Nicole Oresme (French: [nikɔl ɔʁɛm]; c. 1320–1325 – 11 July 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher...
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by John Philoponus, which Galileo was aware of. In the 14th century, Nicole Oresme had derived the time-squared law for uniformly accelerated change, and...
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his elegantly simple proof of the divergence of the harmonic series, Nicole Oresme proved that the series 1/2 + 2/4 + 3/8 + 4/16 + 5/32 + 6/64 + 7/128...
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spelling "Nicole" also saw use as a mediaeval French man's name, e.g., Nicole Oresme. Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977), pop and rock singer Nicole Appleton...
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volume or area. The work of Nicole Oresme in the 14th century had either been forgotten by, or was unknown to them. Oresme had posited such things as an...
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History of economic thought (section Nicole Oresme)
The history of economic thought is the study of the philosophies of the different thinkers and theories in the subjects that later became political economy...
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divergent series. Its divergence was proven in the 14th century by Nicole Oresme using a precursor to the Cauchy condensation test for the convergence...
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Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno...
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illuminator of Nicole Oresme's Le livre du Ciel et du Monde, a translation of and commentary on Aristotle's De caelo produced for Oresme's patron, King...
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translation of Aristotle's Politics by 14th-century scientist and philosopher Nicole Oresme. It is the first extant translation of the Politics into a modern vernacular...
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Christian clerics and scholars from Isidore and Bede to Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme maintained the spirit of rational inquiry, Western Europe would see...
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pp. 332–45, 382–91. Oresme, Nicole. "Questions on the Geometry of Euclid" Q. 14, pp. 560–65, in Marshall Clagett, ed., Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry...
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works of medieval mathematicians and philosophers such as John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Roger Bacon, whose sophistication surprised him. He consequently...
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qualitatum et motuum, the 14th-century philosopher and mathematician Nicole Oresme introduces the concept of curvature as a measure of departure from straightness;...
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Latitude of Forms (attributed to Jacobus de Sancto Martino or, perhaps, to Nicole Oresme) about 300 years before can be interpreted as "proto bar charts". Bar...
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Olaf Pedersen (section Oresme)
in Paris. Returning to Denmark, he obtained a doctorate for work on Nicole Oresme in 1956, when he became a lecturer at Aarhus University. In 1965 a department...
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science. Ockham probably died of the Black Plague. Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme were his followers. Jacopo Dondi dell'Orologio (1290-1359) was an Italian...
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century by the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, and was proved by Nicole Oresme. It states that a uniformly accelerated body (starting from rest, i...
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of the problems of the Ptolemaic model. In the 14th century, bishop Nicole Oresme discussed the possibility that the Earth rotated on its axis, while...
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medieval Catholic mathematicians and philosophers such as John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Roger Bacon as the founders of modern science. Duhem concluded that...
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fourteenth century skeptic Nicole Oresme however included astronomy as a part of astrology in his Livre de divinacions. Oresme argued that current approaches...
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Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Florence Nightingale, Bertrand Russell, Nicole Oresme, Thomas Young, Sequoyah, Thomas Jefferson, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Maya...
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fourteenth-century sceptic Nicole Oresme however included astronomy as a part of astrology in his Livre de divinacions. Oresme argued that current approaches...
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the slightly earlier works of Walter Burley, Gerard of Brussels, and Nicole Oresme, these individuals expanded upon the concepts of 'latitudes' and what...
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a moral example for his successors. It draws heavily on the work of Nicole Oresme (who translated Aristotle's moral works into French) and Giles of Rome...
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undermined the Aristotelian model. Their work in turn was elaborated by Nicole Oresme who pioneered the practice of illustrating the laws of motion with graphs...
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14th century (approx.) Nicole Oresme + plus sign 1360 (approx.), abbreviation for Latin et resembling the plus sign Nicole Oresme − minus sign 1489 (first...
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14th Century. In his questiones on the Sphere (written before 1362), Nicole Oresme described how to combine circular motions to produce a reciprocating...
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horizontally. The first known bar charts are usually attributed to Nicole Oresme, Joseph Priestley, and William Playfair. A pie chart shows percentage...
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year. Ibn Khaldun begins work on the Muqaddimah. Nicole Oresme is elected bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of Aristotle...
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