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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[161...
10: ...hysics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejec...
12: ...eriments reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, ...
14: ...plicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was c... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
12: ...nt Everest|Everest]]: 8,850 [[metre|m]] (29,035 feet) above sea level.
13: ... [[Mariana Trench]]: 10,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article -...
14: ... on land is the shore of the [[Dead Sea]]: 417 [[metre|m]] below sea level. ''See [[List of places on ...
19: ...sition is at a straight-line distance of 2648 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline.
20: ...rger in surface than the entire former [[USSR|Soviet Union]]. - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ...h Bradley Cox Oort. They had two daughters: Elizabeth and Sarah Kidd. The marriage brought to Kidd a c...
8: ...ght a few days later, Kidd threw an ironbound bucket at Moore which killed him.
10: ...nglish ship. Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners but they refused.
14: ...nd leaky. With the loyal remnant of his crew, he returned home in the captured ''Quedah Merchant''.
16: When Kidd returned to New York City, he was arrested with his c... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nati...
12: ...cted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended...
14: ... was exposed to European scientific and critical methods during the tour in contrast to the [[scholast...
16: ...r debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he consid...
20: ...ng treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, and argued how this must be regulated if Men we... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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