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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...borough|Duke of Marlborough]], and they made a glittering couple. Churchill, though he had supported ... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
9: To most scientists who give the matter any thought, and to many other observers, it se...
17: Fourteen centuries are omitted here.
31: ...ion; that is, that vision is by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this...
40: ... stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed.
60: ...re. In this modern view, the world consisted of matter moving in accordance with the laws of physics. ... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
26: *[[Charlotte Uhlenbroek|Uhlenbroek, Charlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and televisi...
53: ...Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter''
54: *[[Giuseppe Ungaretti|Ungaretti, Giuseppe]], Italian poet
56: ...lexander von Ungern-Sternberg|Ungern-Sternberg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field ma...
87: *[[Roy Urquhart|Urquhart, Robert Elliott "Roy"]] (1901-1988) - 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]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
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4: ...e]], and gained employment as his assistant. In [[1660]], he discovered [[Hooke's law]] of [[solid mecha...
14: ... the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]], this attribution appears incorrect, since [[Zacharias Jans...
24: ...houlders of giants"'', appeared originally in a letter to Hooke, and Newton presumably intended it as ...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookewe... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: ...ca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerning Toleration]]''. Religious toleration...
27: ...ts Locke substantively revised it to serve this latter purpose.
35: The ''First Treatise'' attacks [[Sir Robert Filmer]], who was the author of ...
41: ... concepts of [[liberty]], later influenced the written works of [[Thomas Jefferson]] and other [[Found... - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
4: ...d occupies around 150 sq km. It is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages s...
6: ...e burning of the original town. Thereafter the settlement continued to grow, becoming the capital of ...
8: ...eft|thumb|Traffic in Nairobi. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
10: Nairobi is served by [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]] and [[Wilson Airport]] t...
16: ...ent armed robberies, burglaries and carjackings"[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010428/402881.htm... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
18: ...st monetary basis was for agricultural capital: cattle and grain. In Ancient Mesopotamia, drafts were ...
24: ...'', a predecessor of the [[Bank of Sweden]], in [[1660]], although the bank ran out of coins to redeem i...
28: ...vy [[paper]], sometimes mixed with [[linen]], [[cotton]], or other textile fibres. In [[1988]], Austra...
48: * http://www.banknoteworld.com/ - 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]]. - 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 [[... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
8: ...he path of the [[International Date Line]], is [[Attu Island]], [[Alaska]].
13: ...from Mariana Trench article --->below sea level [http://www.rain.org/ocean/ocean-studies-challenger-de...
16: ...graphic_North_Pole|Geographic North pole]] (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the cen...
20: ... d|48|S|125|W|}}, which is approximately 2670 km (1660 mi) from the nearest land. It's in the middle of ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
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34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
44: *[[Rembrandt Bugatti]] (1884 - 1916)
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
98: *[[Giovan Battista Foggini]] - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...ract one another. The magnitude of the force of attraction or repulsion is given by [[Coulomb's law]]...
6: .... The Greeks noted that the amber buttons could attract light objects such as [[hair]], and that if t...
8: ...lleged to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
10: ...rt Boyle]], who in [[1675]] stated that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum; [[S...
11: ...ity clipart.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - 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]]) - 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...
36: ...title of ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan, or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastic... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
9: ...e area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers weari...
23: ...s conducted by the Knights. Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, May 8, 2005.]]
27: ...amed in memory of its valiant grand master La Valette who had sustained this siege.
29: ...e, however, had little political impact, for the Ottomans quickly rebuilt their fleet.
31: ... the victory at Lepanto the Knights continued to attack pirates, and their base became a centre for [[... - 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...
13: ... 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse ...
33: ==Patterns in the history of science==
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