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...s Xavier in Bologna, under the guidance of Luigi Marchenti, a pupil of the French mathematician [[Pierre Varignon]]. He entered the [[Society of Jesus]] on D ...i Analitiche''. Riccati's ''Institutiones analyticae'' is the fullest 18th-century Italian treatise on analytic methods in mathematics. ...

...curred earlier. Before the advent of modern tonality in the late 17th&nbsp;century, numerous composers produced collections of pieces in all seven [[Mode (mus ...in 1682.<ref>{{cite journal |first=John H. |last=Baron |title=A 17th&nbsp;century keyboard tablature in Brasov |journal=[[Journal of the American Musicologic ...

...uss and her second husband Joseph Maracci, a restaurateur and gambler. Her French German mother was a concert-level pianist. Her father, Italian and Spanish, ...omforting. There was always a group of radicals, malcontents, and indigent writers, intermingled with painters and dancers, waiting to be recharged by Carmeli ...

...ain periods in the history of ontological arguments. The first was in 11th century, when St. Anselm of Canterbury came up with the first ontological argument" ..."clear and distinct" idea of a supremely perfect being. In the early 18th century, [[Gottfried Leibniz]] augmented Descartes' ideas in an attempt to prove th ...

...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 ...

==Recorded history before 12th century== ...Oxford|access-date=14 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/8th-century-T4311.html}}</ref> ...

...significant advances in the [[history of cartography]], inspiring the 19th century map historian [[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld|Adolf Nordenskiöld]] to write "The ...versa, but the age of discovery, from the closing decade of the fifteenth century, stimulated the integration of these two mapping traditions: Mercator's wor ...