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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...ist [[Puritan]] sect, who obtained a land patent from the [[London Virginia Company]] in [[1620]] befo...
3: ...ims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in s...
7: ...ected to various other terms until his death in [[1657]]. The patent of Plymouth Colony was surrendered ...
9: The colony contained roughly what is now [[Bristol County, Massachusetts|...
12: *[[European colonization of the Americas]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ... Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] each came to the new co...
4: ...features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different ...
8: ===Europe===
9: ...ring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...lear that the first nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit ... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...ment, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour c...
12: It may also be used to ''control'' a device according to time, e.g. an alarm cloc...
14: ...rch projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain tim...
18: ...fined in relationship to the set of all physical processes.
23: ...clock is a [[process|recurrent]], [[periodic]] [[process]] and a [[counter]]. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ... Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the fi...
4: ...theter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [...
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
11: In around [[1677]], Josiah married a one Anne Child at E... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...obbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Po...
6: ...contemporary of [[Ren頄escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations....
10: ...Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil and around 1603 he was sent to Oxford and entered at Magd...
12: ...sh, 3rd Earl of Devonshire|William Cavendish]], Baron of Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl...
14: ...t democratic government could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was...
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4: ...gustine]]. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the [[Scholasticism|Schools]] on two major point...
6: ... [[Turing test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
11: ...e [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand]] at [[La Flèche]]. After grad... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...id to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military...
5: ...e of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soo...
9: ...h located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], ...
15: ... surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the ... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...le amount of cross-fertilization between distant groups and individuals.
9: ...linary limitations to the scientific publication process.
13: ...[[Berlin]] [[1700]]. Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including a community op...
15: ...pe, in a practical sense it has usually centered around wherever it could find the most funding.
17: Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including a community op... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian...
5: ... known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classif...
7: In 1172 Ibn Rushd ([[Averroes]]), who was a judge (Qaadi) in [[Seville]], tra...
9: ... scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). G...
11: ...694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702). - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...misunderstanding probably stems from a passage in Robert Abbot's work ''A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe ...
4: Robert Abbot received his education at [[University ...
5: ...1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...ariety. In addition to those mentioned above he wrote ''Triall of our Church-Forsakers'' (1639), ''Mi...
9: Authorities.--.Brook's Puritans, iii. 182, 3; Walker's Sufferings, i...
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