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    Jean-Étienne Montucla (5 September 1725 – 18 December 1799) was a French mathematician and historian. Montucla was born at Lyon, France. Career In 1754...
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  • psychiatrist Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715–1786), French naturalist and mineralogist Jean-Étienne Marie (1917–1989), French composer Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725–1799)...
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  • Table of numerals in many variants, 1757, by Jean-Étienne Montucla...
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  • "Calends", Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728), Vol. 1, p. 143 Jacques Ozanam; Jean Etienne Montucla (1814). Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Longman...
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  • gardens. In his Histoire de la Gnomonique ancienne et moderne, Jean-Étienne Montucla sums up gnomonics in these words: Qu’on ait douze plans se coupant...
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  • Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (d. 1763) 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1799) 1735 – Johann Christian...
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    in conflict with Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Giovanni Riccioli. Jean-Étienne Montucla in his monumental Histoire des mathématiques (Paris, 1758), lavishes...
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  • (1651) Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli Jean-Etienne Montucla (1873) History of the Quadrature of the Circle, J. Babin translator...
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  • 1787 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (b. 1704) 1799 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725) 1803 – Johann Gottfried...
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    Zach in a library in Oxford, England in the 1780s, and reported to Jean-Étienne Montucla, who published an account of it. 152 1722 Toshikiyo Kamata 24 1722...
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