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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
10: ...Greek cities of western Asia Minor (Ionia) with [[Thales]] of Miletus, who was active around 585 B.C. and ...
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
42: ... Reason" or "Early Modern Philosophers" and "The Enlightenment", another author might write from the p...
46: ...of the [[American Revolution]] are part of [[The Enlightenment]]. - Cartography (10500 bytes)
11: ... be known today had Strabo not mentioned them). [[Thales]] of Miletus (c. [[6th century BCE|600 BCE]]) tho...
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)
33: [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] placed the [[eclipse of Thales]] (May 585 BCE) in the eighth or twelfth year of ... - Alyattes II (1682 bytes)
3: ...Media, a [[solar eclipse]] took place (see also [[Thales]]); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, ... - Anaximander (3421 bytes)
1: ...zen of [[Miletus]], and a companion or pupil of [[Thales]]. Little is known of his life and work. [[Aeli...
6: ..., and which he probably invented) is an endless, unlimited mass ([[apeiron]]), subject to neither old ...
14: ...s found in nature — for example, water can only be wet, never dry — and therefore, it can ... - Pythagoras (10747 bytes)
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...
35: ...eometry, classical Greek writers tended to cite [[Thales]] as the great pioneer of this science rather tha...
39: ...e oath of the Pythagorean Brotherhood [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html].
52: ''Only a few relevant source texts deal with Pythagoras... - Geometry (3634 bytes)
1: ... in [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] culture by [[Thales]] (circa 624-547 BC) dealing with spatial relatio... - Human (48024 bytes)
43: ...ace''. Until the [[20th century]], ''human'' was only used adjectivally ("pertaining to mankind"). Nom...
54: ...piens sapiens''. They are usually considered the only surviving species in the genus ''[[Homo (genus)|...
116: ...[[bonobo]], or pygmy chimpanzee. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed...
124: ...in the animal kingdom. Certainly, humans are the only technologically advanced animal. Along with neur...
146: ...an survive for over two months without food, but only up to around 14 days without water. (See also [[... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
8: ...s and very close to shore for them to ignite, an unlikely scenario during a battle.
12: ...nd 3 + 10/71. He was the first, and possibly the only, [[ancient Greece|Greek]] mathematician to intro...
24: ...les, [[paraboloid]]s, and [[hemisphere]]s. Using only [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[geometry]], h...
26: ...nd the planets (i.e. an [[orrery]]). He credits [[Thales]] and [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] for construct...
28: ...ysis]] had been carried out successfully. We can only speculate about the effect that the "method" wou... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
72: Unlike capacitors that use a bulk dielectric made fro...
80: ... very low impedance at low frequencies. However, unlike aluminum electrolytics, they are intolerant of...
94: *In a capacitor [[microphone]] (commonly known as a condenser microphone), the diaphragm ...
103: ...es, unlike conventional batteries which last for only a few hundred or thousand recharge cycles. But c...
122: Capacitors are commonly used in [[Power supply|power supplies]] where th... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
17: ... and [[aesthetics|aesthetic]]. They are not the only subjects of philosophical inquiry. [[Aristotle]...
39: ...hy about driving on highways"). This is also commonly referred to as a ''[[worldview]]''.
75: ...rs do; similarly the school of [[Carvaka]] was openly [[atheist]]ical and [[empirical]]. However there...
100: ...e. Important pre-Socratic philosophers include [[Thales]], [[Anaximander]], [[Anaximenes]], and [[Heracli...
214: ...by Edward Craig, Luciano Floridi (also available online by subscription); or - Electricity (13894 bytes)
6: According to [[Thales|Thales of Miletus]], writing ''circa'' [[600 BCE]], a fo... - 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]])
690: *[[Richard P. Stanley]] (USA, born [[1944]]) - 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]]
1252: *[[Richard Stanley Peters]], (born 1919){{fn|O}} - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
33: ...emy developed its own philosophical system, with only superficial connections to the major Western rel...
54: ... philosophers, which in turn have often survived only in Islamic translations.
56: ...ca]]'' of Thrice-Greatest Hermes, which is known only through Greek and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] tra...
58: ...he purpose of hermetical science: "in truth certainly and without doubt, whatever is below is like tha...
63: ...principle)|natural laws]] that can be determined only through careful, thorough, and exacting philosop... - Miletus (2255 bytes)
11: ...f philosophy and science, producing such men as [[Thales]], [[Anaximander]] and [[Anaximenes of Miletus|An... - 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...
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 ...
105: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min). - History of geography (6224 bytes)
5: ...philosophy]], with major contributors including [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Herodotus]], [[Eratosthenes]], [[... - 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...
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 ...
104: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min). - Geography1 (26085 bytes)
113: ...t that allowed the early measurement of latitude. Thales, Anaximander is also credited with the prediction...
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