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

“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

The scintillating work of Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme on the possibility of empty space, essential to the atomistic view of nature, and the prescient mathematical physics of the Merton School at Oxford, are touched upon only in passing.

From New York Times

A new confidence in scientific thought began to blossom, as precocious scholars like Nicole Oresme and Jean Buridan postulated the rotation of the earth and the law of inertia, more than a century before Copernicus and Isaac Newton.

From Salon

Their result was expressed in graphical terms around the same time by the French mathematician, philosopher and bishop Nicholas Oresme.

From Nature

As Charles issued from the chambers of his astrologers the discourses of Oresme must have made him a little uncomfortable, especially when Oresme records the misfortunes of astrologising captains, such as Alphonso king of Castille, of whom, says he, I have heard nothing notable except that he cast horoscopes, was unfortunate in war, and neglected116 his kingdom; or such again as James the king of Majorca, a passionate astrologer, who on the dictation of the stars made a sortie against Peter of Aragon, and never came back again.

From Project Gutenberg