Search results
|
|
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #21.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Human (48024 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
13: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
15: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Subspecies}}
27: ...]] and [[observation]] have led to a variety of explanations for [[consciousness]] and the the relatio...
30: ...e inherently [[society|social]]. Humans create complex [[sociology|social structures]] composed of man... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...n Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of th...
7: ...astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
14: ...on falling bodies (actually rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Set...
18: ...lescope is inaccurate, he was one of the first people to use the telescope to observe the [[sky]]. Bas...
20: ... of the [[natural satellite|moons]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full descript... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... the [[Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[a...
4: ...[parabola|parabolic]]. He is also notable for his arguments that light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[...
6: ...binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular m...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and ...
23: ...y closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague]]. For the next two years Newton worked at ho... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "...
4: ...er, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo ...
6: ...s Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonic...
8: ==Kepler's life==
9: ...at town, but by the time Johannes was born, the Kepler family fortunes were in decline. His father ea... - Civil rights (27169 bytes)
2: ...e and sometimes protected by [[government]]s. Examples of rights and liberties include the right to ge...
4: ...privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this se...
10: ... society and means that civil rights attach to people by virute of their [[citizenship]] of a [[state]...
12: ...r of rights and freedoms, which are [[value]]d deeply and are closely associated to the modern concept...
14: ...much broader. [[Jurist]] [[Karel Vasak]], for example, discusses a right to peace and the right to a c... - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
9: |As Western territories begin applying for statehood, the [[Missouri Compromise]] ma...
15: |[[Daniel Webster]] delivers a memorable ''Reply to Hayne'' on January 27, denouncing the notion ...
30: ...e of the Supreme Court]]. Taney asserts the principle of social responsibility of private property as ...
48: ...ew]]'', the leading Southern magazine warning the planter class about the dangers of depending on the ...
61: | + [[George Fitzhugh]]'s ''The Pro-Slavery Argument'' is published.<br> - Plato (17363 bytes)
1: ...ue 1.jpg|thumb|Statue of a philosopher, presumely Plato, in [[Delphi]].]]
2: '''Plato''' [[May 21]] [[427 BC]] – c. [[347 BC...
4: ...to us under his name. All the known dialogues of Plato survive; some of the dialogues which the Greek...
6: ...ue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it Plato's.
8: ...n is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and R... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ...ightenment|Enlightenment]] period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]]...
6: ...us [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to ...
10: ...losophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human...
14: ...household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the reader of the... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
44: ! align="left" | [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
138: ...called Jove). The [[astronomical symbol]] for the planet is a stylized representation of the god's lig...
140: ...|Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Wood Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
145: ...inition of what distinguishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], altho...
147: ...at Red Spot]], a [[storm]] larger than Earth. The planet is perpetually covered with a layer of [[clou... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
4: ...00" | [[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click...
44: ! align="left" | [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
137: ...t planet in the [[solar system]] after [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Saturn has large rings made main...
140: ...Saturn is also the only one of the Solar System's planets less dense than water, with an average speci...
142: ...plets of helium deep in Saturn's interior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they f... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ..." bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
53: !align="left"| [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
145: ...] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Greek g...
149: ...res of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] and [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] minus the massive liquid [[metallic...
155: ...xactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definitions of which ... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
52: !align="left" | [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
136: ...entric orbit]], Neptune is sometimes the furthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the ...
138: ... spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on [[August 25]], [[1989]].
142: ...ated by [[accretion|infalling matter]] during the planet's birth, now slowly radiating away into space...
144: ...nus (planet)|Uranus]]. There is likely to be a [[planetary core|core]] consisting of (molten) rock an... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
53: !align="left"| [[Argument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
120: ...regarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a comb... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
7: ...y that of [[number]]s. The realization that two apples and two oranges do have something in common, na...
8: ...tic]] (e.g. [[addition]], [[subtraction]], [[multiplication]] and [[division (mathematics)|division]])...
10: ...em|writing numbers]]. Perhaps [[prehistoric]] peoples first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines i...
12: Historically, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to d...
14: ==Inspiration, aesthetics and pure and applied mathematics== - Economics (30960 bytes)
1: ...social sciences)|positive]] when it attempts to explain the consequences of different choices given a ...
3: ...omics may in principle be (and increasingly is) applied to any problem that involves choice under scar...
5: Some economists use [[price]] and [[supply and demand]] to create [[Model (economics)|econo...
15: ...national income and output|national income]], [[employment]] and [[inflation]]. Note that [[general eq...
19: ...nto the macro-micro categorization. These subdisciplines include: [[international economics]], [[labou... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. I...
2: ...anization" – that is, an organization of people that supports the exercise of some religion, oft...
19: ...rience with the Divine. This narrower definition places "religion" in contradistinction with [[ration...
21: ...us, who see metaphysical claims as necessary to explain natural phenomena at a fundamental level.
23: ...or, institutionalized religions. This definition places "religion" in contradistinction to "spiritual... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...he most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat.
15: In [[1506]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cosimo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''T...
17: ...r princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, like with [[Ludo...
23: ... V, it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City.
26: ...erefore irritated Charles V, was the sense of his argument. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ple as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
25: ...mpted in the meanwhile to go ahead with Calonne's plans. When the measures were opposed in the ''Parl...
37: ...w demanded that credentialling itself should take place as a group. Negotiations with the other estat...
42: ...]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pass ...
53: ...]], banished the reformist minister Necker and completely reconstructed the ministry. Much of Paris, p... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - Ape (10931 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
8: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Haplorrhini]]}}
11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = [[Family (biology)|Families]]}}
29: ...ated to humans than the other great apes (for example, [[australopithecine]]s). It is now usual to use...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).