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  • .... The problem is indeterminate, but it is made strictly determinate by the century of its utterance and the limit to a man's life. Those born in 1722 (1764–42 ...''The Elements of Algebra'' (1828),{{sfn|Bourdon|1828}} a translation of a French textbook by {{interlanguage link|Louis Bourdon|fr}}, followed by ''Elements ...
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  • ...irst=Jon |year=2012 |publication-date=2012 |title=Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond |location=Cambridge |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-0-7456-346 ...miltonian mechanics]]). These advances, made predominantly in the 18th and 19th centuries, extended beyond earlier works; they are, with some modification, ...
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  • ...tions occurred at the beginning of the Mongol [[Yuan dynasty]] in the 13th century, but was later brought back with regional quotas which favored the Mongols [[File:Tripos_exam_1842.jpg|thumb|From the mid 19th century, universities began to institute written examinations to assess the aptitud ...
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  • ...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...
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  • ...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 === ...
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  • ...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 ...tics in the service of social and economic analysis dates back to the 17th century. Then, mainly in [[Holy Roman Empire|German]] universities, a style of ins ...
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  • ...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...
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  • Iranian philosophers and inventors may have created the first batteries (sometimes known as the ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, ...
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  • ==Recorded history before 12th century== ...Oxford|access-date=14 October 2014|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Oxford/8th-century-T4311.html}}</ref> ...
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  • ...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 ...designed by [[Mario Calderara]] and financed by [[Ambroise Goupy]] at the French firm [[Blériot Aéronautique]].<ref>Mario Calderara, Commander Calderara Gla ...
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  • ...m, as well as to various movements of the late 19th century and early 20th century such as [[Luminism (American art style)|American]], [[Belgium|Belgian]], an ...used throughout the ages, although with more intensity during the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref name=":9"/> As it is a wet technique, it provides great tran ...
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  • ...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W * [[Catapult]] — A Catapult dating to the 19th century B.C was found on the walls of the fortress of [[Buhen]].<ref name="wac">{{C ...
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