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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ..., had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During ...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Silk (8683 bytes)
5: ...igh demand for the fabric, silk was one of the staples of international [[trade]] prior to [[industria...
11: ...cloth produced was used in imperial robes or in diplomacy, as gifts to foreign dignitaries. The remai...
19: ...rry silkworm (''Bombyx mori''). The term "wild" implies that these silkworms are not capable of being ...
23: There is ample evidence that small quantities of wild silk were...
33: ...around 1619, ostensibly to discourage [[tobacco]] planting. Only the [[Shakers]] in Kentucky adopted t... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...nd became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There...
66: ...set-inflation bubble, the [[tulipomania]] of 1636-1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's firs...
72: ...]] (gypsies), gay and lesbian individuals, and people with mental retardation and other disabilites. A...
77: People from other parts of The Netherlands sometimes ob...
79: ...g the [[Eighty Years' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic]] as a resul... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
3: ... = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
37: ...originally consisted of the mainland [[Providence Plantations]], which was originally all part of the ...
40: In 1614 the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the island that is now ...
42: ... He called the site Providence and declared it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers....
44: ...assachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could talk to God by themselves, not necessarily... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
12: *[[1609]]-[[Henry Hudson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
22: ... ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; ...
34: *[[1637]]-[[New Haven Colony]] founded
65: ...]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Mary]]; Dominion of Ne...
94: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People] - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political phil...
6: ...Ren頄escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
12: ...racted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommend...
16: ...aris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or m... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
4: ... to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insi...
14: ...eling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering var...
18: ...ege of La Rochelle]] by Cardinal [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]]....
20: ... the [[Catholic Church]], and Descartes abandoned plans to publish ''[[The World (Descartes)|Treatise ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
559: *[[Robert Fludd]], (1574-1637){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...tency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]]...
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
13: ...ed, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences tha...
21: ...sy to identify unambiguously any given species of plant or animal. He proceeded further to introduce i...
23: ...a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the two-part scientific name makes it po... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...unes]] ([[1492]]-[[1578]]) who invented the principle.
10: ==Examples== - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...esis|hypotheses]] and [[deduction]]s to propose explanations for natural phenomena in the form of [[th...
7: ...ry BC|1550 BC]]) contains incantations and foul applications created to cast out diseased demons and o...
9: ...y well established. In ''Protagoras'' (318d-f), [[Plato]] mentions the teaching of arithmetic, astrono...
11: ...fic tradition: [[empiricism]]. For Aristotle, the Platonic, universal ideal is to be found in particul...
15: :''"The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to k... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ...ks. The visual arts, such as [[painting]], are employed to create the visual spectacle on the stage, ...
9: Singers and the roles they play are classified according to their vocal ranges....
11: ...a, and [[aria]], during which the movement of the plot often pauses, with the music becoming more melo...
13: ...genre in a context separate from its accompanying play, and has been transcribed for nearly all imagin...
20: ... ''opera'' means simply "works" in [[Latin]], the plural of <em>opus</em> suggesting that it combines ... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
8: ...aunched from the port of [[Gothenburg]] in late [[1637]]. [[Samuel Blommaert]] assisted with the fitting...
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