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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler
48: *[[Abd-ar-rahman V]], (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
14: ... outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments.
16: ...s other significant achievements include the construction of the first [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian...
22: ...tween the men grew worse as time progressed. In [[1679]], Hooke wrote to Newton advocating an [[inverse ... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...ity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[l...
27: ...finite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serierum et fluxionum'' (''On the Methods of Series and F...
36: ...lescope]]s, he was able to produce a superior instrument to the refracting telescope, due primarily to...
40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]:
46: ... reason of it being then unknown; which makes me trust the more to his experiment, though I have not t... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
12: ...e advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an ope...
16: ... southern [[France]]. He returned to England in [[1679]] when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a br...
24: ...lieved, the national church could serve as an instrument for social harmony.
27: ...bulk of the writing took place in the period from 1679-1682. It was therefore much more of a commentary ...
31: ... diversity. Locke also distinguishes between the truly existing ''primary qualities'' of bodies, like ... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...he pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...an and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cruised to [[Manila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]], t...
20: ...'' foundered near [[Ascension Island]] on [[21 February]] [[1701]] and the crew were marooned there fo...
24: ... his return Dampier was [[court-martial]]led for cruelty. On the outward voyage Dampier had crewman Ge...
37: ...as more successful: Selkirk was rescued on [[2 February]] [[1709]], and the expedition amassed nearly ... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
25: ...ey]], and thus part of neither region, though in truth the city has more communication and transportat...
32: ... become Trenton was established by [[Quakers]] in 1679, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaw...
42: ...e time as a major manufacturing center for steel, rubber, wire, rope, linoleum and ceramics.
50: ...wntown. The presence of these workers has proven crucial to the survival of many of Trenton's restaura... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Pol...
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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
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) - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
9: ...s [[pressure cooking|pressure cooker]] in about [[1679]]. Sir [[Samuel Morland]] also developed ideas fo...
19: ...great deal of experience and codification of construction, operating, and maintenance procedures.
26: *''Fire tube'' construction is typical of early maritime installations f...
30: ...ease the rate of burning; the boiler must be constructed to get that extra heat to the water. An engin...
55: ... high torque at low speed and maybe decreased at cruising speed for economy of operation, and by chang...
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