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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
    90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
    131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
    148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
    188: *[[Jean Nicolet]], (1628-1642), early French explorer of the [[Old Northwest]]
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
    34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
    42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
    46: ...ated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some other journe...
    52: ...with certainty to this period). We know that in [[1642]], when the [[civil war]] was just starting, Arte...
  3. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
    121: * [[1642]]: [[Adding machine]]: [[Blaise Pascal]]
    311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
    321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
    394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]]
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    976: *[[Andrea Pozzo]] ([[1642]]-[[1709]])
    1014: *[[Guido Reni]] ([[1575]]-[[1642]])
    1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
    1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
    113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed
    164: *[[Isaac Newton]], [[England]],(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces...
  6. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
    24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
    39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
    41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
    43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl...
  7. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: Sir '''Isaac Newton''' ([[25 December]] [[1642]] – [[20 March]] [[1727]] by the [[Julian c...
    4: ...[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperb...
    36: ... primarily to the wider diameter of the mirror. (Only later, as glasses with a variety of refractive p...
    73: ...om [[1689]] to [[1690]] and in [[1701]], but his only recorded comments were to complain about a cold ...
    95: ...rsity. His writings on this topic were published only posthumously.
  8. History of California (38344 bytes)
    64: * [[1642]]: [[Luis Cestin de Canas]]
    86: ... San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá]] (the only Franciscan mission in all of Baja California) an...
    90: ...lation "California" which had previously applied only to the Peninsula now called [[Baja California Pe...
    134: ...erican War]], this grew slowly with emigration mainly from the United States. The Republic, under Pres...
    143: ... north of the Bay's mouth. San Diego Bay is the only natural harbor in California south of San Franci...
  9. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    6: ...ly impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.
    14: ... and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is a...
    35: ...er, Belott sued his father-in-law for delivering only part of the dowry. Shakespeare was called to tes...
    41: ...of some, he took a neutral position, making sure only that his own income from the land was protected....
    63: ...n an expensively produced folio in [[1623]] (the only precedent being [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''Workes'' of [...
  10. Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
    35: ...is theological beliefs were also a factor. Also, unlike Galileo, he refused to renounce his beliefs.
    45: ...''sic''). [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) we...
    47: ...ental]] [[God]], not part of the universe, a motionless [[prime mover]] and [[first cause]].
    55: ...n of the planetary spheres, considered Earth the only possible realm of [[life]] and [[death]], and a ...
    57: ...eavens, an immanent God rather than a remote heavenly deity.
  11. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist
    174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [...
  12. History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
    57: ...ved around the Sun and not the Earth, as was commonly believed then.]]
    83: ... [[Milky Way]], as a separate group of stars was only proven in the 20th century, along with the exist...
  13. James Cook (14770 bytes)
    20: ...apped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistakes (such as calling [[Banks Peninsul...
    26: ...collections of Australian flora and there were mainly peaceful meetings with the local Aboriginal peop...
    28: ...een Australia and [[New Guinea]], again becoming only the second European to do so (the first being [[...
    41: Cook almost discovered the mainland of [[Antarctica]], but turned back north towar...
    49: ... way discovering what came to be known as [[Cook Inlet]] in [[Alaska]].
  14. March 20 (10075 bytes)
    107: ... - Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English physicist, (b. [[1642]])
    131: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/20 Today in History: March 20]
  15. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
    443: *[[Ernst Leonard Lindel? (Finland, [[1870]] - [[1946]])
    528: *[[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (Finland, [[1895]] - [[1980]])
    555: *[[Paul Painlev靝 (France, [[1863]] - [[1933]])
    655: *[[Seki Kowa]] (Japan, [[1642]] - [[1708]])
  16. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    220: ...[Galileo Galilei]] ([[Italy]], [[1564]] – [[1642]])
    437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
    465: *[[John Stanley Plaskett]] ([[Canada]], [[1865]] – [[1941...
    523: *[[Frederick Hanley Seares]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1873]] &ndas...
    598: *[[Yrj?is䬤]] ([[Finland]], [[1891]] – [[1971]])
  17. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    22: ...e of the [[Short Parliament]] he had written not only his ''[[Human Nature (book Hobbes)|Human Nature]...
    24: ...f remarks on other works by Descartes succeeded only in ending all correspondence between the two.
    26: ... in November [[1641]], although it was initially only circulated privately it was well received. He th...
    30: The [[English Civil War]] broke out in [[1642]], and when the Royalist cause began to decline f...
    52: ...he ''Leviathan'' describes such a situation, but only in order to criticise it; second, Hobbes himself...
  18. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
    313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    597: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
    1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]]
  19. Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
    34: Only the interiors of the large land masses of [[Aust...
    53: ...and trade; [[Abel Janszoon Tasman]] discovered ([[1642]]) [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]]. The [[18th c...
  20. Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
    23: ...he [[Ishango Bone]] dated 25,000 years ago could only show [[Tally marks|tallies]] in [[mathematical n...
    26: ...5]] AD in China. It was brought to Western world only in the [[13th century]].
    39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
    51: ...riment]].) Without this information, it is very unlikely that Einstein would have conceived of anythi...
    55: ...rb from materials that are being burned. It was only several years later that [[Antoine Lavoisier]] f...

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