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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...e [[13th century BC]] and takes the form of inscriptions of divination records on the bones or shells ...
50: ...89. "South China under the Later Han Dynasty" (Chapter One from ''Generals of the South: the Foundatio...
51: ...Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, ...
55: ....'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han...
56: ...'' Draft annotated English translation. [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue... - 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...
81: ...apoli|Museo Capodimonte]], [[Napoli]], [[1636]]-[[1637|37]].
88: ...ncommon and difficult choice, but also not an exceptional one. Before Artemisia, between the end of t... - Silk (8683 bytes)
8: ...rst evidence of the silk trade is that of an [[Egypt]]ian [[mummy]] of [[1070 BC]]. In subsequent cent...
30: ...lly in [[Lyon]]. The [[French Revolution]] interrupted production before [[Napoleon]] took power.
33: ...adopted the practice. In the [[1800s]] a new attempt at a silk industry began with European-born worke...
36: [[World War II]] interrupted the silk trade from Japan. Silk prices increase...
57: ....'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
66: ...set-inflation bubble, the [[tulipomania]] of 1636-1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's firs...
145: ...on [[January 1]] [[1999]] along with the other adopters of the single European currency, with the actu...
146: ... was 1,2 %[http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/table.aspTT=2&LA=nl&DM=SLNL&PA=70145ned&D1=4&D2=0&D3=25,38,5...
315: ...onsider themselves to be members of a church. Excepting the secular populations, the part of the count... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
42: ... declared it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historically, the land is unique b...
44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachus...
54: In 1664 the seal of the colony was adopted. It pictured an anchor and the word 'HOPE.'
62: Several attempts had been made to address this problem, but none ...
108: ...Protestant denominations in Rhode Island are: [[Baptist]] (6% of the total state population), [[Episco... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
34: *[[1637]]-[[New Haven Colony]] founded
38: ...[[1639]]-[[Fundamental Orders of Connecticut]] adopted
49: *[[1662]]-[[Half Way Covenant]] adopted - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
16: ...aris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
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...
46: ...is negative version of the [[Golden Rule]], in chapter xv, 35, reads: "Do not that to another, which t... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
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...
52: ...cartes also made contributions in the field of [[optics]], for instance, he showed by geometrical cons... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
559: *[[Robert Fludd]], (1574-1637){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
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]] - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
11: ...e calls the ''essence'' of things. Using the concept of essence, Aristotle reconciles abstract thought...
13: .... In the [[17th century]], [[Francis Bacon]] attempted to describe a rational procedure for establishi...
17: ...hod made progress "by successive steps not interrupted or broken, we rise from particulars to lesser a...
23: ...'[[Discourse on Method]]'' presents the four precepts that characterize a scientific method:
25: :''"The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to... - Opera (25153 bytes)
20: ...|Camerata]]". Significantly ''Dafne'' was an attempt to revive the classical [[Greek tragedy|Greek dra...
22: ...tended to set humanist poetry of a type that attempted to immitate [[Petrarch]] and his [[Trecento]] f...
33: ...ithin-an-opera." One reason for this was an attempt to attract members of the growing merchant class,...
45: ...anguage|French]], was founded by Italian [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]]. Lully arrived at court as a dancer a...
47: ...se of the chorus (which the French had at least kept tepidly alive while it had been almost completely... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ...olony existed from [[March 29]], [[1638]], to [[September]] [[1655]].
8: ...aunched from the port of [[Gothenburg]] in late [[1637]]. [[Samuel Blommaert]] assisted with the fitting...
14: ...tal of over a million Swedes moving. With the exception of Ireland, no other country had a higher perc...
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