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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and English colonisat...
16: ...that time and was also declared illegitimate and lost the title of princess. Thereafter she was addres...
18: ...n referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her con...
25: ...ed the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] less than two weeks later. Armed with popular...
27: ... Lady Elizabeth to succeed rather than her next-closest relative, [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Stuart]], ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...er]], [[philosopher]], and [[physicist]] who is closely associated with the [[scientific revolution]]....
7: ...for financial reasons. However, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathem...
10: ...ience and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primary justific...
12: ...ate measurements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. Accord...
24: ...emisphere to face the Earth when it was on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Eart... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
11: ... compared to the other pupils, an outsider. This ostracizing probably led him to turn to the world of...
15: ...estant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23.
21: ...y [[1612]] the Emperor died, and Kepler took the post of provincial mathematician in [[Linz]].
32: ...] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]]
35: ...he smallest orbit, that of Mercury, was the innermost sphere. He thereby identified the five [[Platon... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...l 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|English]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and...
4: ... a lawyer, but he has become best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific ...
8: ...]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the...
14: ...] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong...
21: ...oris Partus Maximus'', but he failed to obtain a position of the kind he thought necessary for success... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... these different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[Ki...
9: ...ing]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...es"]] would benefit immensely. It was in this atmosphere that [[Christopher Columbus]] left Spain on ...
13: .... Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little i...
16: ...roto-[[nationalism]] and national assertiveness blossomed under the threat of Spanish invasion, assist... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...rchant" or "marketeer". Educated in [['s-Hertogenbosch]] and at the [[University of Leuven]]. Although...
12: ...He produced more maps and he was appointed Court Cosmographer to [[Duke Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]...
14: ...87]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...e]] in [[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]....
22: ...by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. ISBN 1-891... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- ) - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
12: ...ivateer]]. On his second such voyage he fought a costly battle against Spanish forces, which claimed m...
13: ...he Silver Train to the nearby port of Nombre de Dios. He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to l...
16: ..., with four other ships and over 150 men. After crossing the Atlantic two of the ships had to be aband...
24: ..., [[1579]], Drake landed somewhere above Spain's most northerly claim at Point Loma. Drake found an e...
32: When Drake set sail, they headed westward across the Pacific, and a few months later reached the ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
6: [[Guru Nanak]] was opposed to the caste system. His followers referred to ...
10: Guru Nanak's doctrinal position is clear, despite the appearance that it is ...
12: ...ch tended to erect "a wall of falsehood" around those who live totally in the mundane world of materia...
24: ...to have Langar. Guru Amar Das also trained 140 apostles of which 52 were women to manage the rapid ex...
30: ...ru Tegh Bahadur|Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji]]. Sikh mythos says that Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed himself to... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
14: ...ork of [[William Prescot]], it became adopted by most of the world, including the Mexican scholars of ...
17: ...ertain origin. Very different etymologies are proposed: the old [[Nahuatl]] word for the [[sun]], the ...
22: ...ires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more a system of tribut...
29: ...act that amazed the Spaniards since that was not possible in Europe at that time.
31: ...onger subject to maintenance and were eventually lost. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
29: ...m km² (1902); 19.9m km² maximum extent (1595)
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
7: ...rs, but then the [[Hittites]] sacked Babylon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cit...
13: ...buchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar II]], whose reign of 43 years made Babylon once more the mis... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
5: ...ld only be applied to the [[Sumerian language]], positing that there was no separate 'Sumerian' ethnic...
12: ... over each other, falling into a millennium of almost incessant warfare over water rights, trade route...
14: ... evidence, is that of [[Enmebaragesi]] of Kish, whose name is also mentioned in the [[Gilgamesh]] epic...
21: ...e of [[Mitanni]] in northern Mesopotamia around [[1595 BC]], while the Babylonians controlled the south....
35: ... also depict houses built from reeds not unlike those built by the [[Marsh Arabs]] of Southern Iraq un... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
11: ... became common to bind the maps together into composite works. Although the term atlas was not in use...
15: ...escription of the Universe) (Duisburg, [[1585]]-[[1595]]).
21: ...d 'Atlas' are associated with [[mapmaking]]. The most famous is [[Atlas (mythology) | Atlas]] from [[G...
27: ...hilosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who supposedly made the first celestial globe. It was this A...
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