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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ...rthquake levelled it, was the Temple of Hera on [[Samos]], built about [[570 BC]] - [[560 BC]] by the arc...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s norma...
10: ...tect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Ro...
14: ...k his hints, to interpret the Ionic Order as matronly in comparison to the Doric Order, though not as ...
16: The [[Parthenon]], although it conforms mainly to the Doric order, also has some Ionic elements... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...] [[astronomer]] and [[mathematician]], born in [[Samos]], [[Greece]]. He is the first recorded person to...
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...
13: ...e duty of the [[Greek]]s to indict Aristarchus of Samos on the charge of impiety for putting in motion th... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
11: ...s cylindrical. In [[288 BCE]], [[Aristarchus]] of Samos was the first to say that the [[sun]] was the cen...
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... - Aeschines (2644 bytes)
11: ... a school of rhetoric. He afterwards removed to [[Samos]], where he died in the seventy-fifth year of his... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
22: ...[[Herma|hermai]], and Alcibiades was accused not only of being the originator of the crime, but also o...
26: ...n his absence and his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send ...
32: ...o no result he attached himself to the fleet at [[Samos]] which remained loyal to the democracy, and was ... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
9: ...e was born to the parents of Pythais (a native of Samos) and Mnesarchus (a merchant from Tyre). As a youn...
16: ...trayed on [[Roman empire|Roman]] [[coin]]s from [[Samos]]]]
23: ...thematikoi'' held that the ''akousmatikoi'' knew only the outer form of the doctrine, but they themsel...
31: ...ophical and mathematical training. Evidence certainly suggests that the Egyptians had advanced further...
39: ...e oath of the Pythagorean Brotherhood [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html]. - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra...
45: [[Plutarch]] wrote that Aristotle not only imparted to Alexander a knowledge of ethics and ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
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....
46: ... the earth, and some even say that Aristarchus of Samos was of that opinion." For reasons unknown he cros...
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... - 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]])
590: *[[Pythagoras]] of Samos (Greece [[582 BC|582 B.C.]] - [[496 BC|496 B.C.]]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
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]]) - 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}}
859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]]
1106: *[[Melissus of Samos]], (late 5th century BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
5: ... allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leade...
13: ...Piraeus]]. The Spartans also occupied Attica for only a few months at a time; in the tradition of earl...
49: ...de some money and 100 ships that were to be used only as a last resort.
51: ... the Athenian fleet, now based on the island of [[Samos]], refused to accept the change. In [[411 BC]] th...
63: ...[[battle of Aegospotami]], destroying 168 ships; only 12 Athenian ships escaped, and several of these ... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
9: ...[[Chios]], another extends across [[Euboea]] to [[Samos]], and a third extends across the [[Peloponnese]]... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
20: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
22: ...Cicero]] gave preferences to [[Aristarchus]] of [[Samos]]. Some put in this place also Ptolemy of Alexan...
32: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
51: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
19: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
21: ...Cicero]] gave preferences to [[Aristarchus]] of [[Samos]]. Some put in this place also Ptolemy of Alexan...
31: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
50: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
7: ... referred to as an island continent, although Greenland is usually considered the largest island
63: *[[Greenland]]
110: ...- [[Brunei]] and [[Malaysia]] and [[Indonesia]] (only island in the world shared by three countries)
182: *[[Samos]]
215: ...4</sup> The Crown Colony of [[Hong Kong]] covers only [[Hong Kong Island]] from 1841 to 1860. [[Kowloo... - Roman commerce (14626 bytes)
29: ...ike grain and construction materials were traded only by sea routes, since the cost of sea transportat...
56: ...)]; one who met him in Spain in 25 BC, and one at Samos in 20 BC.
69: ...ercury (mythology)|Mercury]], who was originally only the god of the mercatores and the grain trade{{F...
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