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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...mage:queen_anne_england.JPG|right|thumb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland...
8: ...itain]]. She continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of S...
10: ... of England|William III]]. The failure of either Anne or of her sister to produce a child who could su...
12: ...g out later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Succ...
15: ...e of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
11: ...y and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] survived into adulthood.
13: ...atholicism in [[1668]] or [[1669]], but Mary and Anne had a [[Protestantism | Protestant]] upbringing...
20: ...une [[1688]], for the son would, unlike Mary and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic. Some charged that t...
31: ...n of the couple, to be followed by Mary's sister Anne and her children. Last in the line of succession...
33: ...rity and harmed her relationship with her sister Anne. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
3: ...ientists worked was radically changed. At the beginning of the century, science was highly [[Aristotle...
36: ...s interpretation these extraordinary changes, beginning with Copernicus and extending to the early 17t...
40: ...lendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia, the [[geocentric model]] had been accepted by ...
42: ... true theory. It took the efforts of two men, Johannes Kepler and Galileo, to give it credibility. Kep... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...lose to the [[Sun]]. When a comet approaches the inner solar system, radiation from the Sun causes its...
11: ...r appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is t...
33: ... year, so that Comet Bennett 1969i became Comet Bennett 1970 II (it was the second comet to pass perih...
53: ...d for most of the next century. Even after [[Johannes Kepler]] had determined in [[1609]] that the pl...
55: ...e others, such as [[Christian Huygens]] and [[Johannes Hevelius]], supported comets' linear motion.{{h... - History of science (41710 bytes)
29: ...lected astronomical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no...
52: ... upon. In addition, there was the [[Hajj]]. This annual [[pilgrimage]] to [[Mecca]] facilitated schola...
54: ... [[algebra]] is derived from ''al-jabr'', the beginning of the title of one of his publications. [[Tur...
63: ...ilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]] in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]].
65: ...[Galileo Galilei]], [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Johannes Kepler]], and [[Blaise Pascal]]. In philosophy,... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
22: ... published his ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]], including a proof of an inverse square law, he... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...Principia Mathematica]]'' (published [[5 July]] [[1687]]<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>), where he...
19: ...became engaged to the apothecary's stepdaughter, Anne Storey, before he went off to [[Cambridge Univer...
23: ...o]], [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus]] and [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]]. In [[1665]] he discovered the ...
52: ...of the magicians." Newton's interest in alchemy cannot be isolated from his contributions to science<s...
57: ...otu Corporum'' ([[1684]]). This contained the beginnings of the laws of motion that would inform the '... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
13: ...long by 19.2 metres wide, with internal Doric colonnades in two tiers, structurally necessary to suppo...
21: ...reat procession of the [[Panathenaia]], the main annual festival honouring Athena. On the fourth, east...
33: In 1687 the Parthenon suffered its greatest blow when the...
47: ...in Nashville's [[Centennial Park (Nashville)|Centennial Park]] is a full-scale replica of the original...
50: ...image (Burkert 1985 pp 84 – 92). See Holtzmann 2003 for a complete review of the debate. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
11: ...] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [[1683]]).
13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph...
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689]]. He then...
23: ... house of his own from which he published ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'' to which he contributed many es...
25: ...s from this almanac such as "A penny saved is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by peo... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
56: * 1894 - [[Moms Mabley]], comedienne (d. [[1975]])
60: *[[1906]] - [[Adolf Eichmann]], Nazi official (d. [[1962]])
62: ...]] - [[Jay Berwanger]], American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy (d. [[2002]])
81: *[[1947]] - [[Glenn Close]], actress - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Ba...
34: ...- [[Pat Summitt]], coach of the [[University of Tennessee]] Lady Vols (women's [[college basketball]])...
55: *1924 - [[Bill Wendell]], American broadcast announcer (d. [[1999]])
80: *[[1949]] - [[Fanny Ardant]], French actress
96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] ... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
8: Unlike most scientists, astronomers cannot directly interact with the [[celestial body|cel...
32: |[[Johannes Kepler]]
36: ...Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]",...
58: There is also a well-known painting by [[Johannes Vermeer]] titled ''The Astronomer'', which is o... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]...
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[...
66: *[[Johann Bayer]] ([[Germany]], [[1572]] – [[1625]])
73: *[[Ludwig Biermann]] ([[Germany]], [[1907]] – [[1986]])
78: *[[Johann Elert Bode]] ([[Germany]], [[1747]] – [[182... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
55: ...the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]]...
57: ... Eventually, after a defeat at the [[Battle of Vienna]], in [[1683]], it was clear the Ottoman Empire ...
65: ... The Ottoman Empire had some successes in the beginning years of the war. The [[Allies]], including th...
66: ...nd to disband it. This army was instrumental in winning the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]&...
83: “The beginnings of legal reform in the Middle East were initi... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...iggurat is a temple of [[Nanna (Sumerian deity)|Nanna]], a [[deity]] in [[Sumerian mythology]], and ha...
9: ...ing. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[Nanna]], the [[moon]] [[god]] in [[Sumerian mythology]...
11: ... by the king [[Mesannepada]] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda).
17: ...his event. Later [[Babylon]] captured the city. Nanna was known to the Babylonians as ''Sin''. The Bab...
26: ...ubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of Kesed,... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }} - Physics (25628 bytes)
15: ...talists make a discovery that existing theories cannot account for, necessitating the formulation of n...
34: | [[Boltzmann's constant]], [[Entropy]], [[Free energy]], [[Hea...
91: ...ilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]] in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]] (dates disputed).
94: ...[Galileo Galilei]], [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Johannes Kepler]], and [[Blaise Pascal]].
96: ...ics]], in particular the Law of [[Inertia]]. In [[1687]], [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] published the ''[[Phil...
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