills in the blanks by saying that the Sophists' students wanted t... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: '''Cartography''' or '''mapmaking''' (in [[Greek language|Greek]] ''chartis'' = map and ''graphein'' ...
3: ...ingly dynamic, interactive maps that can be manipulated digitally. The cartographic process rests on t...
7: ...m BCE]]. The oldest maps emphasized topological relationships such as connectedness, adjacency, and co...
9: ...t Egypt|Egypt]]ians later used geometry to survey land and to resurvey it after the periodic flooding ...
11: ... be known today had Strabo not mentioned them). [[Thales]] of Miletus (c. [[6th century BCE|600 BCE]]) tho... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...pe of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
3: ==Scholarly task==
5: ...ms that exist with no satisfactory solution. Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology...
7: ...an, Persian, and Julian/Gregorian''. [http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Te...
9: ...y settle many of these questions while others may last for eternity. - Alyattes II (1682 bytes)
3: ...Media, a [[solar eclipse]] took place (see also [[Thales]]); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, ...
11: ...ery and charcoal. On the summit of the mound were large [[phallus|phalli]] of stone. - Anaximander (3421 bytes)
1: ...zen of [[Miletus]], and a companion or pupil of [[Thales]]. Little is known of his life and work. [[Aeli...
14: ...ough it could not be perceived directly, could explain the opposites he could clearly see around him.
28: ...'s (lost) history of philosophy, and re-quoted by later authors. - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
1: ...[[580s BCE|582 BCE]] – [[496 BCE]], [[Greek language|Greek]]:
2: ...tician]] and [[philosopher]], known best for formulating the [[Pythagorean theorem]].
6: ...s and his students believed that everything was related to [[mathematics]], and felt that everything c...
9: Pythagoras was probably born on the island of [[Samos]], off the coast of [[Asia Minor]]. ...
13: ...iples would sing hymns to [[Apollo]] together regularly; they used the [[lyre]] to cure illness of the... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
1: ...hales]] (circa 624-547 BC) dealing with spatial relationships. The earliest beginnings of geometry may...
5: ...ficant development had to wait until a millennium later, and that was [[analytic geometry]], in which ...
7: ... [[rotation]]s, and [[translation (geometry)|translation]]s.
9: ...E(n)). The latter point of view is called the [[Erlangen program]]. In general, the more congruences w...
11: ... Pick's theorem used dot paper and a certain formula to find the area of odd shapes. - Human (48024 bytes)
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21: ...with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]]s, [[orangutan]]s, and [[gibbon]]s.
24: ...apacity for abstract [[reason]]ing, [[speech]], [[language]], and [[introspection]]. A concept current... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ... despite orders from the Roman general, [[Marcus Claudius Marcellus|Marcellus]], that he was not to be...
4: ....com Classroom Clip Art]]]Archimedes became a popular figure as a result of his involvement in the def...
6: ...f Syracuse against the invading Romans was the [[claw of Archimedes]].
8: ...acking ships causing them to catch fire. This popular legend was tested on the Discovery Channel's ''M...
12: ...m the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so placed that the two horizontal distances mentioned in... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...ced. Intentional capacitors have thin conducting plates (usually made of metal) stacked or rolled to f...
7: ... the boundary with the dielectric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge, the ''tota...
9: ...or, the dielectric is in direct contact with the plates.)]]
13: ... or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ...t]] across the plates. Since the farad is a very large unit, values of capacitors are usually express... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: ...ophy''' derives from a combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''philos'' meaning [[love]] a...
5: ...any traditions spanning thousands of years often classifed by time period (e.g. ancient, medieval, mod...
13: ...alues absolute, or relative? In general or particular terms, how should I live?
17: ...y. [[Aristotle]], who was the first to use this classification (as he believed that to call himself a...
19: [[Image:laozi3.jpg|frame|right|[[Lao Zi]] ]] - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...f attraction or repulsion is given by [[Coulomb's law]]. Some electrical effects are discussed under ...
6: ...rigin of the word "electricity", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''ēlektron'' = "[[amber]]", wh...
8: ... believed by some to have been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence to i...
10: ... a type of [[capacitor]] for electrical energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Leiden Universit...
11: ...Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteratio...
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
20: *[[Yousef Alavi]]
29: ...nderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202) - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
4: [[Image:Chemistry_flask.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart...
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8: ...om a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been later connected with ancient Egypt through what ling...
11: ...ost basic scientific tools and practices were available, relying instead on [[rule of thumb|rules of t... - Miletus (2255 bytes)
4: ...is first mentioned in [[Hittite]] records as ''Millawanda''.
5: ...hittite king [[Mursili II]] (ca. [[1320 BC]]), Millawanda became a bridge-head for the expansion of th...
7: ...yout, planned by [[Hippodamos]], became the basic layout for [[ancient Rome|Roman]] cities. The city a...
9: ...have generally agreed that the Anatolian city ''Milawata'' mentioned in [[Hittite]] records should be ...
11: ...f philosophy and science, producing such men as [[Thales]], [[Anaximander]] and [[Anaximenes of Miletus|An... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: '''Hipparchus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] ''Ἳππαρχ&...
4: ...onomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we know comparati...
14: ...but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
18: ... island of [[Rhodes]], where he spent most of his later life — Ptolemy attributes observations t...
20: ...stellations: the globe carried by the [[Farnese Atlas]] [Schaefer 2005]. - History of geography (6224 bytes)
5: ... the [[periplus]], a description of the ports and landfalls a coastwise sailor would find along a coas...
17: ...[Royal Geographical Society]] was founded in [[England]] in [[1830]], although the United Kingdom did ...
19: ...zine which became and continues to be a great popularizer of geographic information. The society has l...
23: ...s, and leads to skepticism among many of them of claims of environmental influence on culture (such as...
25: ...egions. The philosophical basis of this field was laid out by [[Richard Hartshorne]]. - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
1: '''Hipparchus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] ''Ἳππαρχ&...
3: ...onomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we know comparati...
13: ...but it is not known if and when he visited these places.
17: ... island of [[Rhodes]], where he spent most of his later life — Ptolemy attributes observations t...
19: ...stellations: the globe carried by the [[Farnese Atlas]] [Schaefer 2005]. - Geography1 (26085 bytes)
1: [[Image:World-map-2004-cia-factbook-large-1.7m-whitespace-removed.jpg|thumb|290px|right|...
2: ... geography]] and [[physical geography]].<ref>web.clas.ufl.edu/users/morgans/lecture_2.prn.pdf.</ref>
5: ...ty of topics such as economics, health, climate, plants and animals, geography is highly interdiscipli...
7: ...|title=The History of Geography |publisher=Basil Blackwell |location=Oxford |pages=p. 66}}</ref>}}
9: ...? |work=AAG Career Guide: Jobs in Geography and related Geographical Sciences |publisher=Association o...
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