| Gerolamo Cardano "Cardanus" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Cardanus (crater). For the stag beetle genus, see Cardanus (beetle). Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano (French Jerome Cardan, Latin Hieronymus Cardanus; September 24, 1501 — September 21 1576) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler. Gerolamo_Cardano
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| Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (; 22 April 1724 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. Kant created a new widespread perspective in philosophy which influenced philosophy through to the 21st Century. Immanuel_Kant
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| Maurice Merleau-Ponty Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( in French; March 14, 1908 – May 3, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world. Maurice_Merleau-Ponty
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| Uranium Uranium () is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. Besides its 92 protons, a uranium nucleus can have between 141 and 146 neutrons, with 146 (U-238) and 143 in its most common isotopes. Uranium
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| Web crawler A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms or Web spider, Web robot, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutter. This process is called Web crawling or spidering. Web_crawler
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| Milan Milan (; (listen) is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the regional capital of Lombardy. The city has a population of about 1.3 million, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.08 million. The Milan metropolitan area, by far the largest in Italy, is estimated by OECD to have a population of 7.4 million. Milan
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| Electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a well established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania (often in bipolar disorder), catatonia, schizophrenia and other disorders. Electroconvulsive_therapy
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| Henri Poincaré Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 mathematician and theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. Henri_Poincaré
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| Gian-Carlo Rota Gian-Carlo_Rota
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| GNU LilyPond GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. Unlike some commercial, proprietary music engraving software, such as Finale and Sibelius, LilyPond does not contain its own graphical user interface (although others like Denemo have been created) for the creation of scores. GNU_LilyPond
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| Categorical imperative The categorical imperative is the central philosophical concept in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as well as modern deontological ethics. Introduced in Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, it may be defined as the standard of rationality from which all moral requirements are derived.According to Kant, human beings occupy a special place in creation, and morality can be summed up in one ultimate commandment of reason, or imperative, from which all duties and obligations derive. Categorical_imperative
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| Alexander Scriabin Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (, , Aleksandr Nikolajevič Skr'abin; sometimes transliterated as Skriabin, Skryabin, or Scriabine) (composer and pianist who initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Chopin. Alexander_Scriabin
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| Perfect hash function Perfect_hash_function
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| Loch Ness Monster/Archive 2 Talk:Loch_Ness_Monster/Archive_2
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| List of universities in Italy Italian universities, sorted in ascending order by the name of the city they are situated. Colleges which are not directly recognized by the Italian Government, such as institutions from international universities, are listed separately. List_of_universities_in_Italy
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| Critique of Pure Reason The Critique of Pure Reason () by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Also referred to as Kant's "first critique," it was followed by the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgement. Critique_of_Pure_Reason
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| University of Milan The University of Milan (, UNIMI) is one of the largest universities in Italy, with about 62,801 students, a teaching and research staff of 2,455 and a non-teaching staff of 2,200.The university is a member of the League of European Research Universities. University_of_Milan
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| John Bird (astronomer) John Bird (1709 - 1776) the great mathematical instrument maker was born at Bishop Auckland. He worked in London for Jeremiah Sisson, and by 1745 he had his own business in the Strand. Bird was commissioned to make a brass quadrant 8 feet across for the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where it is still preserved. John_Bird_(astronomer)
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| Critique of Judgement The Critique of Judgement (Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790), or in the new Cambridge translation Critique of the Power of Judgment, also known as the third critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Critique_of_Judgement
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| List of schools of veterinary medicine veterinary school throughout the world. List_of_schools_of_veterinary_medicine
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