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3 days ago · The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany —that part of natural science dealing with organisms traditionally treated as plants. Rudimentary botanical science began with empirically based plant lore passed from generation to generation in the ...
1 day ago · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a] History of technology By technological eras Premodern Prehistoric Stone Age (lithic) Neolithic Revolution Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Ancient Modern Proto-industrialization First Industrial Revolution Standardization Second ...
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4 days ago · Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) is important in the history of mathematics for inspiring and guiding others. His Platonic Academy, in Athens, became the mathematical center of the world in the 4th century BC, and it was from this school that the leading mathematicians of the day, such as Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390 - c. 340 BC), came.
4 days ago · Braddick represents the social history view, tracing Brooks’ scholarship from an initial interest in the role of lawyers and legal ideas in 17th-century politics, through an extensive analysis of early modern litigation and the lower legal profession (published as Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth in 1986), and into the explorations ...
5 days ago · Print. During excavations launched ahead of an upcoming electric power plant construction project, archaeologists unearthed an approximately 2,700-year-old necropolis about 31 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Naples, Italy. The fascinating discovery was announced in a press release issued by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and ...
5 days ago · By the 17th century, England's growing dominance in a European world economy also brought an increasing range of new foodstuffs. If many of these were to be reserved for the tables of the rich, contemporary commentators were struck by the sight of ordinary Londoners munching oranges in the capital's streets.
4 days ago · In the class-structured society, dress became the token of social status. It was from the Xia (21st-17th century BC) and Shang (17th-11th century BC) Dynasties that the dress system came into being in China. In the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256BC), the system was perfected. From then on distinctions regarding color, design and adornment of ...
