Geometrician

  • 61Francesca, Piero della — (c. 1406 1492)    Italian painter born in Borgo San Sepolcro in the Tuscan region to a family of leather merchants. Piero della Francesca was not only an artist but also a mathematician, geometrician, and theorist. He authored two treatises, one… …

    Dictionary of Renaissance art

  • 62Aristotle the philosopher of nature — David Furley 1 THE TREATISES ON NATURE The subject matter of the present chapter is what Aristotle has to say about the natural world the subject that in classical Greek is most accurately rendered as ta physika. But of course this includes many… …

    History of philosophy

  • 63ARCHY`TAS OF TARENTUM —    famous as a statesman, a soldier, a geometrician, a philosopher, and a man; a Pythagorean in philosophy, and influential in that capacity over the minds of Plato, his contemporary, and Aristotle; was drowned in the Adriatic Sea, 4th century… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 64HUYGENS, CHRISTIAN —    a Dutch geometrician, physicist, and astronomer, born at The Hague; published the first scientific work on the calculation of probabilities, improved the telescope, broached the undulatory theory of light, discovered the fourth satellite of… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 65geometru — GEOMÉTRU, Ă, geometri, e, s.m. şi f. 1. Specialist în geometrie. 2. Topograf. [pr.: ge o ] – Din fr. géomètre, lat. geometra. Trimis de gall, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  GEOMÉTRU s. topograf. Trimis de siveco, 05.08.2004. Sursa: Sinonime  …

    Dicționar Român

  • 66geometer — ge·om·e·ter || dʒɪ É‘mɪtÉ™(r) / É’m n. geometrician, one who specializes in geometry, mathematician …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 67geometers — ge·om·e·ter || dʒɪ É‘mɪtÉ™(r) / É’m n. geometrician, one who specializes in geometry, mathematician …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 68geometry — [dʒɪ ɒmɪtri] noun (plural geometries) 1》 the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues. 2》 the shape and relative arrangement of the parts of something.… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 69geometer — n. Geometrician …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 70computer — n 1. adding machine, calculator, calculating machine; analog computer, digital computer, data processor. 2. mathematician, arithmetician, geometrician, geometer, algebraist; abacist, calculator, estimator …

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