thermometer. Leurechon was born in Bar-le-Duc where his father, also named Jean Leurechon, was a physician to the Duke of Lorraine. He sent Leurechon to be educated...
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pigeonhole principle appears as early as 1624 in a book attributed to Jean Leurechon, it is commonly called Dirichlet's box principle or Dirichlet's drawer...
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ear trumpet was given by the French Jesuit priest and mathematician Jean Leurechon in his work Recreations mathématiques (1634). Polymath Athanasius Kircher...
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(in its French form) first appeared in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees. 1629 — Joseph Solomon...
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French form) first appeared in 1624 in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees. The word comes from the...
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William Alabaster – Ecce sponsus venit "Henry van Etten" (pseudonym for Jean Leurechon) – Mathematical Recreations Fulke Greville – Certain Learned and Elegant...
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Récréations Mathématiques (1624) by Hendrik van Etten, a pseudonym of Jean Leurechon. The translation itself is no longer attributed to Oughtred, but (probably)...
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(1616–1704, England, Po) John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815, England, M/Nh) Jean Leurechon (1591–1670, France, R/Ma) Eliphas Levi (1810–1875, France); Dogme et...
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scholar and philosopher Hendrik van Etten (1591–1670), Pseudonym of Jean Leurechon, French mathematician Hendrik C. Ferreira (born 1950s), South African...
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was the first English edition of Mathematical Recreations (1633), by Jean Leurechon (alias "Hendrik van Etten") — translated by Francis Malthus, and printed...
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