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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Southeast Asia]] and [[China]], a distanc...
4: ... Abdullah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim Ibn Battuta al-Lawati al-Tanji'''.
6: .... Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of...
8: ... assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...st-travelled: a journey up the Nile, then east by land to the Red Sea port of [[Aydhad|'Aydhad]]. Howe... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
1: [[image:Ptolemy.jpg|thumb|240px|Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German stylin...
3: '''Claudius Ptolemaeus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Κλαύδ_...
5: ...iliar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cremona]]) in the 12th centur...
7: ...ons]] is ancestral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not c...
9: ...in work is his ''Geography''. This too is a compilation, of what was known about the world's [[geogra... - Aristarchus (4292 bytes)
1: ...and developed by [[Copernicus]] nearly 2000 years later.
3: ... (crater)|Aristarchus]], a bright [[Impact crater|crater]] on the [[Moon]], and [[asteroid]] [[3999 Arista...
11: ... simpler, better explanation for the lack of parallax. The rejection of the heliocentric view was appa...
17: ...the Moon's diameter. Using [[Eratosthenes]]' calculation that the Earth was 42,000 km in [[circumferen...
21: ...It does, however, suggest that the Sun is clearly larger than the Earth, which can be taken to support... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ...oyal Greenwich Observatory]], [[Greenwich]], [[England]]; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 d...
7: ... desirable to adopt a single world meridian to replace the numerous ones already in existence.
9: # That all longitudes would be calculated both east and west from this meridian up to 18...
11: ... The universal day would be a [[solar time|mean solar day]], beginning at the mean midnight at Greenwi...
13: # All technical studies to regulate and extend the application of the decimal syste... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
1: ...tration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ... boundaries of the [[plate tectonics|continental plates]]. However, important exceptions exist in '''[...
3: ...x|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
10: ...because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the island of [[Martinique]] is another example.
12: ...try terms "acidic" and "basic", respectively. The latter were thought to be a little misleading, howev... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
4: Flag = Oregon state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Oregon]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = OR |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' | - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
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18: ...'[[Jurassic Park]]'', and new discoveries are regularly covered by the [[media]]. The term is also use...
20: ...emendously useful in [[scientific classification|classifying]] dinosaurs, which are still known from a... - Cretaceous (7391 bytes)
6: ...rtiary extinction event]]. The Cretaceous (from [[Latin]] ''creta'', for chalk) was named for the exte...
12: | '''Upper/Late Cretaceous'''
48: | [[Valanginian]]
56: [[Image:Kreda.jpg|right|320px|thumb|Late Cretaceous world, 94 Ma]]
57: ... substantially different at the time. As the [[Atlantic Ocean]] widened and [[South America]] drifted... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...here]]. It studies the [[Cosmology|origins]], [[Galaxy formation and evolution|evolution]], and [[Astr...
3: ...|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed by the crew of [[Apollo...
5: ...e's destiny and human affairs in general are correlated to the apparent positions of astronomical obje...
8: ... Much of the effort in these two areas, once done largely by hand, is highly automated nowadays, to th...
12: ... of space under study (e.g., Galactic astronomy, Planetary Sciences); by subject, such as star formati... - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a...
3: ...scribed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] an...
5: ...but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the tails can extend over 1...
11: ...]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Museum, scene 1}} - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...4]]–[[1975|75]]); only 40–45% of the planet has been mapped.
3: ...[[caduceus]]. Before the [[5th century BC]], the planet Mercury actually had two names, as it was not ...
5: The Chinese and Japanese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
8: .../www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
10: ...ries by only about 11 K (with respect only to [[solar radiation]]; not [[climate]] or [[season]]). The... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ... here is in accordance with the dates and [[nomenclature]] proposed by the [[International Commission ...
3: ...ary between the [[Cretaceous]] period and the [[Palaeogene]] period is defined by the [[Cretaceous-Ter...
7: ... have been adopted in building the geologic nomenclature, though in general there are far more recogni...
9: [[Geologist]]s tend to talk in terms of Upper/Late, Lower/Early and Middle parts of periods and ot...
13: ...ted, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in different areas could ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...t of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...uring this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...covered what may be the oldest known non-linear relation in physics, between the tension and the pitch...
12: ...hnology of the [[1600s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments ...
14: ...e particular results that led to the time-squared law (Drake, 1973). - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
4: ... [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two ...
8: ...h Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philos...
10: ...e has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealis...
12: ... develop into the [[scientific method]] centuries later. Although he wrote dialogues early in his car... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circle|circular]], with an [[eccentricity (orbit)|eccentricity]]...
7: ...ally incorrect. The true adjective coming from [[Latin]], ''[[Wiktionary:Venereal|Venereal]]'', is av...
9: ...Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
14: ... km/h). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat...
16: ...ite is actually true. The cloud cover keeps the planet much cooler than it would be otherwise. The i... - Mars (27704 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mars.jpg|thumb|right|Mars, with polar ice caps visible.]]
2: ...rs NPArea-PIA00161 modest.jpg|thumb|right|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)...
4: ...This feature also earned it the name of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([[...
8: ... dry land because Mars lacks [[ocean]]s). The [[solar day]] on Mars is almost the same length as it is...
13: ... become uniformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companion... - Great Rift Valley (4717 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...rican]] and [[Arabian Plate|Arabian]] [[tectonic plate]]s that began around 35 million years ago in th...
5: ...ch flows southward through the [[Hahula Lake|Hula Lake]] and the [[Sea of Galilee]] in [[Israel]] to t...
7: ...ift Valley, which split the older [[Ethiopian highlands]] into two halves.
11: ...branches. The other [[Great Lakes (Africa)|Great Lakes]] are also formed by the rift. - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...His twin brother was [[stillborn]] (Tycho wrote a Latin ode (Wittendorf 1994, p. 68) to his dead twin ...
10: ...stle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...e]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so i...
14: ''I've studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others. ...
16: ...ycho's naked eye measurements of planetary [[parallax]] were accurate to the [[arcminute]]. (These mea... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom...
7: He was born named Filippo in [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a ...
9: ...bout [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[Neoplatonism]]. Bruno embraced a sort of [[pantheism|pa...
10: ...nemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ... [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]]. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential t...
4: ...in Japanese ''tsunami'' is used for both the singular and plural, in English ''tsunamis'' is well-esta...
6: ...familiar). However, since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and...
10: ...reate a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...ere denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction.
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