Stevin

[stuh-vahyn]

noun

1. Simon 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.

Example Sentences

Brian was positioned at the front of the crowd, standing face-to-face with a Capitol Police officer named Stevin Karlsen, who wore a helmet and a gas mask while trying to protect himself with a four-foot-tall riot shield.

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A rare live-action Moonbug offering, Blippi is a grinning, endlessly enthusiastic fellow played by two actors, one of whom is the character’s creator, Stevin John.

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It stars Stevin John as Blippi and J. Kaitlin Becker as Meekah, and is set in a treehouse that includes a Maker Space, a library, and a DJ booth.

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This world still existed in 1629 when Niccolò Cabeo published his Magnetical Philosophy, which is almost entirely drawn, and indeed much of it taken verbatim, without acknowledgement, from Leonardo Garzoni’s unpublished manuscript; it still existed in 1654, when Pascal completed his Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids: in it he drew heavily on works by Stevin, Benedetti, Galileo, Torricelli, Descartes and Mersenne, but made no mention of any of his predecessors.

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Buffon could, if he wished, look back to the seventeenth century and identify a whole series of laws that had been discovered during the Scientific Revolution: Stevin’s law of hydrostatics, Galileo’s law of fall, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, Snell’s law of refraction, Boyle’s law of gases, Hooke’s law of elasticity, Huygens’ law of the pendulum, Torricelli’s law of flow, Pascal’s law of fluid dynamics, Newton’s laws of motion and law of gravity.

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