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A C Aitken the poet - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Aitken_poet/7 Mar 2023: Changes: now night begins to fall,. And I see the last long road of all,. ... The road to dusty death. The second poem by Aitken which we give concerns Jason in the ship the Argo, who went to fetch the Golden Fleece.
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Alcuin (735 - 804) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Alcuin/11 Jul 2023: He wrote a long poem describing the men associated with York's history before he left for the continent. ... The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon atP D Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific
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Robert A Rankin - Scotsman obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Rankin_Scotsman/7 Mar 2023: Robert became a proper Gaelic scholar, not just an enthusiast. His scholarship is evident in a definitive paper on the long poem Oran na comhachag, which was published in the Transactions ... He followed this up by a later paper on the place-names
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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier PDF (893k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/fatio.pdf12 Feb 2024: After a long stay in the Netherlands, he returned to England in 1717 and settled near Worcester for the remaining 36 years of his life. ... He meditated on the biblical prophecies, wrote a long poem on his theory of the cause of gravity (in the style of
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William Herschel music - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Herschel_William_music/7 Mar 2023: In his honour, Burney wrote a long didactic poem entitled Poetical History of Astronomy, of which only a few lines have survived.
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Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Khayyam/30 Dec 2023: He wrote in his poem the Rubaiyat :-. Indeed, the Idols I have loved so long.