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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
9: *[[ɴienne Aignan|Aignan, ɴienne]], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright...
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: ...|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: ...eorge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ... of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was introduced to painting in her father's workshop, showi...
14: ...trial Tassi was imprisoned for just one year. The trial has subsequently influenced the [[feminism|fem...
16: ...um of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycologica...
18: ...became a successful court painter, enjoying the patronage of the [[Medici]] and [[Charles I of England...
24: ...hew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancest... - Circulatory system (8794 bytes)
7: #Delivery of [[oxygen]] and [[nutrient]]s to all parts of the body.
10: #Transport of [[hormone]]s.
22: ...diffusion]] of chemicals into or out of the bloodstream.
25: ...nutrients, water and oxygen without the need of a transport system.
30: ...st blood vessels, and are where the exchange of nutrients and gases takes place between the [[red bloo... - Printing (4400 bytes)
4: '''Printing''' is an [[industry|industrial]] process for reproducing copies of [[text]]s ...
6: ...rcial and industrial printer in the world is [[Montr顬]], [[Quebec]] based [[Quebecor World]].
11: ...k printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]], a Buddhist scripture). The [[...
13: ... printing technology diffused into Europe through trade links that went through [[India]] and on throu...
15: ...ng press in North America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ... were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[cap...
3: ...] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first...
7: ...e Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close li...
9: ...]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read throughout Europe.
11: ...difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic empires that had long battled the... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
3: ...] and [[limestone]]. It is tropical with constant tradewinds and consists of some [[marsh]]es and [[ma...
5: ...g to the [[UN]]'s [[UNDP]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major tourist des...
9: ... and the Salodoid-Barrancoid. For the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salo...
11: ...pon seeing the appearance of the island's [[fig]] trees, whose long hanging aerial roots he thought re...
13: ...66]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have...
12: ...micrographs. He coins the word ''cell'' for the structures he discovers in [[cork (material)|cork]] b...
14: ...[[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron microscope]].
15: ...]] in Physics for his invention of the [[phase contrast optical microscope]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ... a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
12: ...ave followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not comp...
14: ...s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|Eng...
16: ...re, died of the [[Bubonic plague|plague]] in June 1628. The widowed countess dismissed Hobbes but he soo...
20: ... with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...he Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
2: [[Image:Rene-Descartes-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descarte...
4: Descartes frequently contrasted his views with those of his predecessors. In...
6: ...uch later, impelled by the invention of the [[electronic computer]] and by the possibility of [[machin...
13: ...ntention was to see the world and to discover the truth. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...France to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importanc...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ...ance on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: Instructed by [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] to make a...
23: ...would become an exclusive warehouse for their fur trade and, in return, the Rouen merchants would supp... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...], who classified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ...bic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives....
11: ...he research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680)...
17: ...fetime (1st ed. 1735). He is best known for his introduction of a method of modern classification; he ...
19: ...cies. When a species is further subdivided, the [[trinomial nomenclature]] is used. For a scientific n... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
1: ...iew, in which factors such as destiny, sin, and astral influences played as great a part as any physic...
3: In this era, there was no clear tradition of scientific medicine, and accurate obser...
7: ...or disease could turn to folk medicine, prayer, astrology, spells, mysticism, or to an established [[p...
15: ... with the discovery of how the [[spinal cord]] controls various [[muscle]]s. From his dissections, he ...
17: [[Anglo-Saxon]] translations of classical works like [[Dioscorides]]...
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