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Jean Richer (1630 - 1696) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richer/7 Mar 2023: had discerned with remarkable insight the great scientific possibilities of such a voyage. ... E Rosen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Archytas (428 BC - 350 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archytas/2 May 2023: In these Eutocius claims to quote the description given in History of geometry by Eudemus of Rhodes but the accuracy of the quotation is doubted by the authors of [10]. ... K von Fritz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Alexis Clairaut (1713 - 1765) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clairaut/2 Nov 2023: While in Basel, Clairaut became friends with Samuel König and, for many years, the two continued a useful scientific collaboration by correspondence. ... J Itard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752 - 1833) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Legendre/30 Dec 2023: J Itard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711 - 1787) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boscovich/23 Nov 2023: Finally let us look at Boscovich's scientific methodology. This is discussed in [15] in which Grmek writes:-. ... method. Z Markovic, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage/25 Jan 2024: N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Hist. Comput. 9 (3-4) (1988), 283-290. M R Williams, The scientific library of Charles Babbage, Ann.
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George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Berkeley/23 Nov 2023: G Buchdahl, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Tartaglia (1500 - 1557) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tartaglia/11 Jan 2024: A Masotti, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Christoph Scheiner (1573 - 1650) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scheiner/6 Aug 2023: Scheiner claimed, correctly, that he was the first to make continuous observations of sunspots of scientific value. ... W R Shea, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Robert Recorde (1510 - 1558) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Recorde/4 Jan 2024: J B Easton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).