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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: .... After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her su...
42: ...o famous in Rome); the "Venere Dormiente" (''"The Sleeping Venus"''), today at [[Princeton]]; the [[Es...
52: ...with certainty to this period). We know that in [[1642]], when the [[civil war]] was just starting, Arte... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
121: * [[1642]]: [[Adding machine]]: [[Blaise Pascal]]
281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]]
303: ...]) [[electric motor|induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
151: *[[Elijah McCoy]] — son of former slaves, patented many [[lubrication]] devices
164: *[[Isaac Newton]], [[England]],(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces...
173: *[[Slavoljub Eduard Penkala]], (1871-1922), [[Croatia]]...
186: ...]], [[United States|USA]] — automatic bread-slicing machine - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
30: Galileo observed the [[Milky Way]], previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a mu...
37: ...e thing: falling or rolling objects (rolling is a slower version of falling) are [[acceleration|accele...
39: ... Aristotelian hypothesis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. Th...
43: ...onclusion on whether light propagated instantaneously, he recognized that the distance between the hil... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...hey both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
29: ...ted throughout the English-speaking world. (Curiously, in Germany the Newtonian notation is more popul...
38: ... colour was caused by pressure on the eye, Newton slid a darning needle around the side of his eye unt...
75: ...intended as sinecures, but Newton took them seriously, exercising his power to reform the currency and...
77: In [[1701]] Newton anonymously published a law of thermodynamics now known as "... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabit...
19: ...President of [[New Spain]]) was told by an Indian slave of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had str...
23: ...[[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja Califor...
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ated the peninsula and sailed as far as [[Cedros Island]]. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ... felt in all parts of the globe. He has been translated into every major living [[language]], and his...
39: ...onnets|sonnets]] were published, love poems variously addressed: most to a youth (or [[Fair Lord| 'fai...
65: ...nterregnum (England)|Interregnum]] stage ban of [[1642]]—[[1660]], the new [[English Restoration|R...
67: ...lone's]] ''Variorum Edition'' (published posthumously in [[1821]]) is still the basis of modern editio...
75: ...works attributed to him. This scepticism is variously grounded: the lack of a single book to be found ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
21: ... UP, 2002), makes a case that Bruno is the previously unidentified 'Henry Fagot' whose reports to Fran...
27: ...t some of its strength, and he concluded, erroneously, that it might now be safe to return to Italy.
45: ...''sic''). [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) we... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist
130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist
182: *[[Miha Tisler]], (born 1926), chemist. - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
50: ... the motion of celestial bodies. His work was translated into Latin in the [[12th century]].
57: ...0pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that ou... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
20: ...ch separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not guessed at.
26: ...nd [[June 11]], [[1770]]; ''Endeavour'' was seriously damaged (and his voyage delayed almost 7 weeks) ...
39: ...vered [[South Georgia]] and the [[South Sandwich Islands]]. In the Antarctic fog, Cook and Furneaux we...
41: ... he landed at the [[Friendly Islands]], [[Easter Island]], and [[Vanuatu]], in [[1774]]. His return h...
49: ...mbia|Yuquot]] in [[Nootka Sound]] on [[Vancouver Island]], although he unknowingly sailed past the [[S... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
32: ...st woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod]] [[dog sled]] race.
52: *[[1856]] - [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], inventor and efficiency expert (d. [[...
58: ...- [[Ruby Muhammad]], American matriarch of Black Islam
65: *[[1915]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]])
107: ... - Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English physicist, (b. [[1642]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
44: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]]-[[1087]])
105: *[[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] (Poland/Russia/Germany [[1868]] ...
260: *[[Franc Forstneric]] (Slovenia, [[1958-]])
317: *[[John Hammersley]] - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [[1087]])
67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] – [[1965]])
104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] – [[1921]])
133: *[[Andrew Ainslie Common]] ([[Britain]], [[1841]] – [[1903]...
162: *[[Henri-Alexandre Deslandres]] ([[France]], [[1853]] – [[1948]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|English...
30: The [[English Civil War]] broke out in [[1642]], and when the Royalist cause began to decline f...
36: ...d Politick]]''). In [[1651]] he published his translation of the ''[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''...
62: ...exposed by Wallis, before allowing an English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to appear in 1656. But...
64: ...ized the opportunity given him by the English translation of the ''De Corpore'' to re-confront Hobbes ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
597: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}} - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
5: ... are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
9: ... by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole towns.
15: ... the sea as island groups, such as the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[New Zealand]], and deep trenches, suc...
28: ...n in the Bering Sea. Its southern arm becomes the slow, south-flowing California Current.
34: ...rature. Closer to the equator, where most of the islands lie, steadily blowing trade winds allow for r... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ... in relative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of communication. Still, there was a consid...
39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
43: ...ed that many forms of knowledge which were previously thought to be "non-scientific" were later accept...
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