Archimedes found that Pi was between 3 10/70 and 3 10/71. Ptolemy was the next researcher. In 150 AD‚ he calculated pi to 3.1416. In 480‚ Zu Chongzhi calculated pi to seven decimal places. In 1665‚ Isaac Newton calculated it to 16 places. In the 17th century pi began being called the Ludolphian number after Ludolph van Ceulen‚ a German mathematician. He calculated pi to 35 places. The first person to use the Greek letter was a Welsh mathematician William Jones‚ in 1706. People use pi everyday
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In the early 17th century in North America‚ the very concept of freedom varied among different groups found within the colonies. The very definition of freedom in itself was influenced by a great deal of factors such as‚ race‚ gender‚ social status and religious beliefs. By looking through the many examples and diverse groups such as slaves‚ indentured servants‚ Native Americans‚ Women‚ Puritans‚ and property owners‚ the similarities and differences become shockingly clear. Firstly‚ I want to focus
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Portrayal of women in the middle ages: By the Middle Ages‚ it was commonly accepted that Eve was principally to blame for the disobedience that led to the fall of humanity. Greek ideas had replaced Jewish in Christian thinking‚ including the notion that the soul was good but the body evil. Heretical though this might have been‚ it didn’t stop sexuality being regarded as somehow evil. One of the few recorded medieval women writers‚ the mystic Margery Kempe‚ aspired to celibacy even within marriage
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Geographical exploration holds a very important place in the history of Europe and even in the world history. It was due to these discoveries that the world became a smaller place. By the beginning of the 15th century‚ big ships were built and the magnetic compass was invented. The goods from Asia were transported to Europe through the Red Sea via Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Although there was another route to Asia through the Gulf‚ owing to the monopoly of Arabs over it‚ it was very insecure
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What was the reformation? A sixteenth century movement from which the protestant churches originated. The Reformation is one of the most profound processes of change in Europe of the sixteenth century. Intense criticism of the Church of Rome led by the pope resulted in various reformational currents and the formation of several Protestant church reformations. The critical views of the religious sphere deeply impacted the spiritual‚ social‚ and cultural terrain‚ as well as upon the political sphere
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The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety
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The Differences Between 16th and 19th Century Imperialism and their Effects on the World Today. Name: Mr. Big Student #: C10539956 Course: INS 201 Professor: Dr. Ventricle 1. What is ‘imperialism’? How did 19th-century colonialism‚ empire building‚ high imperialism differ from those of earlier times: in particular from the colonialism of early- modern mercantilism (16th to18th centuries)? ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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During the 17th century‚ many nations started settling all throughout North America. Spanish conquistadors claimed much of the Southwest‚ while England began to occupy the Northeast. The Spanish and English colonies varied in terms of the impact of religion and control of the economy. The Spanish and English colonies varied in terms of religion such as immigration and opinions on salvation. Starting in the late 1500s and early 1600s‚ conquistadors such as Vasco Nunuez de Balboa and Herman Cortes
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The following text is an extract from Friedrich Engels’ book The Condition of Working Class in England‚ 1845 published in 1868-69. As the title indicates us‚ this text deals with England’s condition after the Industrial Revolution. Indeed the Industrial Revolution brought many changes in the industry of the country but also in social terms. This revolution made controversy because
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The later Protestant Churches generally date their doctrinal separation from the Roman Catholic Church to the 16th century. The Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church‚ by priests who opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice—especially the teaching and the sale of indulgences or the abuses thereof‚ and simony‚ the selling and buying of clerical offices—that the reformers saw as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church’s hierarchy
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