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Nicole Oresme | |
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 Portrait of Nicole Oresme: Miniature from Oresme's Traité de l'espère, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, fonds français 565, fol. 1r. | |
| Born | 1 January 1325 Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, France |
| Died | 11 July 1382 (aged 57)[2] |
| Alma mater | College of Navarre (University of Paris) |
| Era | Medieval philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Nominalism[1] |
| Institutions | College of Navarre (University of Paris) |
Main interests | Natural philosophy, astronomy, theology, mathematics |
Notable ideas | Rectangular co-ordinates, first proof of the divergence of the harmonic series, mean speed theorem |
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Nicole Oresme (French: [nikɔl ɔʁɛm];[6] 1 January 1325 – 11 July 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology, astronomy, philosophy, and theology; was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and one of the most original thinkers of 14th-century Europe.[7]
- ^ Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World, MIT Press, 1987, p. 158.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
adventwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Marshall Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages, Madison. 1959, p. 522.
- ^ Marshall Clagett (ed.), Critical Problems in the History of Science, University of Wisconsin Press, 1969, p. 95: "[W]hen one asks more specifically what, for example, Galileo or Descartes actually knew and what use they made of the dynamics of impetus or of fourteenth-century Oxford kinematics or of Oresme's graphical methods, the evidence becomes difficult and unsatisfactory."
- ^ Dan Burton (ed.), De Visione Stellarum, BRILL, 2007, p. 19 n. 8.
- ^ Léon Warnant (1987). Dictionnaire de la prononciation française dans sa norme actuelle (in French) (3rd ed.). Gembloux: J. Duculot, S. A. ISBN 978-2-8011-0581-8.
- ^ Wallace, William A. (1981). Prelude to Galileo: essays on medieval and sixteenth-century sources of Galileo's thought. Springer Science & Business. ISBN 978-9027712158.