Oresme

British  

/ ɔrɛm /

noun

1. Nicole d' (nikɔl). ?1320–82, French economist, mathematician, and cleric: bishop of Lisieux (1378–82)

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Example Sentences

However, when Oresme tried to sum the terms in the sequence, he realized that the sums got larger and larger and larger.

From Literature

“The two of them are still there,” Mario Gonzalez, 65, said Wednesday morning as he dropped off a bouquet of flowers for his longtime friend Oresme Gil Guerra, who he grew up with in Cuba, and his wife, Betty Guerra.

From Los Angeles Times

Oresme and Copernicus had adopted the principle of the relativity of movement when considering two bodies, the sun and the earth—the movement of the sun that we perceive can equally be caused by the sun moving or the Earth turning—but they had not extended the argument to the more complicated circumstances considered by Bruno.

From Literature

Oresme, exceptionally, held that the distance from Africa to India going west was probably less than the distance going east, so he evidently held that there were areas of dry land across more than 180 degrees of the joint sphere of earth and water near the equator, and thus that there were, as a limit case, true antipodes there; but he maintained there could be be no antipodes for higher latitudes as at least half the sphere of the earth must be covered in water.

From Literature

As it happens, Oresme’s text was never published, and cannot have circulated widely because it was written in French.

From Literature