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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
    90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
    128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
    129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
    187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]]
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
    24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
    46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
    52: ...with certainty to this period). We know that in [[1642]], when the [[civil war]] was just starting, Arte...
    88: ...ncommon and difficult choice, but also not an exceptional one. Before Artemisia, between the end of t...
  3. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
    36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
    40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
    41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
    51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
    11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
    123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
    251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
    285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
    164: *[[Isaac Newton]], [[England]],(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces...
    211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
    242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]]
  6. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ...], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[astronomer]], [[ph...
    10: ...hese are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
    18: ...pe to observe the [[sky]]. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the [[Netherlands]]...
    20: ...planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full description in ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' in March [[1610]]....
    24: ...e Sun. By contrast, the [[geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phase...
  7. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: Sir '''Isaac Newton''' ([[25 December]] [[1642]] – [[20 March]] [[1727]] by the [[Julian c...
    4: ... those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperbola|hyperbolic]] a...
    12: ...f biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and...
    19: ...Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no oth...
    23: ...t two years Newton worked at home on calculus, [[optics]] and [[gravitation]].
  8. History of California (38344 bytes)
    36: ...ew Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed on [[September 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claimin...
    38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [[Alta California|Alta (upper) California]] an...
    48: ...stocked his vessels, then stayed for a time and kept friendly relations with the aboriginal natives. ...
    50: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma...
    64: * [[1642]]: [[Luis Cestin de Canas]]
  9. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    2: ...lliam Shakespeare''' (April [[1564]]; [[baptism|baptised]] [[April 26]], [[1564]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]])...
    4: ...lled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world li...
    8: ...y [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
    14: ...ord dates to [[April 26]] of that year. Because baptisms were performed within a few days of birth, tr...
    23: ...rd. A son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]].
  10. Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
    9: ...te uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from abou...
    29: ...s rather than some form of magic. When Bruno attempted to leave Venice, Mocenigo denounced him to the ...
    43: ...view of a [[celestial sphere]], immutable, incorruptible, and superior to the terrestrial region. Brun...
    45: ...''sic''). [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1564]]-[[1642]]) and [[Johannes Kepler]] ([[1571]]-[[1630]]) we...
    49: ...the immobile earth at the center of the sphere. [[Ptolemy]] had numbered these at 1,022, grouped into ...
  11. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
    130: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727), scientist
    209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on...
  12. History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
    22: [[Brahmagupta]] (598-668) was the head of the astronomical obs...
    24: ... continuing the mathematical tradition of Brahmagupta. He wrote the ''[[Siddhantasiromani]]'' which co...
    46: ... and the compilation of the first star catalog. [[Ptolemy]] later referred to this work in his importa...
    52: ...allowed him to calculate the obliquity of the ecliptic, also known as the tilt of the Earth's axis rel...
    57: ...0pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that ou...
  13. James Cook (14770 bytes)
    1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explo...
    20: ...hind [[Abel Tasman]] over a century earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastlin...
    22: ...[[British colony]] in Australia. However, when Captain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Flee...
    32: ...oseph Banks]] was a bigger hero. Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, but re...
    34: ...Image:Cookroutes.PNG|frame|center|The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is show...
  14. March 20 (10075 bytes)
    16: ...ash; [[Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as t...
    17: ... party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
    29: ...rincess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [[The Mall (London)|The Mal...
    39: ...ck Panther]] once known as [[H. Rap Brown]], is captured after a gun battle that leaves a [[Georgia (U...
    107: ... - Sir [[Isaac Newton]], English physicist, (b. [[1642]])
  15. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
    114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
    141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
    211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
    233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]])
  16. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
    220: ...[Galileo Galilei]] ([[Italy]], [[1564]] – [[1642]])
    240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
    313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
    472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]])
  17. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
    22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
    26: ...cept for a short treatise on optics (''Tractatus opticus'') included in the collection of scientific t...
    30: The [[English Civil War]] broke out in [[1642]], and when the Royalist cause began to decline f...
    46: ...is negative version of the [[Golden Rule]], in chapter xv, 35, reads: "Do not that to another, which t...
  18. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
    32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
    597: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
    1179: *[[Isaac Newton]], (1642-1727){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
  19. Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
    15: ...acific basin is relatively uniform, with a mean depth of about 4270 m (14,000 ft). The major irregular...
    53: ...and trade; [[Abel Janszoon Tasman]] discovered ([[1642]]) [[Tasmania]] and [[New Zealand]]. The [[18th c...
    59: ...mineral wealth is hampered by the ocean's great depths. In shallow waters off the coasts of Australia ...
    71: * Soule, Gardner, The Greatest Depths (1970)
  20. Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
    35: ...here have historically been three major models adopted in various forms within the [[philosophy of sci...
    39: ...imply subsumed by the work of [[Isaac Newton]] ([[1642]]-[[1727]]) ([[classical mechanics]]), which itse...
    41: ...nt and [[incommensurability|incommensurate]] assumptions about the universe, and was uncertain about w...
    43: ...sly thought to be "non-scientific" were later accepted as a valid part of scientific canon.
    53: ...unexpected empirical results) make a certain concept "ready" for discovery. Simple priority disputes ...

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