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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - 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...
22: ...tween the men grew worse as time progressed. In [[1679]], Hooke wrote to Newton advocating an [[inverse ... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...sopher]], and [[alchemist]] who wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (publis...
4: ...also notable for his arguments that light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]...
6: ...describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entiret...
19: ...versity]] at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss St...
23: ...obtained his degree in [[1665]], the University closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague... - 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. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...mnavigation: in [[1679]] he accompanied a raid across the [[Dari鮠Province|Isthmus of Dari鮝] in [[P...
9: ...t'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling...
11: ... via the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of his journals.
22: Although many papers were lost with the ''Roebuck'', Dampier was able to save m...
32: ...fied: ''Cinque Ports'' did sink with the loss of most of her crew. Selkirk was marooned for five years... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
25: ...r it part of [[South Jersey]] and as the northernmost city of the [[Delaware Valley|Delaware Valley me...
27: ...wo maximum security units and houses the state's most dangerous criminals, is also located in Trenton.
32: ... become Trenton was established by [[Quakers]] in 1679, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaw...
36: ... 26]], [[1776]], Washington and his army, after crossing the icy Delaware River to Trenton, defeated t...
52: ...ficials seeing as how Trenton High is one of the most beloved and historic [[edifices]] in the city at... - 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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{... - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: ...expands and pushes against a piston or turbine, whose motion does the work to turn the wheels.
9: ...s [[pressure cooking|pressure cooker]] in about [[1679]]. Sir [[Samuel Morland]] also developed ideas fo...
15: ...d that descended the shaft to a pump chamber. The oscillations of the operating rod are transferred to...
19: ...ters due to exploding boilers and machinery. The most important refinement at this point was the [[saf...
28: ...' boiler the water is heated in multiple tubes exposed to the hot gases. The tubes are joined to a ste...
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