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- List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
14: ...s]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed po...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
22: ... U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hooke 2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...led because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained ...
6: ... of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and th...
12: ...watches still use balance springs, and derivative designs of Hooke's [[anchor escapement]] remain in c...
14: .... While he did give much advice on new microscope designs to the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]]... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Arist...
7: ...610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...ion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ...00s]]. According to Koyré¬ the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustr...
14: ... rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precisi... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...fried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they...
4: ...a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in t...
6: ...ped a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the rate of cooling of objects when expos...
12: ...ief biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life a...
14: ... said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months bef... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
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10: | [[Clyde Tombaugh|Clyde W. Tombaugh]]
48: | 17.141 75°<br>(11.88? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 110.303 47° - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: ...562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Edict of St. Germain]].
7: ...Charles Edward Stuart]], "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[...
9: ...General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the ...
11: ...1852]] - [[United Kingdom]] recognizes the independence of the [[Boer]] colonies of the [[Transvaal]].
13: ...[United Kingdom|British]] force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the ... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
7: ...en designs, such as the 'ordinary' or standard garden sundial, cast a shadow on a flat surface marked ...
9: However, sundials can be designed for any surface where a fixed object casts ...
11: Most sundial designs indicate [[solar time|apparent solar time]].
12: Minor design variations can measure standard and daylight ...
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by other cultures, including the [... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...ty]], [[structure]], [[space]] and [[change]]. It developed, through the use of [[abstraction]] and [[...
3: ...nowledge. This latter meaning of mathematics includes the mathematics used to do [[calculation]]s and ...
10: However, mathematics undoubtedly could not have developed out of simple counting and arithmetic with...
15: ...]] and later [[astronomy]]. Nowadays, mathematics derives much inspiration from the natural sciences a...
17: ...as happened that pure mathematics, which was considered only of interest to mathematics, has become ap... - Pressure (9004 bytes)
12: Often ''F'' is taken to be the magnitude of the mean vector force normal to the surface of...
14: The [[gradient]] of pressure is [[force density]].
23: ...t. Pressure acts in all directions at a point inside a gas. At the surface of a gas, the pressure forc...
30: *''[[rho|ρ]]'' (rho) is the [[density]] of the fluid
38: ...or [[Cobra probe]], connected to a [[manometer]]. Depending on where the inlet holes are located on th... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ntal starting point of modern [[astronomy]] and modern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientifi...
7: ...cus_00125w.jpg||thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
8: ...raised him and his three other siblings after the death of Copernicus' father. His brother Andrew beca...
10: ... him, as his books (stolen by Swedes during [[The Deluge]], and now in [[Uppsala]]'s library) show. Af...
12: ... together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ation in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In thi...
8: ...rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]]...
10: ... and the [[Renaissance]] and [[Reformation]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furth...
14: ...the universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] ...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966) - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ... and [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. He was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Priz...
5: ...or a scientist. In his later years, his fame exceeded that of any other scientist in [[history of scie...
7: ... day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
14: ...y was [[Jew]]ish (and non-observant); Albert attended a [[Catholic school|Catholic elementary school]]...
16: ...ct. Another, more recent, theory about his mental development is that he had [[Asperger's syndrome]], ... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...etribution.) Some math historians consider Archimedes to be one of history's greatest mathematicians, ...
4: ...ented the [[irrigation]] device known as [[Archimedes' screw]].
6: ...inst the invading Romans was the [[claw of Archimedes]].
8: ...wooden ship with a variety of mirrors, they concluded that the enemy ships would have had to be virtua...
10: Archimedes was killed in Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: [[Astronomy]] is probably the oldest of the [[natural science]]s, dating back to [[a...
8: ...ers were [[priest]]s ([[Magi]]), and that their understanding of the "[[heaven]]s" was seen as "[[divi...
10: ...alendar is based on the Roman calendar, which divided the year into twelve months of alternating thirt...
14: ...ennium BC, but their contents appear to be much older.
20: ... that took the earth to spin on its axis and considered the motions of the planets with respect to the... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Knox Polk
5: | order=11th President
8: | preceded=[[John Tyler]]
9: | succeeded=[[Zachary Taylor]]
12: | dead=dead - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [...
4: ...ains a significant problem (with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion [[United_States_doll...
8: ...neer]]s'''. The word comes from ''boucan'', a wooden frame used for cooking meat (called a ''[[barbec...
10: ... known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'' me...
14: ...urkish '''''Korsan''''', which seems to have been derived from the European word, which in turn comes ... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing th...
10: ..."Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
16: ...Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon...
17: ...er of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days late...
24: *[[1956]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]]. - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
2: ...S. state]] of [[California]]. It was founded in [[December]] [[1848]] by [[John Sutter, Jr.]] Sacramen...
13: leader_title = [[Mayor]] |
14: leader_name = [[Heather Fargo]] |
15: area_magnitude = 1 E8 |
22: population_density = 1,617 | - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ... is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
24: founded = [[May 4]], [[1868]] |
33: density = 1,074|
46: ...aced them; or, they may be the ancestors of the modern Pima Indians who now live on the [[Salt River]]...
49: ...es northwest of a similar farming community at Hayden's Ferry, which would become [[Tempe, Arizona|Tem...
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