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  • ...[[University of Göttingen]], traveled to South Africa to teach at the only women's college south of the equator, and wrote two books about her experiences t ...a to teach at [[Huguenot College]], at that time "the only institution for women south of the equator".{{r|huguenot}} While "teaching advanced mathematics" ...
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  • ...]] (11th–12th centuries), physician who wrote several influential works on women's medicine; whose texts on [[gynecology]] and [[obstetrics]] were widely us ...tician, author of many of the best books on arithmetic written in the 15th Century ...
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  • ...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...
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  • ...mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> * c. 1800 BC&nbsp;– [[Berlin Papyrus 6619]] (Egypt, 19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution.<ref name="buffalo1 ...
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  • *'''[[Andrey Bolotov]]''', major 18th-century [[agriculturist]], discovered [[dichogamy]], pioneered [[cross-pollination] *'''[[Sergei Chetverikov]]''', pioneer of [[modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]] ...
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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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  • ...f the Women's Engineering Society, replacing her as section leader for the women in the research department. In 1962, she moved with her mother and sister t ...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 ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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 ...
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  • In the last years of the 19th century, scientists frequently experimented with the [[cathode-ray tube]], which by ...ain applications into the 21st century, when it attracted the attention of mathematicians interested in its properties,<ref name="Gamow's Liquid Drops">{{cite journa ...
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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 ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...
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