Oresme, Nicole (1320-82)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3906. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Allemagne, France, became dean of Rouen and chaplain to King Charles V. He invented coordinate geometry before DESCARTES, finding the logical equivalence between a function and a graph. He taught the motion of the Earth, 200 years before COPERNICUS. He argued that there were objections to the `proofs' that the Earth was stationary. These were that (i) the Sun and the stars are observed to...

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