Cusanus
Britishnoun
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As will be seen from this passage, Cusanus had many more ideas than merely the accurate estimation of the pulse frequency when he suggested the use of the water-clock.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph
His chief philosophical doctrine was taken up and developed more than a hundred years later by Giordano Bruno, who calls him the divine Cusanus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Cantor, devotes a score of pages to the advances in mathematics which we owe to Cusanus.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
Randall says that the book was written by "that learned Doctor Cusanus."
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
Edward's Gangraena also identifies Randall the preacher with the translator of "Popish Books written by Priests and Friers," citing as an example "The Vision of God by Cardinall Cusanus," op. cit.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
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