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341. Hipparchus (190 BC - 120 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     30 Dec 2023: right ascension of the star referred to in the quotation is 123. ... G J Toomer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

342. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leibniz/

     30 Dec 2023: During the next few years Leibniz undertook a variety of different projects, scientific, literary and political. ... E J Aiton, J E Hofmann, F Kreiling, J Mittelstrass, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

343. Henri Andoyer (1862 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     7 Mar 2023: and of researches on physics contains numerous quotations from the works of Laplace, bearing on points of scientific and philosophical interest. ... S H Dieke, Andoyer, Marie Henri, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1 (New York 1970-1990), 156-157.

344. Paul Koebe (1882 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     7 Mar 2023: In [8] Ben Yandell summarises quotations from Courant in [3]:-. Reid quotes Courant to the effect that Koebe stole the idea of his thesis, not yet published, of which the two ... H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York

345. Pythagoras (570 BC - 490 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     30 Dec 2023: The society which he led, half religious and half scientific, followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious figure. ... Those who survived took refuge at Thebes and other places. K von Fritz, Biography in

346. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (G) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: The Merriam Webster dictionaries identify the nine-year-old nephew as Milton Sirotta, "b. ... Merriam-Webster dictionaries pronounce googol with a secondary stress on the second syllable.

347. Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     11 Jan 2024: I B Cohen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Z Bechler, Newton's physics and the conceptual structure of the scientific revolution (Dordrecht, 1991).

348. René Descartes (1596 - 1650) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     30 Dec 2023: M S Mahoney, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003). J F Scott, The Scientific Work of René Descartes (1987).

349. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     30 Dec 2023: M Clagett, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Stud. Hist. Sci. 18 (1979), 83-99. J J Schäffer, The scientific personality of Archimedes (Spanish), Fac.

350. Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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     4 Jan 2024: G Granger, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).