Oresme

My answer was the Black Death chopped population way down so that not until Galileo's generation was there as many Europeans as in Oresme's time and, if brilliant scientific minds are a constant proportion of the whole, never until then was there a "critical mass" of scientific thinkers.

March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

On earth, his memorials are few, but it is fitting that on a journey to the moon one of the features you’ll find is a crater named in his honor, the lunar feature called Oresme.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

On earth, his memorials are few, but it is fitting that on a journey to the moon one of the features you’ll find is a crater named in his honor, the lunar feature called Oresme.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

On earth, his memorials are few, but it is fitting that on a journey to the moon one of the features you’ll find is a crater named in his honor, the lunar feature called Oresme.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Nor did any thing of importance occur in any other branches of science in the two centuries between Oresme and Copernicus.

March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

He points out that if the reader did not know the chronology, he would think Galileo and Descartes had been students of Nicholas Oresme, although 250 years separated them.

March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

It seemed like Buridan (and later Oresme and Aquinas) were arguing on both sides of the Question!

January 9th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Given the scientific and mathematical works of Descartes and Galileo, but no chronological information, one might suppose the authors were students of Oresme.

March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

The next (and, as it proved, final), steps taken in this direction were the accomplishments of the last and greatest of the medieval scientists, Nicole Oresme.

March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

(Though I "adduced" no sophistries or misdirections whatsoever and, Linda, you're not following the reasoning herein, I merely invoked Oresme as an earlier, counter example, not to slight or detract from Galileo's empirical data any more than I'd wish to slight or detract from Tycho Brahe's own methodology and system, relevant to that specific period - but all that begins to get into more arcane subject matter, as noted.)

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009