Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
Article title matches
- Science (19868 bytes)
6: ...jective, empirically testable, and "predictive" — they predict empirical results that can be che...
16: ...d empiricism makes a crucial error of reasoning — the '''epistemic fallacy'''. This is the mista...
30: ...t is nevertheless conceivable that they will some day be supplanted. Younger theories such as [[string...
32: ...evidence is presented. Even the most basic and fundamental theories may turn out to be imperfect if ne...
52: ...es or replaces it in light of new observations or data. - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...nowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-sci...
11: ...dge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
40: ... long period that followed is also known as the [[Dark Ages]]. While the [[Byzantine Empire]] still he...
43: ...[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the bl...
46: ...vitalization of Europe. This provided a solid foundation for all future scientific work. Contact with ... - Earth science (5396 bytes)
26: ... observation satellite|satellite]] and ship-board data, is increasingly giving scientists the ability ...
42: **Earthquake Damage
53: **Plate Boundaries
60: **Volcano Damage - Science fair (3945 bytes)
11: ...e use of the first two [[atomic weapon]]s and the dawn of [[television]]. As the decade progressed, s...
24: ====Canada====
25: ... [http://www.ysf.ca/ Youth Science Foundation Canada]
26: * [[Canada-Wide Science Fair]] - Ancient Indian science and technology (21581 bytes)
3: ...f the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in...
10: *Astronomy � [[Rig Veda]] ([[2000 BC]]) refers to astronomy.
14: *Fine Arts � [[Veda]]s were recited and recitation has to be correct,...
16:
26: ...ive Principles''� (''Panch-Siddhantika'') which dates to [[5th Century]] AD. - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...hs or years for a hand-copied letter to arrive, today scientific communication can be practically inst...
9: Nowadays, almost all modern scientists participate in a ...
11: ...ment of the [[Scientific Revolution]] was the foundation of scientific societies: [[Academia Secretoru...
13: ... Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse collection of scient...
15: ...II]], which produced such "wonder weapons" as [[radar]], [[rocketry]], and the [[atomic bomb]]. During... - Pre-experimental science (6447 bytes)
1: ...]], but this included fields of [[study]] which today have been divorced from science. The ancient peo...
17: ... of the sort that Aristotle thought impossible. Today, one of the results of [[quantum mechanics]] is ... - History of science in early cultures (11033 bytes)
9: ...r of Pythagorean triplets (3,4,5) (5,12,13). ..., dated 1900 BC, possibly millennia before Pythagoras{...
11: ...n in what is now Turkey, would use the collected data and improve [[Hipparchus]]' value for the [[pre...
16: ... of [[India]]. Their design can be conservatively dated to the [[1st millennium BC]]. Around 1800 BC, ...
38: ...g this period, while [[Hippocrates]] laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science.
45: ...ny of the [[Constellation|constellations]] used today through the [[Almagest]]. The [[Ptolemaic system... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
6: ...otype]] of Middle Ages as supposedly "[[Dark Ages|Dark Ages]]".
16: ...y pointing out that the labelling of this era as "dark" was mostly based on previous ignorance about t...
20: ... of dialectic (a discipline that corresponds to today's [[logic]]) was responsible for the rebirth of ...
41: ...ccam]] led him to postulate the principle known today as [[Occam's Razor]]. According to Occam, philos...
43: ...ep towards the modern concept of [[inertia]]. Buridan anticipated [[Isaac Newton]] when he wrote: - History of political science (4644 bytes)
- History of agricultural science (1269 bytes)
3: Agronomy today is very different from what it was before about ...
5: However, environmental damage due to [[intensive agriculture]], industrial ...
7: ...s [[biotechnology]] and [[computer science]] (for data processing and storage), and technological adva... - American Association for the Advancement of Science (8017 bytes)
22: ...rperson]] of the [[Board of Directors]]. In accordance with the convention followed by the AAAS, '''p...
53: ... administrative officials that execute the basic, daily functions of the AAAS. These are the [[Execut...
74: *[[National Science Foundation]]
Page text matches
- Mexico (27255 bytes)
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]...
64: ...g, feather-mosiac work, the invention of the calendar, were due to the former inhabitants of Tula, the...
68: ... Catholic priest in the small town of [[Dolores Hidalgo|Dolores]], causing a long [[Mexican War of Ind...
74: ...formed the modern states of [[California]], [[Nevada]], and [[Utah]], and most of [[Arizona]], [[New M...
78: ...d prosperity is known as the "Porfiriato". His mandate, however, was mostly undemocratic and benefited... - Main Page (2698 bytes)
60: <h3>Today in Picture</h3> - Plateau (3062 bytes)
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...nderstanding]], [[knowledge]] or [[wisdom]] on fundamental matters as diverse as [[reality]], [[knowle...
16: ...ontinuous project - the one still being pursued today - is [[Socrates]], who studied under several Sop...
29: ...aused first cause, and this is God. Aquinas also adapted this argument to prove the goodness of God. E...
42: ...te it, the way the entire larger modern period is dated, from the [[Renaissance]]. In some usages, "Mo...
48: ...nd in philosophers such as [[Adam Smith]], but fundamentally challenged established conceptions. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact, bu...
10: ... institutional changes wrought by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Ci...
22: ...able as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of ...
30: ...udy tour, gathering information where he could. Today this is called [[industrial espionage]], with mo...
59: ...ed about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in h... - China (38909 bytes)
34: ...low [[political divisions of China|provincial boundaries]]. In many contexts, "China" is commonly used...
38: ...hina]]" (中國大陸,''zhōngguó dàlù'' in Mandarin), especially when contrasting it with other, p...
45: ...hang]], who settled along the [[Huang He]] river, dating from the 18th to the 12th centuries BC. The S...
55: ...ist state]]—the People's Republic of China—that laid claim to be the successor state of th...
73: [[Nanjing]], [[Beijing]], [[Chang'an]] (today [[Xi'an]]), and [[Luoyang]] are the four cities ... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
11: ...ad lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and be overthrown by a [[rebellion]...
28: ...genous religion. Its primary written work, the [[Dao De Jing]] is attributed to [[Lao Zi]], who may o...
60: ==Judaism==
62: ''Main article: [[Judaism in China]]''
64: ...dney Shapiro]], were Jewish. Also, the study of Judaism and Jews in China as an academic subject began... - List of historical anniversaries (7470 bytes)
41: {{Calendar}}
45: ...dars]], e.g. [[Gregorian calendar]], [[Irish calendar]]
49: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/today Today in History]
50: *[http://www.todayinsci.com/ Today in science history]
51: ...nel]]: [http://www.historychannel.com/today/ This Day in History] - Clip art (7441 bytes)
4: ...ategory/valentines-day-clipart.htm '''Valentine's Day Clipart''']
43: ...lipart.com/image/category/holiday-clipart.htm Holiday Clipart] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
38: *[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
43: ...Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of ...
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defen...
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon - Main Page2 (2348 bytes)
41: <h3>Todays Picture</h3>[[Image:Bee_pollen.jpg|175px|thumb|...
42: ===March 2007 Calendar===
43: {{MarchCalendar2007a}} - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: '''Mary I''' ([[18 February]] [[1516]] – [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of Britis...
13: ... Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
17: ...hen suggested that the Princess Mary wed, not the Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was eager for...
21: ...rthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she was illegitimat...
33: ...ss of Suffolk]], and the Duke of Northumberland's daughter-in-law. - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: '''Maria Theresa''' ([[May 13]], [[1717]] – [[November 29]], [[1780]]) was a [[Habsburg]] ...
6: ...of 1713|Pragmatic Sanction]] which guaranteed his daughter the right to succeed to the Austrian throne...
8: ...g Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him, with 6 daughters (all of whom were named "Marie _______") a... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
29: ...angerous ideas they held were now made truly formidable by their open publication. In 1759 the ''Encyc... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ... of [[Sweden]] from [[1632]] to [[1654]], was the daughter of King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]. As...
14: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Birth'''<td>[[December 18]], [[1626]]
16: <tr valign=top><td>'''Date of Death'''<td>[[April 19]], [[1689]]
31: ...tes (clergy, burgesses and peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction o...
39: The importunity of the senate and Riksdag on the question of her marriage was a constant s... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
18: | '''Date of Birth:'''
78: ...bright|Joseph Albright]], with whom she had three daughters. They divorced in [[1982]].
82: ... brooch resembling a snake when she met with [[Saddam Hussein]].
86: ... her retirement, Albright published a memoir, ''Madam Secretary'' ([[2003]]) ISBN 0786868430.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).