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  1. //  Miscellaneous science stuff
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  4. #p <nat>English<o>scientist<o>philosopher<n>Roger Bacon<b>1214<d>1294
  5. #e <t>inv<n>eyeglasses<d>1280(10)<c>England<au>Roger Bacon
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  7. #p <nat>English<o>philosopher<n>William of Occam<sur>Occam<b>1285<d>1349(1)<c>Surrey
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  9. #p <nat>Flemish<o>geographer<n>Gerardus Mercator<b>1512 Mar 5<d>1594
  10. #e <t>discovery<au>Mercator<n>earth's magnetic pole<d>1546
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  12. #p <nat>English<o>scientist<o>philo<n>William Whewell<b>1794<d>1866
  13. #e <t>coin<t>science<d>1830<n>"scientist"<au>Whewell
  14. #e <t>coin<t>science<d>1840<n>"consilience"<au>Whewell
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  16. #e <t>theory<t>geology<d>1912<n>continental drift<c>Germany<info>by Alfred Wegener
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  18. #e <t>geology<d>1935<n>Richter scale<c>U.S.<info>developed by American seismologist Charles Richter for measuring the strength of earthquakes.
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  20. #e <t>theory<t>geology<d>1938<n>Greenhouse effect<c>Britain<info>British engineer George Callendar analyses decades of temperature readings and describes what is later known as the Greenhouse effect.
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