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    Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni dʒiˈrɔːlamo sakˈkɛːri]; 5 September 1667 – 25 October 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest...
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  • Khayyám (12th century), Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (13th century), and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (18th century). The theorems of Ibn al-Haytham, Khayyam and al-Tusi...
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    Unlike many commentators on Euclid before and after him (including Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri), Khayyám was not trying to prove the parallel postulate as such...
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  •  1230 – c. 1314), Gersonides (1288–1344), Alfonso, John Wallis, and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, that by the 19th century led to the discovery of hyperbolic geometry...
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  • Euclid. The theorem is named after Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri and Adrien-Marie Legendre. It appeared in Saccheri's 1733 book Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus...
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  • politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1623) 1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) 1757...
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  • Riccati Matteo Ricci Michelangelo Ricci Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri Antonio Schinella Conti Evangelista Torricelli Vincenzo Viviani Giovanni Battista Zupi...
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  • Ian Rumfitt (UK, 20th century) Bertrand Russell (UK, 1872–1970) Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italy, 1667–1733) Raghunatha Siromani (India, c. 1477–1547) Gerald...
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  • (1288–1344) Gilbert of Poitiers Gildas, (6th c) Giles of Rome Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri Girolamo Savonarola Gonsalvo of Spain Godfrey of Fontaines Goscelin...
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  • oceanography Giovanni Ceva (1647–1734), mathematician, widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667–1733)...
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