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- ===Before 1000 BC=== * ca. [[Middle Paleolithic|70,000 BC]] – South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with scratched [[Geometry|geomet ...65 KB (8,524 words) - 17:13, 26 February 2025
- ...Greek mathematicians]] studied conic sections, culminating around 200 BC with [[Apollonius of Perga]]'s systematic work on their properties. ===Menaechmus and early works=== ...69 KB (10,686 words) - 03:30, 20 January 2025
- ...nd, if so, how this could be done.<ref name=":1" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Georg Cantor]] enlarged the mathematical study of infinity by studying [ ...idea of infinity in Greece may be that of [[Anaximander]] (c. 610 – c. 546 BC) a [[Pre-Socratic philosophy|pre-Socratic]] Greek philosopher. He used the ...54 KB (7,877 words) - 14:55, 14 February 2025
- ...compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE.{{sfn|McKane|1993|p=324}} This chapter records the events during the re ...tion, which includes the [[Codex Cairensis]] (895), [[Aleppo Codex]] (10th century{{efn|Since 1947 the current text of [[Aleppo Codex]] is missing 2 Kings 14: ...41 KB (5,851 words) - 18:23, 26 November 2024
- ...actions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios<ref group="Note">ratios of 1 between mag ...ts for length, mass and time. Advances in [[electromagnetism]] in the 19th century necessitated additional units to be defined, and multiple incompatible syst ...106 KB (15,275 words) - 05:20, 9 February 2025
- * [[Law]] — [[Ancient Egypt]]ian law, dating as far back as 3000 BC, was based on the concept of [[Ma'at]] and characterised by tradition, [[rh ...y appearing in the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] (c.2055–1650 BC).<ref>{{Cite book |first1= John Coleman |last1= Darnell |author-link1= John ...163 KB (23,416 words) - 11:43, 24 February 2025
- ...irst orbital launches by country#List of first orbital launches by country|9th country to put a domestically built satellite into orbit]] using its [[safi ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, ...180 KB (24,048 words) - 09:26, 28 February 2025
- ...irca|287 BC}} – {{circa|212 BC}}) built his first elevator probably in 236 BC.<ref>[https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Laying-the-foundation-fo In the 17th century, prototypes of elevators were installed in the palace buildings of England ...145 KB (21,298 words) - 21:19, 22 February 2025
- }}</ref> Clocks like these were built from the 1st century BC through to [[Victorian era|Victorian]] times in Europe. A [[cuckoo clock]] ...sign|date=2010|publisher=McGraw Hill|isbn=978-0073529288|pages=360|edition=9th|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-R ...86 KB (12,481 words) - 23:59, 13 February 2025
- ...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 ...de candles using rendered animal fat (called tallow), beginning around 500 BC.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/can ...246 KB (34,499 words) - 14:19, 19 February 2025
- ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...ive.org/details/studentlectureno00theo | url-access= registration |edition=9th| date= 2003| publisher= [[Prentice Hall]]| location= New Jersey| isbn= 978- ...251 KB (37,240 words) - 05:11, 19 January 2025
- ...nery | journal= Unpublished (Later Published in Ince DC, Editor, Collected Works of AM Turing—Mechanical Intelligence, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992)| d ...nd their developments had mutual influences. In RNN, two early influential works were the [[Recurrent neural network#Jordan network|Jordan network]] (1986)< ...180 KB (23,460 words) - 20:17, 27 February 2025