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Venus : the Second Planet
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. On June 8 2004, Venus will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun, appearing as a large black dot trav... |
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Uranus, 7th Planet from the Sun
Uranus is the 7th planet from the Sun. It was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel and named for the Greek god personifying heaven. A blue-green gas giant, it has almos... |
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Neptune, 8th Planet from the Sun
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by diameter). Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus.
In Roman mythology Nept... |
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Logarithmic Timeline of the Universe
Timelines covering largely varying timescales are more conveniently represented on a logarithmic scale. This one covers from the Big Bang (NOW minus 10^10.14 years) to 31... |
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Science Timeline
History of science timeline for biology, chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, and philosophy of science... |
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History and Facts of Calendars
Timeline of interesting calendar facts. Length of the tropical year, defined as the average interval between vernal equinoxes. This calendar year was the objective of the... |
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A brief history of Opium
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real: André Malraux. The opium poppy is cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The S... |
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Timeline in Optics
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You: This timeline focuses on events that affected the science of optics from prehistory to present day. microscopy, photomicro... |
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Quantum Theory : Particle Physics Timeline
For over two thousand years people have thought about the fundamental particles from which all matter is made, starting with the gradual development of atomic theory, fol... |
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Anaximander of Miletus, Philosopher
Anaximander, Ionian philosopher of Miletus, the first Greek known to have written (c.546) a book in prose, a treatise on nature, now lost except for one quotation. It was... |
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Anaxagoras, Cause of Eclipses
Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. He was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Abou... |
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Democritus, Atomic Theory
Democritus of Abdera is best known for his atomic theory but he was also an excellent geometer. Very little is known of his life but we know that Leucippus was his teache... |
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A Timeline of Symmetry
Symmetry in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Many links to the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St Andrews, and to the Nobel Foundation... |
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Epicurus, Pleasure is the Highest Good
Epicurus was born in the Greek colony on Samos, but spent most of his active life in Athens, where he founded yet another school of philosophy. At "the Garden," Epicurus... |
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Aristarchus, Sun at center of Universe
Aristarchus of Samosis the first person we know of who suggested that the earth might go around the sun and not the other way around. He figured this out by looking at th... |
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