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* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteent ...e past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilari ...

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...ronomer|astronomer]] and served as [[w:Astronomer Royal|Astronomer Royal]] from 1742, succeeding [[Edmond Halley]]. He is best known for two fundamental di ** ''A Letter from the Reverend Mr.'' James Bradley ''Savilian Proffesor of Astronomy at'' Oxf ...

* The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10^-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10<sup>28</ ...managed, however, only because of the large amount of help I have received from my wife, children, colleagues and students. I find that people in general a ...

...one of the destroyers of that great seate, and '''a purger of the world''' from Antichristianisme, '''who purgeth not his owne countrie? Shall he purge his ...bursted I oute in continuall reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thence forth I determined with myself by the assistance of God's spirit to ...

* '''Madam, I have come from a country where [[people]] are hanged if they [[talk]].''' ...russia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in ''Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860'' (19 ...

...semanticscholar.org/c869/e99621b446230976eb942ba39d8acc289e0f.pdf}} (quote from p. B1049) ** This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks: ...

...tion from {{cite book|last=Saccheri|first=Gerolamo|title=Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. ...Nikolai Lobachevsky|Lobatchewski]] and [[w:János Bolyai|Bolyai]]. ...<br />From the difference in geometric premises important variations followed. Thus, w ...

'''[[w:Infinity|Infinity]]''' (symbolzed: ∞) is a term derived from the Latin ''infinitas'' or "unboundedness" denoting concepts involving limi ...|Hobbes]] was fighting [[John Wallis|Wallis]] over the indivisible line in England, the [[w:Society of Jesus|Society of Jesus]] was leading its own campaign a ...