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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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  • ...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • In the last years of the 19th century, Max Planck was investigating the problem of black-body radiation first pos ...st=Helge |title=Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELrFDIldlawC |page=62 |year=1999 |ac ...
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  • ...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...s by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], on the use of the golden ratio in art. Another Italian painter, [[Piero della Francesca]], developed [[Euclid]]'s ideas on [[Persp ...
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  • ...ed in December 1938 by chemists [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Fritz Strassmann]] and physicists [[Lise Meitner]] and [[Otto Robert Frisch]]. Fission is a [[nuclear reactio In the last years of the 19th century, scientists frequently experimented with the [[cathode-ray tube]], which by ...
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  • '''Italian inventions and discoveries''' are objects, processes or techniques invented ...ouse of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of the tele ...
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  • ...[[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 ...
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  • ...ion involving the [[special unitary group]] SU(3); for their calculations, physicists use a convenient matrix representation known as the [[Gell-Mann matrices]], ...nb=yes|loc=p. 1}}</ref> including the concept of [[determinant]]s. In 1545 Italian mathematician [[Gerolamo Cardano]] introduced the method to Europe when he ...
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  • ...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 ...a Bachelor of Arts degree, that included supplementary courses in French, Italian, Latin, and logic.{{R|1="Western Daily Press 28 June 1923"|2="Staveley Barr ...
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  • ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...because its [[rest mass]] is so small (''[[List of diminutives by language#Italian|-ino]]'') that it was long thought to be zero. The [[mass]] of the neutrino ...
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  • The '''history of radiation protection''' begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that [[ionizing radiation]] from na ...relessly, increasing awareness of the dangers of [[radiation]] in the 20th century led to the implementation of various preventive measures worldwide, resulti ...
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