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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...ennings, Duchess of Marlborough''' ([[May 29]], [[1660]] - [[October 18]], [[1744]]), rose to be one of ... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...n. To some extent this arises from different conceptions of what the revolution was; some of the ranco...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This ...
33: ...ed during the fourteen centuries between them and Ptolemy. But for Kepler and Galileo a claim this bol...
40: ... millennia, the [[geocentric model]] had been accepted by all but a few astronomers. The idea that the...
42: ... the end of the 17th century it was generally accepted by astronomers. - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
88: *[[Thomas Urquhart|Urquhart, Thomas]] (1611-c. 1660) - 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]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...e]], and gained employment as his assistant. In [[1660]], he discovered [[Hooke's law]] of [[solid mecha... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...osophy]]. His ideas formed the basis for the concepts used in [[United States|American]] [[law]] and g...
6: ...in [[1632]]. His father, a lawyer, served as a captain of cavalry for [[Parliament]] during the [[Eng...
24: ...ong supporter of the [[Church of England]]. By adopting a [[latitudinarian]] theological stance, Locke...
31: ...are dependent on the ''primary qualities''. In Chapter xxvii of book II Locke discusses personal ident...
41: Locke's work, particularly the concepts of [[liberty]], later influenced the written wor... - 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...
10: ...tish]] passenger and [[mail]] route from [[Southampton]] to [[Cape Town]]. This route was served by [[... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ... cash forms of all modern [[money]]. With the exception of non-circulating high-value or precious meta...
11: ...tes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to precious metal. With the grad...
16: ...ney originated in two forms: drafts, that is receipts for value held on account, and "bills", which we...
20: ...iro]] systems of banking as early as Ptolemaic Egypt in the first century BC.
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: ...lliam Shakespeare''' (April [[1564]]; [[baptism|baptised]] [[April 26]], [[1564]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]])...
4: ...lled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world li...
8: ...y [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
14: ...ord dates to [[April 26]] of that year. Because baptisms were performed within a few days of birth, tr...
23: ...rd. A son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
80: *[[Friedrich Hoffmann]], (1660-1742), physician and chemist
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
16: ...omewhere at the bottom of the [[Arctic Ocean]] (depth ~4 km) near the [[North_Pole#Geographic_North_Po...
20: ... d|48|S|125|W|}}, which is approximately 2670 km (1660 mi) from the nearest land. It's in the middle of ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
121: *[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] (1938 - ) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
8: ...[[Dendera light]]. Other devices discovered in Egyptian and other archaeological digs have been allege...
10: ...tric'' and ''electricity''. He was followed in [[1660]] by [[Otto von Guericke]], who is regarded as ha...
22: ...f public opinion]] as to which system would be adopted as the standard for power transmission (known a...
24: ...Topsy the Elephant]]. AC power was eventually adopted as the standard. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
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...
48: ...y abuses of power by this authority are to be accepted as the price of peace. In particular, the doct... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
29: ...st the entirety of their fleet was destroyed or captured in what is now known as the [[Battle of Lepan... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
13: ... 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse ...
35: ...here have historically been three major models adopted in various forms within the [[philosophy of sci...
39: ...[falsification]] of incorrect theories and the adoption instead of theories which are progressively cl...
41: ...nt and [[incommensurability|incommensurate]] assumptions about the universe, and was uncertain about w...
43: ...sly thought to be "non-scientific" were later accepted as a valid part of scientific canon.
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