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- Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ded with that of [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[...
7: ... teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explored ...
10: ... the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejection of blind allegi...
12: ...ime, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law...
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...fundamental matters as diverse as [[reality]], [[knowledge]], [[meaning]], [[value]], [[being]] and [[...
10: ...ft us the opaque dictum, "All is water." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[...
12: ...wn (perhaps unjustly) for claiming that truth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argu...
14: ...were well paid by their students. It's also well known that orators had tremendous influence on Atheni...
16: ... matters like justice, beauty and truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was execute... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...e a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female arti...
12: ...ino Tassi]] to decoration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospiglios...
18: ..., Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently ...
20: ..., Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
24: ...sy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancestor, he asked Artemisia to realize a pa... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming that the pro...
3: ...led a [[natural philosophy|natural philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experiment...
9: ...ere with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing, or the like.
15: ...omy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contributions to science.)
20: *Uniform acceleration of falling bodies (Galileo) - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...nvented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practi...
96: * [[1128]]: [[Cannon]] in [[History_of_China|China]]
99: ...lasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
111: * [[1581]]: [[Pendulum]]: [[Galileo Galilei]] - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...phere), as well as the connected processes and phenomena.
3: ...rater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedal...
5: ...e the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
7: ==Divisions of astronomy==
8: ...s are now more easily determined, and modern astronomy concerns itself much more with trying to observ... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...emnants of the [[protoplanetary disc]] which were not incorporated into planets during the system's fo...
4: ... by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the...
6: ...the solar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ... distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Earth's atmospher...
10: ...cts in our system, and [[minor planet]] for a taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include astero... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...anet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often described as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[c...
5: ...r edges of such nebulae are [[temperature|cool]] enough that [[water]] exists in a [[solid]] (rather t...
9: ...he tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...[[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Museum, scene 1}}
13: ...thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...istory of science''' traces these [[phenomenon|phenomena]] and their pre-cursors back in [[time]], all...
4: ...ed to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancien...
6: ...phy also enquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these field...
11: ...to emphasize the "human component" to scientific knowledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientif...
13: ...sive, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form ... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...ng. [[Meteorological phenomenon|Meteorological phenomena]] are observable weather events which illumin...
10: ...stial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical phenomenon)|halo]] around the moon, without bothering with ...
12: ...ate instruments were available. [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] constructed a [[thermometer]] in [[1607]], foll...
14: Other technological advances that are usually thought of mainl...
18: [[Synoptic]] weather observations were still hindered by... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
1: '''[[Timeline]] of [[microscope]] [[technology]]'''
6: ...609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with a convex and a conc...
7: * [[1612]] - Galileo presents ''occhiolino'' to [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Sigismund I of Swed...
10: * [[1624]] - Galileo presents his ''occhiolino'' to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accad...
15: ...ernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]], [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for his invention of the [[... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
40: ... and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ded with that of [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[...
7: ... teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explored ...
10: ... the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejection of blind allegi...
12: ...ime, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...rough a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claime...
6: ...f cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles...
14: ...unty of [[Lincolnshire]].Newton was premature and no one expected him to live. His mother also said th...
19: ...e kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...[[mathematician]] and [[astrologer]]. He is best known for his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|law...
4: ...]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
6: ... renamed [[Johannes Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum ...
9: ... City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [[Stuttgart Region]] in the German s...
13: ...k at it." At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], re... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
77: * [[Jan Kochanowski]]
89: * [[Angelo Poliziano]]
99: * [[Szymon Szymonowic]]
109: ...owy Wiśnicz.jpg|thumb|right|[[Maciej Tropola]] [[Nowy Wiśnicz]]]] - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...erm '''microscopic''' means minute or very small, not easily visible with the unaided eye. In other wo...
11: ...of short [[focal length]] for the objective, and another single glass lens for the [[eyepiece]] or ocu...
16: [[image:Microscope.png|frame|none|Basic microscope main elements]]
20: #objective turret, or nosepiece
22: #coarse adjustment knob - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
8: ...s (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few ...
10: ... the world we see is but an imperfect copy. Such knowledge has ethical as well as scientific importanc...
12: ...t, unpublished texts. These were probably lecture notes or texts used by his students, and were almost...
14: ...ractically comprise an [[encyclopedia]] of Greek knowledge.
21: ...or a plain and unadorned (though not easy) style; not one is a dialogue. Some lost works of Aristotle ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
5: ...ndar based on Venus's motion) and must have been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it...
7: ...ith [[sexually transmitted disease]]s. Some astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cyt...
14: ...ion of its dense atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sid...
16: ...er to the Sun than Earth, the surface of Venus is not as well heated and even less well lit by the Sun...
18: ...oud tops, but winds at the surface are very slow, no more than a few kilometres per hour. However, owi... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
6: ...="2" | [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] J2000)
9: ...412,027]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>5.203 363 01 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
26: ! align="left" | [[Synodic period]]
41: ...the ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
88: ! align="left" | [[Right ascension]]<br>of North pole - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
6: ...="2" | [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
9: ...725,413]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>9.537 070 32 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
26: ! align="left" | [[Synodic period]]
41: ...the ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
88: ! align="left"| [[Right ascension]]<br>of North pole
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