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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
3: ...[[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in southeastern [[M...
5: ...owned, and yet strangely ill-fated colonial ventures in America. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]...
7: ...adford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. On [[March 22]], 16... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...s|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ...]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ...seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...uickly mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrati... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...e]]. A clock is usually a physical instrument, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]...
5: ==Purposes ==
9: ...atch]]es) are carried; big ones are in public places, e.g. a [[train station]] or [[church]]. A small ...
14: ...e and date for all manner of operations whether these be for alarms, event initiation or just to displ...
16: ===Ideal uses=== - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
8: ===Ancestry===
9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
17: ... [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[...
21: ...n [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Couran... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...age:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([...
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]],...
6: ...escartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
12: At university Hobbes appears to have followed his own curriculum; he w... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...rn World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and a...
2: ...rait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Cl...
4: ...ne had written on these matters before". Nevertheless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents...
6: ... the [[Turing test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
11: ...he age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand]] a... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ary Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...d into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...k]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...s in the development of [[science]], and asking questions about how science "works" both in a philosop...
7: ...elative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of communication. Still, there was a considerabl...
9: ...ary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ... the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The A...
13: ...functions, including a community open to and interested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar w... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...mon descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|analysis]...
5: ...iest known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who cla...
7: ... translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...fessor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life know...
11: ...ist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628&n... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...hanks the Archbishop for "worldly maintenance," "best earthly countenance", and "fatherly incouragemen...
5: ...ot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...lded by God, or Directions for Governors of Families'' (1653).
9: ...323; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 218, which confuses him most oddly of all with one of the ejected min...
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