Isaac Newton | Biography, Facts, Discoveries, Laws . . . Isaac Newton (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London) was an English physicist and mathematician who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century
Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 History of the issue Questions about the nature of conscious awareness have likely been asked for as long as there have been humans Neolithic burial practices appear to express spiritual beliefs and provide early evidence for at least minimally reflective thought about the nature of human consciousness (Pearson 1999, Clark and Riel-Salvatore 2001)
World population - Wikipedia Estimates of world population by their nature are an aspect of modernity, possible only since the Age of Discovery Early estimates for the population of the world [10] date to the 17th century: William Petty, in 1682, estimated the world population at 320 million (current estimates ranging close to twice this number); by the late 18th century, estimates ranged close to one billion (consistent
Pliocene Epoch | Climate, Geology Geochronology | Britannica Pliocene Epoch, second of two major worldwide divisions of the Neogene Period, spanning the interval from about 5 3 million to 2 6 million years ago The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5 3 million years ago) and is further subdivided into two ages and their corresponding rock stages: the Zanclean (5 3 million to 3 6 million years ago) and the Piacenzian (3 6 million to 2 6
Timeline of plant evolution - Wikipedia The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria The fronds of some Carboniferous ferns are almost identical with those of living species Probably many species were epiphytic Fossil ferns include Pecopteris and the tree ferns Megaphyton and Caulopteris
Russia | History, Flag, Population, Map, President, Facts . . . Permafrost covers some 4 million square miles (10 million square km)—an area seven times larger than the drainage basin of the Volga River, Europe’s longest river—making settlement and road building difficult in vast areas In the European areas of Russia, the permafrost occurs in the tundra and the forest-tundra zone
John Stuart Mill - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 Life John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, then a northern suburb of London, to Harriet Barrow and James Mill James Mill, a Scotsman, had been educated at Edinburgh University—taught by, amongst others, Dugald Stewart—and had moved to London in 1802, where he was to become a friend and prominent ally of Jeremy Bentham and the Philosophical Radicals