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  2. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    A history of multiple discoveries involving LATE appears in Baker and Lindeman (2024). [ 127 ] 1998: Saul Perlmutter , Adam G. Riess , and Brian P. Schmidt —working as members of two independent projects, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team —simultaneously discovered in 1998 the accelerating expansion of the ...

  3. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...

  4. Discovery (observation) - Wikipedia

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    Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful, "portal". In sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and involves providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations, using knowledge previously acquired through abstract thought and from ...

  5. Information history - Wikipedia

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    Information history is an emerging discipline related to, but broader than, library history.An important introduction and review was made by Alistair Black (2006). [15] A prolific scholar in this field is also Toni Weller, for example, Weller (2007, 2008, 2010a and 2010b).

  6. James Harvey Robinson - Wikipedia

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    James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 – February 16, 1936) [1] was an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, [a] a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.

  7. J. R. McNeill - Wikipedia

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    McNeill focuses on environmental history, a field in which he has been recognized as a pioneer. [1] In 2000, he published his best-known book, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental change on an unprecedented scale.

  8. Game of the Day: The Book of Treasures - AOL

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    We enjoy word games so much that we decided to create one! Games.com proudly presents The Book of Treasures™. Jessica West is a librarian at an ancient library that is rumored to house a lost ...

  9. History of the World (book) - Wikipedia

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    History of the World [1] is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote By Ski in Norway , one of the first British accounts of the sport).