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  2. Giovanni Poleni (1683 - 1761) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Poleni's scientific activities were paralleled by classical researched, which were described in treatises on the temple of Ephesus, on ancient theatres and amphitheatres, on French archaeological findings, on an Augustan ... 1739). Another interest which

  3. Claude Dechales (1621 - 1678) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: W L Schaaf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  4. Léon Foucault (1819 - 1868) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: Donné was the scientific editor of the Journal des Débats which was published daily. ... He made many scientific discoveries and invented many other machines to assist the astronomers at the Observatory.

  5. William Berwick (1888 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: T Hawkins, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  6. Nicolaus (I) Bernoulli (1687 - 1759) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Nicolaus(I)/

    21 Dec 2023: J O Fleckenstein, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  7. Serenus (300 - 360) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: I Bulmer-Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

  8. Georges Humbert (1859 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He exerted a great influence and was able, by his discretion and objectivity, to assure respect for his religious convictions during a period of some hostility towards religion in French scientific ... circles. P Costabel, Biography in Dictionary of

  9. Hans Heilbronn (1908 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: There is no possibility for me to continue scientific work in Germany. ... J W S Cassells, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Heron of Alexandria (10 - 75) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The cheirobalistra about catapults is thought to be part of a dictionary of catapults but was almost certainly not written by Heron;. ... A G Drachmann, M S Mahoney, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  11. Richard Hamming (1915 - 1998) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    19 Apr 2024: When I left Bell Labs, I knew that that was the end of my scientific career. ... R W Hamming, Controlling the Digital Computer, The Scientific Monthly 85 (4) (1957), 169-175.