John of Saxony, an astronomer.
1400 Bianchini, an Italian astronomer. Moschopulus, a modern Greek arith metician.
Purbach, an astronomer. Regiomontanus, or Muller, an astrono e mer of Vienna.
Cardinal Cusa, an astronomer.
Henry, son of John, king of Portugal, the inventor of charts.
Ulutg Beg, a Persian astronomer.
Lucas de Burgo, or Paccioli, a German algebraist.
Bernard, an Italian astronomer. Dominic Novara, an Italian astronomer.
1600 Copernicus, a German astronomer, and the reviver of the solar system.
Peter Apian, or Appian, a German astronomer.
Card n, an Italian algebraist. Cotnmandine, an Italian commentator on Euclid and other ancient mathe maticians.
Ferrous, an Italian.mathematician. Maurolycns, an Italian mathematician. Nonius, a Portuguese mathematician. Sturmius, a German arithmetician. Tartaglia, an Italian algebraist.
Vieta, a French algebraist.
Ferrari, an Italian algebraist.
Stevinus, a Flemish mathematician. Mercator, a German geographer,, Ramus, a French mathematician. Recorde, an English algebraist. Stifelius, a German algebraist.
Ubaldi Guido, an Italian mathematician. Tycho Brahe, aDanish astronomer. Lord Bacon, an English philosopher. Galileo, an Italian philosopher. Bombelli, an Italian algebraist.
Castelli, an Italian mathematician. Clark's, a German geometrician. Digges, an English philosopher.
1600 Briggs, an English arithmetician, the inventor of logarithms.
Des Cartes, a French geometrician and algebraist, discovered the equation of curve lines.
Kepler, a German astronomer, explain ed the laws of celestial motion. Napier, a Scotch arithmetician, impro.
ved the system of logarithms. Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and discoverer of the barometer.
Bayer, a German astronomer. Gassendi, a French astronomer. Longomontawas, a Danish mathema tician.
Harriot, an English algebraist.
Horror, an English astronomer. Kircher, a German philosopher. Oughtred, an English geometrician and aridunetician.
Porta Baptista, the inventor of the camera ohscura.
Cavalerius, a Milanese algebraist. Brouncker, an Irish mathematician. Fermat, a French arithmetician, wrote on the theory of numbers.
Pascal, a French philosopher, intro.
duced the doctrine of chances.
Wallis, an English mathematician, first treated on the arithmetic of infinite quantities.
1600 Bulialdne, a French astronomer.
a French geometrician. Girard, a French algebraist.
J. and D. Gregory, a Scotch family of mathematicians, the first of whom invented a telescope, &c. the second edited Euclid.
Hevelius, a Prussian astronomer. Horrebow, a Danish astronomer.
Mersenne, a French geometrician. Riceiolo, an Italian astronomer, geome trician, and chronologist.
Roberval, a French geometrician. Tacquet, a French mathematician. Seth Ward, an English geometrician and arithmetician.
John de Witt, a Dutch mathematician. James Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician. Barrow, an English mathematician. Hooke, an English philosopher, made many discoveries in mechanics. Huygens, a geometrician, diallist, and horologist, discovered the evoluto of curves.
Leibnitz, a German geometrician and arithmetician, wrote on the differen tial calculus.
L'Hopital, a French mathematician. Flam.stead, an English astronomer. Oldenburgh, an English mathematician and astronomer.
Boyle, an English philosopher.
Ozanam, a French mathematician. Pell, an English algebraist.
Schooten, a Butch mathematician, Wren, an English architect.
1700 Newton, author of a new system of philosophy.
John Bernouilli, a Swiss mathematician. Bradley, an English astronomer, disco vered the aberration of the stars. Cotes, an English geometrician.
Taylor, an English arithmetician and optician.
Cassini, D. and J., French astronomers. Gravesande, a Dutch mathematician. Keill, a Scotch astronomer.
La Hire, a French geometrician and astronomer.
Sanderson, an English mathematician.
Saurin, a French mathematician. Wolfius, a German mathematician.
Clairant, a French mathematician. Maclaurin, a Scotch algebraist.
De Moivre, a French arithmetician. Simpson, an English mathematician. Bellidor, a French engineer.
Bernouil]i, N. and D., Swiss philoso phers.
La Caille, a French astronomer. Collins, an English mathematician. Dollond, an optician.
Maupertius, a French astronomer and geometrician.
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1700 Meyer, a German astronomer, and author of some tables.
Robins, an English mathematician and engineer.
Simon, a Scotch geometrician, transla tor and editor of Euclid's Elements. D'Alembert, a French mathematician. Euler, a German -geometrician and al gcbraist.
Landen, an English algebraist, author of the Residual Analysis.
Lalande, a French astronomer. Maskelyne, an English astronomer. Waring, an English arithmetician. Bailly, the French historian of astro nomy.
Berkeley, an English philosopher. Boscovitch, an Italian mathematician and philosopher.
Emerson, an English arithmetician and algebraist.
Montncla, a French mathematician, and the historian of mathematics.
Horsley, an English mathematician. MATINS. The first part of the daily ser• vice, particularly in the Romish church.