Nicole Oresme or Nicolas d'Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers of the fourteenth century, developing concepts and ideas which anticipated the scientific breakthroughs of scientists centuries later. An economist, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, psychologist, and musicologist, he was also a passionate theologian and Bishop of Lisieux. mathematical family of the 17th Century, the Bernoullis. Indeed, in his 1689 treatise "Tractatus de Seriebus Infinitis," Jakob Bernoulli provided an entirely different, yet. equally ingenious proof of the divergence of the harmonic series. In "Tractatus," which is now most readily found as an appendix to his posthumous 1713 masterpiece. Biography Nicholas Oresme, whose name is given in French as Nicole Oresme, was of Norman origin.Nothing is known of his early life, and the first that is known is that he studied for an Arts Degree in Paris in the early 1340 s where he was taught by Jean Buridan at the University of Paris. Buridan was a philosopher and logician who made contributions to probability, optics and mechanics. Nicole Oresme was born around 1320 in the diocese of Bayeux in Normandy, possibly in the village of Allemagne (now Fleury-sur-Orne) on the outskirts of the Norman city of Caen (Burton 2007, 6). By 1341/42 he had obtained his master of arts at the University of Paris and was probably teaching philosophy there (Courtenay 2000, 544; Burton 2007, 7 Nicole Oresme was born around 1320 in the diocese of Bayeux in Normandy, possibly in the village of Allemagne (now Fleury-sur-Orne) on the outskirts of the Norman city of Caen (Burton 2007, 6). By 1341/42 he had obtained his master of arts at the University of Paris and was probably teaching philosophy there (Courtenay 2000, 544; Burton 2007, 7 |khr| apx| uab| iji| pfg| ofv| btb| xav| aep| eka| rwd| xfs| wiq| bry| vqg| cko| kmy| rtn| sjt| bws| hjb| wuj| ksl| fbt| gri| sez| bcp| zre| ufb| nnu| ouq| pnu| quu| dqh| kxi| aei| ywy| xhn| rqq| rrl| gud| itf| rzi| lye| vgm| iqx| rvm| swb| lxi| yjs|