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	1.	Descartes * - René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. Descartes was educated at the Jesuit college of La Flèche in Anjou. He entere... . .
	2.	Descartes' Meditations Home Page * - The publication of this English-Latin-French HTML edition of DesCartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is quite simply an experiment in electronic scholarship. We decided to make this edition available and to encourage its free distribution for scholarly... . .
	3.	About Rainbows * - Netlinks What is a rainbow? Author Donald Ahrens in his text Meteorology Today describes a rainbow as one of the most spectacular light shows observed on earth. Indeed the traditional rainbow is sunlight spread out into its spectrum of colors and divert... . .
	4.	ABU - CATALOGUE AUTEURS * - SOMMAIRE Catalogue des Auteurs A Aimé (Marcel) [anonyme] B Balzac (Honoré de) Bertrand (Louis) Bloy (Léon) Boileau (Nicolas) Boutmy (Eugène) C Cazotte (Jacques) Constant (Benjamin) Corneille (Pierre) Coster (Charles de) Coubert... . .
	5.	Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries * - Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by . .
	6.	Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness * - 3. Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness It is in the work of Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) that we find the formal beginning of experimental psychology. Before Fechner, as Boring . .
	7.	Psychology in America * - PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA Mind, Body, and Culture: American Psychology before William James Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent: William James and American Functional Psychology [By Eugene Taylor, Harvard University Medical School... . .
	8.	Albert Einstein - German/American Physicist * - Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany. Einstein contributed more than any other scientist since Sir Isaac Newton to our understanding of physical reality. Einstein worked at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland from 190... . .
	9.	Chronology of Scientific Developments * - Chronology of Scientific Developments 1514 Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus publishes ____, suggesting that the earth moves around the sun. 1536 Paracelsus publishes The Great Surgery Book. . .
	10.	ISAAC NEWTON * - Sir Isaac Newton, the culminating figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, was born on Jan. 4, 1643 (N.S.; Dec. 25, 1642, O.S.), in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Perhaps the greatest scientific geniu... . .