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  1. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
    7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
    14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
    19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
    30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
  2. Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
    3: ...[[Mayflower]] landed at [[Plymouth Rock]] on the western shore of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in southeastern [[M...
    5: ...owned, and yet strangely ill-fated colonial ventures in America. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]...
    7: ...adford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. On [[March 22]], 16...
  3. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    2: ...s|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
    4: ...]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
    6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
    9: ...seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
    11: ...uickly mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrati...
  4. Clock (10086 bytes)
    2: ...e]]. A clock is usually a physical instrument, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]...
    5: ==Purposes ==
    9: ...atch]]es) are carried; big ones are in public places, e.g. a [[train station]] or [[church]]. A small ...
    14: ...e and date for all manner of operations whether these be for alarms, event initiation or just to displ...
    16: ===Ideal uses===
  5. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
    2: ... [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
    8: ===Ancestry===
    9: ...hamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and fa...
    17: ... [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[...
    21: ...n [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Couran...
  6. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    2: ...age:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([...
    4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]],...
    6: ...escartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
    10: ...John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
    12: At university Hobbes appears to have followed his own curriculum; he w...
  7. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    1: ...rn World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and a...
    2: ...rait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Cl...
    4: ...ne had written on these matters before". Nevertheless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents...
    6: ... the [[Turing test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
    11: ...he age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand]] a...
  8. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
    26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
    27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
    44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
    51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
  9. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    1: ...ary Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
    5: ... pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
    7: ...d into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
    9: ...k]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
    13: === Knights of Rhodes ===
  10. Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
    3: ...s in the development of [[science]], and asking questions about how science "works" both in a philosop...
    7: ...elative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of communication. Still, there was a considerabl...
    9: ...ary limitations to the scientific publication process.
    11: ... the first scientific community; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The A...
    13: ...functions, including a community open to and interested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar w...
  11. Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
    1: ...mon descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|analysis]...
    5: ...iest known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who cla...
    7: ... translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
    9: ...fessor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life know...
    11: ...ist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628&n...
  12. Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
    2: ...hanks the Archbishop for "worldly maintenance," "best earthly countenance", and "fatherly incouragemen...
    5: ...ot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
    7: ...lded by God, or Directions for Governors of Families'' (1653).
    9: ...323; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 218, which confuses him most oddly of all with one of the ejected min...

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