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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
77: ...Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York]], ca. [[1628]]-[[1635|35]].
88: ...ncommon and difficult choice, but also not an exceptional one. Before Artemisia, between the end of t... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
20: ...(consisting of two chambers). In amphibians and reptiles, a [[double circulatory system|''double'' cir...
35: ...nables the release of [[carbon dioxide]] and the uptake of oxygen from the air. The now oxygenated bl...
46: There are two exceptions to the system of double circulation.
61: ...d pools in the veins after death, arteries look empty. Ancient anatomists assumed they were filled wi...
67: ...ing through '[[pore]]s' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary ar... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]], a Buddhist scripture). The [[movable type]] printer was invented by...
15: ...ng press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
63: * [[PostScript]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
16: ...nchor'' by [[Andries van Eertvelt]], painted c. [[1628]] shows the famous carrack of [[Christopher Colum...
33: ... The combined empires were simply too big to be kept unchallenged, and to resist those challenges.
35: ...remained in Portuguese possession. The Dutch attempted to conquer Brazil, and at one time controlled a... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
13: ...pendence in [[1966]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always ...
21: ...[[self-governing colony]]. Following several attempts to form another federation composed of Barbados ...
52: ...rism, consumer spending and the impact of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], but the economy rebounde...
63: ...reserves, jewelry stores, [[scuba]] diving, helicopter rides, [[golf]], [[festival]]s, sight seeing, c...
118: ...s), it is normal for a driver's assistant to attempt to escort you to his vehicle. This can sometimes ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have...
15: ...hysics for his invention of the [[phase contrast optical microscope]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
14: ...and Latin authors, the outcome of which was, in [[1628]], his great translation of [[Thucydides]]'s [[Hi...
16: ...re, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismissed Hobbes but he soo...
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
26: ...cept for a short treatise on optics (''Tractatus opticus'') included in the collection of scientific t... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
18: ...Richelieu]] in [[1627]]. He left for Holland in [[1628]], where he lived and changed his address frequen...
22: ...cine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[1635]] and baptized on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in...
30: ...e was interred in a graveyard mainly used for unbaptized infants in [[Adolf Fredrikskyrkan]] in Stockh...
35: ...s, he employs a method called [[methodological skepticism]]: he doubts any idea that can be doubted.
46: ...as he did, and the [[rationalist]] answer to [[scepticism]] which other rationalists have elaborated o... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
642: *[[Rudolph Goclenius]], (1547-1628){{fn|C}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...rence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called...
19: During the summer of 1608, Champlain attempted to form better relations with the local Indians...
23: ...ry, he returned to France in an unsuccessful attempt, with de Monts, to renew their fur trade monopoly...
29: ...eutenant-general's name, to appoint “such captains and lieutenants as shall be expedient,”...
33: ...veled the [[Ottawa River]] giving the first description of this area. It was in June that he met with... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
11: ...he research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680)...
19: ...Ray's conception of species, but he made the concept a practical reality by insisting that every speci...
21: ...another, so that no true names were fixed and accepted. Linnaeus' system made it easy to identify unam...
51: ... at least two centuries. It is now generally accepted that classification should reflect the Darwinia...
76: |[[Diptera]] - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
15: Starting in the areas least affected by the disruption of the fall of the western empire, a unified t...
74: ...he balance of humours. Physicians could also attempt surprisingly complex operations like [[trepanatio...
94: ...n the Fabric of the Human Body". Much later, in [[1628]], [[William Harvey]] explained the [[circulation...
102: ...f [[Castile]], [[Spain]]. Deadly [[epidemic]]s swept across the [[Caribbean]]. Smallpox wiped out [[vi...
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