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Also Known As Nicole D’Oresme • Nicola Oresme
Born c.1320 • France
Died July 11, 1382 • Lisieux • France
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Pierre-Daniel Huet
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Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop
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Claude Perrault
French physician and architect
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
French philosopher, statesman, and journalist
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Jacques Delille
French writer
André Dacier
French scholar and translator
Arthur F. Burns
American economist
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
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William of Moerbeke
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George Of Trebizond
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Sir Thomas Gresham
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Abraham bar Hiyya
Spanish-Jewish philosopher and scientist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
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Marsilio Ficino
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