Simon Stevin (Dutch: [ˈsimɔn steːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various... 31 KB (3,666 words) - 10:43, 22 March 2024 |
Simon Stevin was a Dutch language academic journal in pure and applied mathematics, or Wiskunde as the field is known in Dutch. Published in Ghent, edited... 2 KB (110 words) - 16:19, 21 October 2023 |
12 equal temperament (section Simon Stevin) are Zhu Zaiyu (also romanized as Chu-Tsaiyu. Chinese: 朱載堉) in 1584 and Simon Stevin in 1585. According to Fritz A. Kuttner, a critic of the theory, it is... 51 KB (4,835 words) - 16:33, 22 February 2024 |
The ship RV Simon Stevin is used to perform coastal oceanographic research in the Southern Bight of the North Sea and in the eastern part of the English... 5 KB (346 words) - 16:58, 27 June 2023 |
History of gravitational theory (section Simon Stevin) Flemish polymath Simon Stevin performed a demonstration for Jan Cornets de Groot, a local politician in the Dutch city of Delft. Stevin dropped two lead... 88 KB (10,500 words) - 09:25, 6 April 2024 |
Varro (1584), Simon Stevin (1586), and Galileo Galilei (1592). Although it was not the first, the derivation of Flemish engineer Simon Stevin is the most... 39 KB (3,972 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024 |
HSM Oldenbarneveldt - Simon Stevin HSM 190 - 193... 4 KB (323 words) - 04:25, 7 August 2022 |
by Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment: 19–21 but earlier by Simon Stevin who dropped lead balls of different masses off the Delft churchtower... 48 KB (5,546 words) - 10:37, 23 April 2024 |
Colony Simon Stepaniak (born 1997), American football player Simon Stevin (1548–1620), Netherlandish mathematician, physicist and engineer Simon Tahamata... 22 KB (2,377 words) - 19:24, 28 April 2024 |
De Thiende, published in 1585 in the Dutch language by Simon Stevin, is remembered for extending positional notation to the use of decimals to represent... 5 KB (676 words) - 14:20, 17 April 2024 |
in all the connected vessels. This was discovered by Simon Stevin as a consequence of Stevin's Law. It occurs because gravity and pressure are constant... 3 KB (322 words) - 12:24, 2 March 2024 |
p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-31536-4. Struik, D. J.; Stevin, Simon (1958), The Principal Works of Simon Stevin, Mathematics (PDF), vol. II–B, C. V. Swets & Zeitlinger... 51 KB (6,559 words) - 16:25, 29 April 2024 |
different from [the] three aforesaid [powers or magnitudes]. [...]" in 1586, Simon Stevin uses the Dutch term staltwicht ("parked weight") for momentum in De Beghinselen... 23 KB (2,893 words) - 17:01, 3 April 2024 |
currency systems where units are related by factors of ten was suggested by Simon Stevin who in 1585 first advocated the use of decimal numbers for everyday purposes... 22 KB (2,520 words) - 02:22, 5 April 2024 |
relationship to musical tuning in 1580 (drafted, rewritten 1610) by Simon Stevin. In 1581 Italian musician Vincenzo Galilei may be the first European... 9 KB (852 words) - 18:52, 16 September 2023 |
Lodewijk, he studied in Heidelberg and later in Leiden where he met Simon Stevin. The States of Holland and Zeeland paid for his studies, as their father... 30 KB (2,863 words) - 19:23, 6 April 2024 |
by Amerigo Vespucci and subsequently by Galileo Galilei, as well as Simon Stevin, but they did not realize what they contributed. Though Galileo determined... 42 KB (5,398 words) - 04:45, 2 May 2024 |
introduction to the theory of numbers, Oxford 1938. Simon Stevin. l'Arithmétique de Simon Stevin de Bruges, annotated by Albert Girard, Leyde 1625, p... 34 KB (6,516 words) - 18:58, 7 January 2024 |