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    Nicole Oresme (French: [nikɔl ɔʁɛm]; 1 January 1325 – 11 July 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher...
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    by John Philoponus, which Galileo was aware of. In the 14th century, Nicole Oresme had derived the time-squared law for uniformly accelerated change, and...
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  • spelling "Nicole" also saw use as a mediaeval French man's name, e.g., Nicole Oresme. Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977), pop and rock singer Nicole Appleton...
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    his elegantly simple proof of the divergence of the harmonic series, Nicole Oresme proved that the series 1 2 + 2 4 + 3 8 + 4 16 + 5 32 + 6 64 + 7 128...
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  • The history of economic thought is the study of the philosophies of the different thinkers and theories in the subjects that later became political economy...
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  • divergent series. Its divergence was proven in the 14th century by Nicole Oresme using a precursor to the Cauchy condensation test for the convergence...
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    illuminator of Nicole Oresme's Le livre du Ciel et du Monde, a translation of and commentary on Aristotle's De caelo produced for Oresme's patron, King...
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    volume or area. The work of Nicole Oresme in the 14th century had either been forgotten by, or was unknown to them. Oresme had posited such things as an...
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    Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno...
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    works of medieval mathematicians and philosophers such as John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Roger Bacon, whose sophistication surprised him. He consequently...
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