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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
12: ...er, his eyes were stabbed out. An [[solar eclipse|eclipse of the sun]] and a darkness of seventeen days' du... - Impatiens (2161 bytes)
14: ...r. They can exist both in, and out, of direct [[sunlight]].Common names in North America include impat...
18: ... annual or perennial herbs with succulent stems. Only a few woody species exist. Plant size varies dep...
26: * Eclipse - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ... have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flowers and seeds in...
44: The plant is probably a total loss unless tufted.
106: *Total Eclipse F<sub>1</sub> Hybrid - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
7: The only work of Aristarchus which has survived to the pr...
11: ... ancient times, which is why stellar parallax is only detectable with [[telescope]]s. But the [[geocen...
17: ...oving through the Earth's shadow during a [[lunar eclipse]]. He estimated that the diameter of the Earth wa... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
15: *The [[lunar eclipse]] is always circular.
17: *Some stars can only be seen from certain parts of the earth.
25: ...]. This would, in turn, eventually lead to [[the Enlightenment]] a concern for scientific accuracy and... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
21: ...or Egypt for its first 3000 years. Not a single [[eclipse]] record has been utilized from that period so fa...
31: ... not swallow the moon" (Kitchen, 1973: 331). This eclipse has not been utilized by historians so far, regar...
33: ...ustes]] (fl. 540-550 CE) has listed several lunar eclipses given by Egyptian dates (month and day) scattere... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...olar system]]'s [[terrestrial planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms ...
14: ...Earth (the summit of [[Mount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mar...
55: ...he heat flow from the interior to the surface is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from th...
68: ...Since the average density of surface material is only around 3000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, we must conclude t...
80: ...geodyn/poster2.html]. Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly. - Ra (2793 bytes)
8: ...to protect Ra was said to be the cause of [[solar eclipse]]s, and difficulty in doing so was said to cause ... - Hathor (11883 bytes)
4: ...milky way]], which was seen as the milk of a heavenly cow. Her name refers to her position as the cele...
20: ...ned. The tale is thought also to describe a solar eclipse, as it depicts Ra, the sun, going away to sulk, a...
22: ...nusual by Egyptian artistic conventions, indeed, only she and [[Bes]] were ever depicted in this manne...
49: ...rring to [[Bedhet]], where the view was most commonly held, or as ''Ihy'', referring to his aspect as ... - Alyattes II (1682 bytes)
3: ...]] against [[Cyaxares]], king of Media, a [[solar eclipse]] took place (see also [[Thales]]); hostilities w... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
15: ...metal, larger than the [[Peloponnesus]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth ...
30: ...ork of arrangement, the segregation of like from unlike and the summation of the omoiomere into
32: ... no less illimitable than the chaotic mass, but, unlike the Intelligence of [[Heraclitus]], it stood p...
34: Its first appearance, and the only manifestation of it which Anaxagoras describes, ...
39: Every ''a'' of this present universe is only ''a'' by a majority, and is also in lesser numbe... - Sun (20830 bytes)
135: [[Image:SunLayers.png|thumb|left|220px|Structure of the Sun]]
147: The core is the only part of the Sun where an appreciable amount of h...
162: ...space and its energy escapes the Sun entirely. Sunlight has a [[black-body]] spectrum that is charact...
168: It is about 4,000 [[kelvin]]s. It is the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple mo...
173: ...at the beginning and end of [[solar eclipse|total eclipses of the Sun]]. - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...was [[Mariner 10]] ([[1974]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
9: ===Temperature and sunlight===
10: ...adiation]]; not [[climate]] or [[season]]). The sunlight on Mercury's surface is 6.5 times as intense ...
28: ...ls 42% of the planetary [[volume]] (Earth's core only fills 17%). Surrounding the core is a 600 km [[m...
36: ... also remarkable in that it has an axial tilt of only 0.01 degrees, which is over 300 times smaller th... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
11: ...ief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared to the other pupils, an outsi...
13: ... observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being...
27: ... she refused to confess to the charges. However, only the courageous personal intervention of Kepler (...
40: ...t eliminate the irregular solids, because we are only concerned with orderly creation. There remain si...
46: ...served that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation [[Ophiuchus]]. (It... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
26: * [[January 15]] - First round of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 200...
27: ...anuary 29]] - Second round (if needed) of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 200...
37: * [[March 29]] - Total [[solar eclipse]] ([[Brazil]], Mid [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] oc...
56: * [[September 22]] - Annular solar eclipse ([[South America]], [[Atlantic Ocean]], [[Indian ...
69: * [[Finland]] plans to cease [[analog television]] broadca... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
12: ...terested in [[astronomy]]. It was, however, the [[eclipse]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particul...
16: ... accuracy obtainable. He was able to improve and enlarge the existing instruments, and construct entir...
27: ...a nobleman and a commoner woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to th...
53: ...philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computational convenience that had no conne...
60: ...ications on the principle that the [[planets|heavenly bodies]] undoubtedly influenced (yet did not det... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
14: ...ent to [[Rome]], where he could observe a lunar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or ...
16: He would have then visited Frombork only in [[1501]]. As soon as he reached this town, he...
42: ...liocentric hypothesis did not survive, so we can only speculate about what led him to his conclusions....
49: ...ium coelestium'' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") in the year of his death [[1543]], eve...
53: ... than Ptolemy's. With this change his system had only uniform circular motions, correcting what seemed... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
20: ... in Munich lodgings to finish school, completing only one term before leaving school in spring 1895, w...
24: ...ched to the same section as Einstein, and as the only woman that year, to study for the same diploma. ...
33: ...for Einstein Studies at Boston University, Joffe only ascribed authorship to Einstein, as he believed ...
37: ...one. This is [[irony#irony of fate|ironic]], not only because Einstein is far better-known for relativ...
39: ...s to the "''Annalen der Physik''". They are commonly referred to as the "''[[Annus Mirabilis Papers]]... - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
11: ...calculations to predict [[solar]] and [[lunar]] [[eclipse]]s and to compile an [[ephemeris]] for the ''Benj...
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