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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...ghts to and later reached an agreement with the [[Plymouth Council for New England]] which had been gr...
3: ...2 [[Pilgrims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod B...
5: ...tts Bay Colony]] got its new charter in [[1691]], Plymouth ended its history as a separate colony.
7: ... of land. On [[March 22]], 1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with [[Massaso...
9: ...ristol County]], [[Plymouth County, Massachusetts|Plymouth County]], and [[Barnstable County, Massachu... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ... [[Renaissance]], a development that encouraged exploration and colonization in many ways. A revival ...
11: ...power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to ...
13: ...ed States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. T...
16: ...lation]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts. - Clock (10086 bytes)
9: ...clock is often shown in a corner of [[computer display]]s or [[mobile phone]]s.
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time.
14: ...ese be for alarms, event initiation or just to display the time of day.
35: ==Displays==
43: ...lars to believe that these tower clocks did not employ hands or dials, but ?told? the time with audibl... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...blic servant]], [[scientist]], [[librarian]], [[diplomat]], and [[inventor]]. One of the leaders of th...
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
11: ...ld at Ecton; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half-sibli...
25: ...y earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
27: ...o included works on history, geography, poetry, exploration and science. The success of this library e... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...Ren頄escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ... Earl of Devonshire, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismisse...
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
4: ... to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insi...
14: ...eling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering var...
18: ...ege of La Rochelle]] by Cardinal [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]]....
20: ... the [[Catholic Church]], and Descartes abandoned plans to publish ''[[The World (Descartes)|Treatise ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
565: *[[Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle]], (1657-1757){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
884: *[[Joachim Jungius]], (1587-1657){{fn|R}}
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ... the past few centuries. In antiquity, the few people who were able to engage in natural inquiry were ...
9: ... publishing process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication pr...
11: ...ed the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The...
13: ...]]. The [[Accademia del Cimento]], [[Florence]] [[1657]], lasted 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[Lo...
25: ...to remember memorable events more easily. For example, the [[Chinese]] [[generation name]]s are taken ... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...tency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]]...
11: ... first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[...
13: ...ed, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences tha...
21: ...sy to identify unambiguously any given species of plant or animal. He proceeded further to introduce i...
23: ...a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the two-part scientific name makes it po... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
5: ...he apparently still served in [[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to...
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