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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 ...

...s to develop a quantitative theory of airflow did not begin until the 18th century. In 1726 [[Isaac Newton]] became one of the first aerodynamicists in the mo Aerodynamics work throughout the 19th century sought to achieve [[heavier-than-air]] flight. [[George Cayley]] developed ...

...d makes references to how to deal with head wounds. Much later in the 6th century BCE the [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greeks]] began to focus on studies of the ...ism]] and [[transcendentalism]]. These formed the basis for the thought of scientists in this period. [[Georges Cuvier]] and Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire were le ...

...lestium]]}} in 1543. Increasingly accurate measurements were required, and scientists looked for measures that were universal and could be based on natural pheno ...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 ...

...eld emerged in the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic world]] during the 3rd century BC from applications of [[geometry]] to [[Astronomy|astronomical studies]]. ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...

...ermodynamic work, the caloric theory was, around the end of the eighteenth century, replaced by the "mechanical" theory of heat, which is accepted today. === 17th century–early 18th century === ...

...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 ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

...of matter occurs between the liquid and plasma states,<ref>This early 20th century discussion infers what is regarded as the plasma state. See page 137 of Ame The word ''gas'' was first used by the early 17th-century [[Flemish people|Flemish]] chemist [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]].<ref>{{Cite ...

...the human population will begin to decline in the second half of the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Cave |first1=Damien |last2=Bubola |first2=Emma |las ...s, broken down by continents, were published in the first half of the 19th century, at 600 million to 1&nbsp;billion in the early 1800s and 800&nbsp;million t ...

...hes zero as time increases.<ref>Douglas C. Giancoli (2000). [''Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics (3rd Edition)'']. Prentice Hall. {{ISBN|0 ..., Analysis. Translated by Hedrick, E. R.; Noble, C. A. (Translation of 3rd German ed.). Dover Publications, Inc. / The Macmillan Company. {{ISBN|978-0-486434 ...

...me more mathematical as a discipline throughout the first half of the 20th century, but introduction of new and generalized techniques in the period around th ...lysis dates back to the 17th century. Then, mainly in [[Holy Roman Empire|German]] universities, a style of instruction emerged which dealt specifically wit ...

...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...ere attending the County School.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 28 November 1914"}} [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|Germany had invaded Belgium]] on 4{{Nbsp}}August ...

The '''value-form''' or '''form of value''' (''"Wertform"'' in German) <ref>In English, one would normally say "the form of value", "the form tha ...s/]; Roberto Fineschi, "Dialectic of the Commodity and Its Exposition: The German Debate in the 1970s — A Personal Survey". In: Riccardo Bellofiore & Roberto ...

...ity]] used in heat transfer calculations. It is named after the eighteenth century French physicist [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] (1774–1862), and gives a simple ind ...mar |title=Pollution Prevention: The Waste Management Approach to the 21st Century |publisher=CRC Press |year=1999 |isbn=1-56670-495-2 |at=section 27, p. 15}} ...