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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that the land-mass occupie... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, t... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
21: == Early scientific calculations: physicists versus geologists and evolutionists =...
23: ...Kelvin|William Thomson]] of [[Glasgow]] published calculations that fixed the age of the Earth at between 20 mi...
27: ...mas Huxley|Thomas H. Huxley]], attacked Thomson's calculations, suggesting they appeared precise in themselves b...
29: ...e of the Earth that was consistent with Thomson's calculations. However, they assumed that the Sun was only glow...
41: ...lations of the age of the Earth were based. These calculations assumed that the Earth and Sun had been created a... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
53: Some have purported that modern calculations reveal the [[Great Pyramid of Giza#Labor|Great Py... - Sun (20830 bytes)
191: ...t]], or sun tracker, must be guided by continuous calculations. The [[National Renewable Energy Laboratory]] has... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
58: ...nce from this unknown object to the Earth. Gauss' calculations placed the object between the planets [[Mars (pla... - Meteorology (21327 bytes)
46: ...) also seem likely to reduce errors in forecasts. Calculations are made to find where extra observations would m... - Galileo Galilei (37056 bytes)
71: ...olygon or circular sector, and a variety of other calculations. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
33: ...shape. However, after spending twenty years doing calculations with data collected by [[Tycho Brahe]], Kepler co... - World War II (58065 bytes)
202: ...ates. In addition, the pressing need for numerous calculations for various projects like [[Colossus computer|cod... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
101: ...lict would be in Southeast Asia. By the political calculations of his administration, the U.S. had to work quick... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
154: ...r [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]]' motion. He sent his calculations to Sir [[George Airy]], who asked Adams for a cla...
156: ...rrier]], independently of Adams, produced his own calculations but also experienced difficulties in encouraging ... - Mathematics (25071 bytes)
14: ...es within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations in commerce, to measure land and to predict astro...
18: ...eral subfields, or in a helpful tool for common [[calculations]], often that piece of mathematics is called beau...
35: ...hin mathematics first arose out of the need to do calculations in commerce, to measure land and to predict [[ast... - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
20: ...c numerals|Arabic digits]] in Spain, and could do calculations in his head that were extremely difficult for peo... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
64: ...ed [[tally stick]]s - but was not used to perform calculations. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
18: ...is lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculations, but always in his spare time and never as a prof... - Computer (32773 bytes)
73: ...ary to store intermediate values for use in later calculations. The performance of many computers is largely dic...
107: ... large size and cost, mainly performed scientific calculations, often to support military objectives. The [[ENIA... - Ramadan (3394 bytes)
12: ...rt of the month can be determined by astronomical calculations.) - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
9: ... needed a very accurate timepiece to make correct calculations of the locations of [[star]]s. Ellicott was impre...
11: ...y of astronomy at age 58. He was able to make the calculations to predict [[solar]] and [[lunar]] [[eclipse]]s a...
15: ...newly published [[almanac]] with its astronomical calculations. Jefferson responded politely, but later speculat... - Atom (13259 bytes)
59: ... other techniques are used, including theoretical calculations. As an example, the size of a [[hydrogen]] atom ...
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