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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...ad allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to st...
16: ...g ''[[Giuditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored ...
18: ...anged for his daughter to marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly ...
20: ... [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
26: ...man who holds a compass. It is believed that the attractive woman resembles Artemisia itself, who - as... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
121: * [[1642]]: [[Adding machine]]: [[Blaise Pascal]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transi...
60: *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], (1834-1900), [[Germany]] — [...
65: ... [[James Dewar]], (1842-1923) — [[Thermos bottle]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
7: He attended the [[University of Pisa]], but was forced t...
10: ...h) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in matters of science and to the separation of science fr...
14: ...licated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was co...
22: ... they would occasionally disappear; something he attributed to their movement behind Jupiter. He made ... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of dif...
19: ...other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html]
25: ...s is an exaggeration of Newton's own tale about sitting by the window of his home ([[Woolsthorpe Manor...
29: ... twenty-five years of his life were marred by a bitter dispute with [[Leibniz]], whom he accused of pl...
40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]: - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in t...
13: ...s]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found many [[Native American...
19: ...silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a w...
50: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc...
64: * [[1642]]: [[Luis Cestin de Canas]] - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: ...y of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific o...
8: ...h-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations f...
14: ...ormed within a few days of birth, tradition has settled on [[April 23]] as his birthday. It provides a...
19: ...neven. It is presumed that the young Shakespeare attended this school, since he was entitled to, altho...
29: ...t of actors in ''[[Every man in his Humour]]'' written by [[Ben Jonson]]. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
9: ...mes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes Trismegistus]] were, in Bruno'...
13: In [[1576]] he left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] fo...
15: ...ut many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a ...
25: ...the [[Martin Luther|Luther]]ans, continuing the pattern of Bruno's gaining favor from lay authorities ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of...
74: *[[Otto Hahn]], (1879-1968)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...[noon]] [[Sun]], with respect to the changing [[pattern]]s of [[night]]time [[star]]s. Eventually [[na...
8: ...|250px|A medieval Astronomer. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]Early...
18: ...logy]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was written by [[Lagadha]].
57: ...0pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that ou...
73: ... around the world, few students of astronomy can attribute the works to their authors. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
12: ...st of [[Newfoundland]], which brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
14: Cook's huge achievements can be attributed to a combination of excellent [[seamanship...
20: ...hind [[Abel Tasman]] over a century earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastlin...
28: ...ts name to the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']], as well the Endeavour River.
32: ... [[Joseph Banks]] was a bigger hero. Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, bu... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
17: ...list party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
22: ...alia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippin...
29: *[[1974]] – A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness [[Anne, Princes...
30: *[[1976]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of the armed robbery of... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
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10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
150: *[[William Rutter Dawes]] ([[Britain]], [[1799]] – [[1868]]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
6: ...s other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-...
12: ...have followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not com...
22: ...by the time of the [[Short Parliament]] he had written not only his ''[[Human Nature (book Hobbes)|Hum...
26: ...he first two sections of his work and published little except for a short treatise on optics (''Tracta...
30: The [[English Civil War]] broke out in [[1642]], and when the Royalist cause began to decline f... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
9: ... peaceful. Many [[typhoon]]s and [[hurricane]]s batter the islands of the Pacific and the lands around...
13: == Ocean bottom ==
21: ...'lowest point:'' -10,924 m (-35,840 ft). at the bottom of the [[Mariana Trench]]
26: ...mperate latitudes salinity is also low, because little evaporation of seawater takes place in these ar...
53: ...and trade; [[Abel Janszoon Tasman]] discovered ([[1642]]) [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]]. The [[18th c... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...en preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of [[science]],...
7: ...ad of waiting months or years for a hand-copied letter to arrive, today scientific communication can b...
11: ...munity; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The Academy had an exclusive m...
33: ==Patterns in the history of science==
35: ...f science is whether or not it displays certain patterns or trends, usually along the question of chan...
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