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• Algebra
  equations. The Indian mathematicians Mahāvīra in the 9th century and Bhāskara II in the 12th century further refined Brahmagupta's methods and concepts.
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• Tsunami
  countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The Ancient Greece historian Thucydides suggested in his 5th century BC History of the Peloponnesian War that tsunamis were
  54 KB (6,607 words) - 16:35, 6 February 2024
• Charge (heraldry)
  European heraldry from at least as early as the 13th century, and some have been attested as early as the 11th century in Italy, where they have persisted in the
  55 KB (7,165 words) - 21:17, 6 February 2024
• History of mathematics (section 17th century)
  controversial subject among historians of mathematics. In the 14th century, Narayana Pandita completed his Ganita Kaumudi. Also in the 14th century, Madhava of Sangamagrama
  139 KB (15,899 words) - 20:14, 8 February 2024
• Swastika (section 19th century)
  scholarship suggests that Pāṇini lived in or before the 4th century BCE, possibly in 6th or 5th century BCE. An important early use of the word swastika in
  173 KB (16,447 words) - 05:42, 9 March 2024
• Proleptic Gregorian calendar
  also use it, especially when converting Long Count dates (1st century BC – 10th century AD). The best practice for citation of historically contemporary
  9 KB (946 words) - 22:20, 6 February 2024
• Decimal
  using positional counting rods, as described in the 3rd–5th century Sunzi Suanjing. The 5th century mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated a 7-digit approximation
  41 KB (4,798 words) - 23:55, 6 February 2024
• Quipu (section Spanish invasion)
  balanc[ing] the losses between them" after the Spanish invasion. In the early years of the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish officials often relied on the quipus
  51 KB (5,991 words) - 04:50, 16 March 2024
• Regnal number
  rarities and even their use was sporadic. Ordinals for monarchs before the 13th century are anachronisms, as are also ordinals for almost all later medieval
  24 KB (3,465 words) - 05:30, 9 March 2024
• Qibla
  Al-Nayrizi (Baghdad, c. 900), Ibn Yunus (10th–11th century), Ibn al-Haytham (11th century), and Al-Biruni (11th century). Today spherical trigonometry also underlies
  58 KB (7,890 words) - 20:27, 8 February 2024
• Research
  humanities is historical research, which is embodied in historical method. Historians use primary sources and other evidence to systematically investigate a
  64 KB (6,451 words) - 23:42, 6 February 2024
• Shades of gray (section Spanish gray)
  colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11. Spanish gray is the color that is called gris (gray in Spanish) in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations)
  23 KB (2,264 words) - 18:06, 6 February 2024
• Glossolalia (section 20th century)
  of the New Testament into Middle English in the Wycliffe Bible in the 14th century. Frederic Farrar first used the word glossolalia in 1879. In 1972, William
  56 KB (7,460 words) - 02:16, 12 November 2023
• Fleur-de-lis
  crenellations on the 14th-century Muslim Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan. It can also be seen on the doors of the 16th-century Hindu Padmanabhaswamy Temple
  65 KB (7,747 words) - 18:46, 6 February 2024
• Scribal abbreviation (category Articles containing Spanish-language text) (section Examples of 8th- and 9th-century Latin abbreviations across Europe)
  by the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in the 12th century and later in the 15th century, when it was rediscovered by Johannes Trithemius, abbot
  33 KB (3,811 words) - 15:02, 6 February 2024
• Arithmetic
  The first mechanical calculators were invented in the 17th century. The 18th and 19th centuries saw the development of modern number theory and the formulation
  176 KB (16,440 words) - 19:10, 6 February 2024
• Tyrian purple
  purple was rediscovered. This finding built on reports from the 15th century to the 18th century and explored the biotechnology process behind woad fermentation
  37 KB (4,333 words) - 16:21, 6 February 2024
• Cubism
  Short description: Early-20th-century avant-garde art movement Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting
  95 KB (10,419 words) - 16:45, 6 February 2024
• Google Books
  000 texts, including manuscripts written in palm leaves dating back to 8th century. University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries The partnership
  99 KB (9,294 words) - 20:01, 6 February 2024
• Aztec codices
  examples of this tradition reach into the early seventeenth century. Since the 19th century, the word codex has been applied to all Mesoamerican pictorial
  38 KB (5,056 words) - 23:01, 17 December 2022

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