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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...e of Marlborough]], and they made a glittering couple. Churchill, though he had supported James, also...
4: ...ut the Duke died in [[1722]] and never saw the completion of [[Blenheim Palace]], the house built for ...
6: ...e prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...began with the discoveries of [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and others at t...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
33: ...beyond real dispute. If you measure what either Kepler or Galileo discovered against everything discov... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named U ==
45: ...aga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
59: ...|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player
88: *[[Thomas Urquhart|Urquhart, Thomas]] (1611-c. 1660) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-)
959: *[[Jan Bogumil Plersch]] ([[1732]]-[[1817]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...mental scientists of the [[seventeenth century]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolut...
4: ...ell]]'' -- so called because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also i...
8: ...resents Robert Hooke, and a seal used by Hooke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Ho...
14: ...ompound microscope]], a design consisting of multiple lenses (usually three - an eyepiece, a field len...
20: ...ed Newton's presentation showing that [[prism]]s split white [[light]] rather than modifying it. Newto... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ...ightenment|Enlightenment]] period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]]...
6: ...us [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to ...
10: ...losophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human...
14: ...household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the reader of the... - 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...
6: ...built in the early [[1900s]] after an outbreak of plague and the burning of the original town. Therea... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
7: ...y occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of exchange.
9: ...a Hours]] which are backed by the labor of the people of [[Ithaca, NY]].
11: ...ls from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money.
18: ...l capital and precious metals having a privileged place in the economy.
24: ...'', a predecessor of the [[Bank of Sweden]], in [[1660]], although the bank ran out of coins to redeem i... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...tyle|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of al...
4: ...und the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[tragedy]] an...
6: ...Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His p...
8: ...d the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
12: ...ree that William Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose l... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
80: *[[Friedrich Hoffmann]], (1660-1742), physician and chemist
142: *[[John Pople|John A. Pople]], (1925-2004), [[theoretical chemistry|theoreti...
143: *[[Roy J. Plunkett]], (1910-1984), discoverer of [[Teflon]]
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistr... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
14: ... 417 [[metre|m]] below sea level. ''See [[List of places on land with elevations below sea level]]''
20: ... d|48|S|125|W|}}, which is approximately 2670 km (1660 mi) from the nearest land. It's in the middle of ...
27: Some people, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, have claimed a certain... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
263: *[[Andreas Schlueter|Andreas Schlüter]] (1660 - 1714)
325: *[[List of people by occupation]] - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...le]]s (e.g. [[electron]]s / [[proton]]s) which couples to [[electromagnetic fields]] and causes attrac...
3: ...e [[quantity of electricity]] or charge. For example, "''Q'' = 0.5 C" means "the quantity of electric...
8: ...s believed by some to have been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence to ...
10: ...tric'' and ''electricity''. He was followed in [[1660]] by [[Otto von Guericke]], who is regarded as ha...
22: ...and other effects (some have been duplicated or explained; and others which have not). Nikola Tesla, i... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]])
572: *[[Michel Plancherel]] (Switzerland, [[1885]] - [[1967]]) - 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... - 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: ... 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse ...
25: ...to remember memorable events more easily. For example, the [[Chinese]] [[generation name]]s are taken ...
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