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- History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...riod Sima Qian relates that a system of inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]]...
28: ... the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun their rule under a semi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power...
36: ...s soon as the Qin reign ended, the Qin imperial structure collapsed. The [[Qin Dynasty]] is well know...
44: ...n the midst of land acquisitions, invasions and struggles of [[consort clan]]s and [[eunuch]]s. The [[...
63: ...Northern Dynasties]], a sequence of local regimes ruling over regions north of [[Yangtze River|Yangtze... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...y under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial Tassi was imprisoned fo...
20: ...[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known ...
24: ...ew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancesto...
36: ...n home and raising her daughters. In addition to Prudenzia (born from the marriage with Pierantonio St...
52: ... [[Naples]] again, corresponding with Don Anontio Ruffo of [[Sicily]] who became her mentor and good c... - Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ...zed comes from the fibres triangular prism-like structure, which allows silk cloth to refract incoming...
30: ...ially in [[Lyon]]. The [[French Revolution]] interrupted production before [[Napoleon]] took power.
36: [[World War II]] interrupted the silk trade from Japan. Silk prices increa...
43: ...e of boiling silkworms alive in their cocoons is cruel.
60: * Liu, Xinru. 1996. ''Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Mat... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
55: ...s "Low-lands") and is famous for its [[Dike (construction)|dike]]s, [[windmill]]s, [[Clogs|wooden shoe...
66: ...set-inflation bubble, the [[tulipomania]] of 1636-1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's firs...
68: ... branch of the Nassau family, which are still the ruling family in Luxembourg today.
72: ...boring countries, mainly due to its unique infrastructure of waterways and reliance on windpower. Afte...
75: ...eing used instead of the [[United Kingdom]], or [[Russia]] instead of the defunct [[Soviet Union]]. In... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
37: ...thirteen colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]]. It originally c...
44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachus...
72: ...nd. Among the other islands in the Bay are Hope, Prudence, and Despair.
97: ...he nation. It is unknown whether or not this is true. The state that is considered to be the most [[...
194: ... (minor league hockey) affiliate of the [[Boston Bruins]] - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
34: *[[1637]]-[[New Haven Colony]] founded - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
16: ...aris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ... be regulated if Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite th...
22: ...1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philoso...
32: ... [[1647]], Hobbes was engaged as mathematical instructor to the young [[Charles II of England|Charles,...
36: ...'[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society''. Meanw... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: .../deˈkaʁt/}}, [[March 31]] [[1596]] – [[February 11]] [[1650]]), also known as ''Cartesius'', w...
6: ...etry]], that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] and [[an...
13: ...tention was to see the world and to discover the truth.
14: ... Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences''){{ref|DM}}
26: René Descartes died on [[February 11]], [[1650]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], w... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
7: In 1172 Ibn Rushd ([[Averroes]]), who was a judge (Qaadi) in [[S...
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
13: ... classification of plants in his [[Historia Plantarum]] was an important step towards modern taxonomy....
21: ...al adjective, sometimes with another, so that no true names were fixed and accepted. Linnaeus' system ...
53: ..., is currently under development, but many of its rules are in conflict with established codes of nome... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''...
5: ...nical means using one of the above mentioned instruments, the measure is read off a finely marked dat...
7: ==Construction==
8: The indicating scale is constructed with its zero point coincident with the start...
11: On instruments using decimal measure, as shown in the diagr... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
7: ...ith%20papyrus&ct=]</sup> Although the [[Ebers papyrus]] (ca [[16th century BC|1550 BC]]) contains inca...
17: ...middle axioms'' building on the lesser, are "the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the...
20: ...t general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, pr...
22: ...the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."''
23: ...uiding principles. The following quote from his [[1637]] treatise, ''[[Discourse on Method]]'' presents ... - Opera (25153 bytes)
5: ...y a [[musical ensemble]] ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic [[orchestra]].
11: ...singing in opera are accompanied by [[musical instrument]]s, though until the late 18th century genera...
20: ...members of the Camerata felt certain that the "chorus" parts of Greek dramas had been originally sung,...
22: ...or-more-part madrigal) a less active supporting structure. From this, it was only a small step to ful...
24: ...xture, and dancing accompanied by the present instrumentalists. The intermedi tended not to tell a st... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
6: ...and]] along with parts of modern [[Swedish Ingria|Russia]], [[Swedish Pomerania|Poland]], [[Bremen-Ver...
8: ...aunched from the port of [[Gothenburg]] in late [[1637]]. [[Samuel Blommaert]] assisted with the fitting...
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