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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
471: *[[John William Godward]] ([[1861]]-[[1922]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke received his...
12: ... adjustment of the period of ticks. Modern spring watches still use balance springs, and derivative de...
22: ...tween the men grew worse as time progressed. In [[1679]], Hooke wrote to Newton advocating an [[inverse ... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...red calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...d when [[white]] [[light]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the...
14: ...d three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two years of age, his mother went to live with h...
19: ...Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other re...
23: Newton was educated at [[Grantham Grammar School]]. In [[16... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...gust 29]] [[1632]]–[[October 28]] [[1704]]) was a [[17th century|17th-century]] [[philosopher]] ...
6: ...e university and also a [[Puritan]]. Although he was a capable student, Locke chafed under the underg...
8: ...d seeking treatment for a liver infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become p...
12: ... coordinated the advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to...
14: ... in the Epistle to the reader of the Essay, which was the genesis of what would later become Essay. Tw... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ... Holland]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world...
4: ...ith [[Edward Sprague]] in the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] and fought at the [[Battle of Schooneveld]] in...
7: ...y]]. This led to his first circumnavigation: in [[1679]] he accompanied a raid across the [[Darié® Provi...
9: ...], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. Leaving Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cr...
11: ...of Australia, near [[King Sound]]. While the ship was being [[careening|careened]] Dampier made notes ... - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
13: area water = 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) |
25: ...unication and transportation links with the [[Delaware Valley]] than it does with [[New York metropoli...
29: This city is an anchor city for the [[Delaware Valley]] [[metropolitan area]]. Trenton and it...
32: ...9, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaware, led by [[Mahlon Stacy]] from [[Handsworth, Sou...
34: ...ounding land from Stacy's family. This name later was shortened to "Trenton". - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...l 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political...
6: ...f human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was a contemporary of [[René „escartes|Descartes]] a...
10: ... [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (sch...
12: ...did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to William, th...
14: ...nt could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
195: *[[Harry Binswanger]], (born 1944)
238: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]], (c. 1290-1349){{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: A steam engine needs a boiler to boil [[water]] to produce steam under pressure. Any [[heat]...
7: ...t steam device, the [[aeolipile| ''aeolipile'']], was invented by [[Hero of Alexandria|Heron of Alexan...
9: ...8]]), [[Thomas Newcomen]] ([[1712]]), and [[James Watt]] ([[1769]]), each adding new refinements. In 1...
15: ...d are transferred to a pump piston that moves the water, through check valves, to the top of the shaft...
17: ...he efficiency of the engine. The next improvement was the replacement of manually operated valves with...
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