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91 matches to Metric System
Metric System. 1795 France.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.
Desargues, Girard. 1591-1661. French geometrician.
Fibonacci, Leonardo. 1170-1240. Pisa mathematician. Book of Abacus 1202. Fibonacci Numbers 1203. Practica Geometrica 1220.
Geometric. c9C BC. Last Mycenaean Greek art form.
Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.
Heron of Alexandria. 1C. Greek mathematician. Area of triangle. Metrica.
Suprematism. 20C. Russian school of geometric abstract art.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress. 1818. Restored King of France. Congress System.
Alcuin. c735-804. English Counselor to Charlemagne. Set up monastic education system in Europe.
Alphonsine Tables. 1252. Incorrect astronomical data on planets, based on geocentric system.
Anaximander. c611-547BC. Miletan (Greek) philosopher. First Greek maps. Attempted systematic explanation of Universe. Named zodiac signs 560BC.
Aristarchus. 310-230BC. Samos. First to postulate sun as center of solar system. Accused of impiety. Copernicus.
Autobahn. German road system begun by Hitler to reduce unemployment, 1934.
Berlin Decree. 1806. Napoleon announces Continental System blockading Britain.
Bhascara. 1114-85. Hindu mathematician/astrologer. First user of decimal system.
Bonaparte, Louis. 1778-1846. King of Holland 1806-10. Forced to abdicate after opposing Continental System. Napoleon’s brother.
Brehon Laws. (Feinechus) 8-17C. Irish legal system.
Büsching, Anton. 1724-93. German scientific geographer. New System of Geography 1762.
Canton System. 1759-1842. All China foreign trade through Canton.
Capitalism. System of private ownership of property and industry for profit. Free enterprise. Smith.
Caste System. Hereditary social division, esp. in Hindu India. Brahman. Kshatriyas. Vaisyas. Sudras. Untouchables.
Chase, Salmon. 1808-73. US. Founded Republican Party. National banking system.