Oresme

/ ɔrɛm /

noun

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

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

But no medieval author compared the universe to anything so coarse as a mill; and Oresme’s comparison was very carefully limited: he was comparing the circular movement of the heavens to the turning wheels of a clock, not the whole universe to a clock; he did not think of clocks as machines and he does not use the clock metaphor to prove the existence of God.

From Literature

Oresme had no intention of expounding a mechanical philosophy, for he lived in a world of Platonic and Aristotelian forms; indeed, he ended up accepting the conventional view that the heavenly spheres were governed by spiritual intelligences.

From Literature

If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme.

From Literature