Oresme
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He commissions a learned councillor, Nicolas Oresme, to explain the theory of stable currency in simple language.
From Time Magazine Archive
And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Oresme took the idea of a rotating earth seriously, and thus prefigures Copernicus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
However, when Oresme tried to sum the terms in the sequence, he realized that the sums got larger and larger and larger.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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 "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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