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...ry of women in science pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. |date=2000 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-92040-X |pages=309 |oclc=10688 ...=Magazine |first1=Smithsonian |last2=McNeill |first2=Leila |title=The 17th-Century Lady Astronomer Who Took Measure of the Stars |url=https://www.smithsonianm ...

* 5th century BC - The [[Zeno's paradoxes]], * 5th century BC - [[Antiphon (orator)|Antiphon]] attempts to [[Squaring the circle|squar ...

...|access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref> Sarma has referred to all of them as astronomers. K. V. Sarma (1919–2005) was an Indian [[historian of science|historian]] o ==List astronomers and mathematicians of the Kerala school== ...

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Since antiquity, astronomers have progressively refined the definition of the tropical year. The entry f In the 2nd century BC [[Hipparchus]] measured the time required for the Sun to travel from an ...

...harvnb|Katz|1995}}; {{harvnb|Roy|2021|loc=Ch. 1. Power Series in Fifteenth-Century Kerala, pp.&nbsp;1–22}}</ref> Using modern notation, these series are: All three series were later independently discovered in 17th century Europe. The series for sine and cosine were rediscovered by [[Isaac Newton] ...

...eld emerged in the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic world]] during the 3rd century BC from applications of [[geometry]] to [[Astronomy|astronomical studies]]. [[Sumer]]ian astronomers studied angle measure, using a division of circles into 360 degrees.<ref>{{ ...

Astronomers and great thinkers of the past were able to record observations and attempt ...one depicts Earth in the day.<ref name=DatEA>Source: ''Dante and the Early Astronomers'' by M. A. Orr, 1913.</ref>]] ...

...peared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geometry]] to understa ...the theory of [[manifold]]s and [[Riemannian geometry]]. Later in the 19th century, it appeared that geometries without the [[parallel postulate]] ([[non-Eucl ...

...the [[seconds pendulum]] (a pendulum with a half-period of one second) one century earlier, but this was rejected as it had been discovered that this length v ...des Archives]]}}, a platinum bar held in Paris. During the mid nineteenth century, following the [[American Revolution]] and [[Decolonization of the Americas ...

*'''[[Andrey Bolotov]]''', major 18th-century [[agriculturist]], discovered [[dichogamy]], pioneered [[cross-pollination] *'''[[Sergei Chetverikov]]''', pioneer of [[modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]] ...

...[[history of Islam]], traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.<ref name=Saliba>{{cite book|last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George ...phor of a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]] began to be applied in 19th-century literature about [[Islamic history]], in the context of the western aesthet ...

...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...