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  • 22Johannes Kepler — Infobox Scientist name = Johannes Kepler |175px image width = 175px caption = A 1610 portrait of Johannes Kepler by an unknown artist birth date = Birth date|1571|12|27 birth place = Weil der Stadt near Stuttgart, Germany residence = Baden… …

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  • 23Tide — This article is about tides in the Earth s oceans. For other uses, see Tide (disambiguation). Tidal redirects here. For other uses, see Tidal (disambiguation). High Tide redirects here. For other uses, see High Tide (disambiguation) …

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  • 24Spacetime — For other uses of this term, see Spacetime (disambiguation). Two dimensional analogy of spacetime distortion. Matter changes the geometry of spacetime, this (curved) geometry being interpreted as gravity. White lines do not represent the… …

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  • 25Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters …

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  • 26Earth — This article is about the planet. For other uses, see Earth (disambiguation). Earth   …

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  • 27Lorentz force — This article is about the equation governing the electromagnetic force. For a qualitative overview of the electromagnetic force, see Electromagnetism. For magnetic force of one magnet on another, see force between magnets. Electromagnetism …

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  • 28History of electrochemistry — Electrochemistry, a branch of chemistry, went through several changes during its evolution from early principles related to magnets in the early 16th and 17th centuries, to complex theories involving conductivity, electrical charge and… …

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  • 29Scientific revolution — This article is about a period in the history of science. For the process of scientific progress via revolution, proposed by Thomas Kuhn, see Paradigm shift …

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  • 30Scientific Revolution — The period which many historians of science call the Scientific Revolution can be roughly dated as having begun in 1543, the year in which Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly… …

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