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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ... in British history, largely as a result of her close friendship with [[Anne I of the United Kingdom|Q...
6: Close links with the Royal Family remained. In a move... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...]], and ended with the publication of the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[16...
3: ...ton was called a [[natural philosophy|natural philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and...
7: ... revolution was; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognit...
9: To most scientists who give the matter any thought, and ...
26: *Laws of hydrostatics - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
20: ...matsu|Uematsu, Nobuo]], (born 1959), Japanese composer
22: ...a, Kisshomaru]], (1921-1999), 2nd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
24: ...iba, Moriteru]], (born 1951), 3rd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
46: *[[Yoshijiro Umezu|Umezu, Yoshijiro]], Japanese general - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...]'', which contained a number of [[microscope|microscopic]] and [[telescope|telescopic]] observations,...
6: ...h Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedlam').
14: ...und microscopes in [[1590]]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstr...
16: ...talian mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier and may or may... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...rriculum of the time. He found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesti...
8: ... his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], [[Robert...
10: ...ydenham had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply...
12: ...f) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
4: ...d occupies around 150 sq km. It is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages s...
14: ...in Nairobi was bombed in [[August]] [[1998]] by [[Osama bin Laden]]'s terrorist group [[Al-Qaida]]. Se...
16: ... Service Commission]] rated Nairobi as among the most insecure cities in the world, classifying the ci... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
22: ...the new [[Ming Dynasty]] ended paper money, and closed much of Chinese trade.
24: ...'', a predecessor of the [[Bank of Sweden]], in [[1660]], although the bank ran out of coins to redeem i...
26: ...ronen), the devaluation of the [[Serbian dinar|Yugoslav Dinar]] in the [[1990s]], etc.
28: ... polymer banknote, the 1988 Australian $10 note]]Most banknotes are made of heavy [[paper]], sometimes... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...ational Portrait Gallery]]), in the famous [[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]...
4: ...ng of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's lega...
12: ...r, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study...
17: ...the black market in [[wool]], and later lost his position as an [[alderman]]. Some evidence exists tha...
21: ...d [[John Richardson (witness)|John Richardson]], posted bond that there were no impediments to the mar... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
19: *[[Carl Bosch]], (1872-1940), German chemist
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
80: *[[Friedrich Hoffmann]], (1660-1742), physician and chemist
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
5: * The northernmost point of the world is the [[North_Pole#Geographi...
6: ... given by medieval cartographers for the northernmost point of land.
7: ... southernmost point of the world and the southernmost point on land is the [[Geographic_South_Pole#Geo...
8: * The westernmost point on land, according to the path of the [[In...
9: * The easternmost point on land, according to the path of the [[In... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- )
83: *[[Alceo Dossena]] (1878 - 1937) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...n, we find that like-charged objects repel and opposite-charged objects attract one another. The magn...
8: ...for, though. There are other descriptions of supposedly electrical devices on [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptia...
10: ...ypes of electricity that would later be called ''positive'' and ''negative''. The [[Leyden jar]], a t...
12: ... (less frequently) who created the convention of positive and negative electricity.
16: ...rie Ampè²¥]], and [[Georg Ohm|Georg Simon Ohm]] whose work provided the basis for modern electrical te... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...questions about how science "works" both in a philosophical and practical sense.
7: ...tion. Still, there was a considerable amount of cross-fertilization between distant groups and individ...
9: ...ic content (experimental results, theoretical proposals, or literature reviews) are reported in [[scie...
13: ... 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse ...
15: ...ually centered around wherever it could find the most funding.
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