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* '''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 ...

...Jobst Bürgi... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...values..; the fundamental principles were the same. Instead of proceeding from a number a little ''less'' than one (...Napier used <math>1 - 10^{-7}</math ...

...Clifford]], "On the Space-Theory of Matter," Abstract (read Feb 21, 1870) from the ''Cambridge Philosophical Society's Proceedings'' II (1876) pp. 157-158 ...this property of being curved or distorted is continually being passed on from one portion of space to another after the manner of a wave.<br />(3) That t ...

...obst Bürgi]]... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...s invented the sine and the tangent. The Greeks had measured an angle only from the [[w:Chord (geometry)|chord]] of the arc it subtended: the sine was half ...