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    187, and in Oldenburg to Leibnitz 18 December 1670 D. T. Whiteside Nicolaus Mercator at Encyclopedia.com O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (September 2001)...
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    of infinitesimals was originally introduced around 1670 by either Nicolaus Mercator or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Archimedes used what eventually came...
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    August 2018. Mercator, Nicolaus (1664). Nicolai Mercatoris Hypothesis astronomica nova, et consensus eius cum observationibus [Nicolaus Mercator's new astronomical...
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    as math discipline. Music: A Mathematical Offering by Dave Benson. Nicolaus Mercator use of Ratio Theory in Music at Convergence The Glass Bead Game Hermann...
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    The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and...
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  • log⁡(1+x){\displaystyle \log(1+x)}] , that had become republished due to Nicolaus Mercator, or through the encouragement of Isaac Barrow in 1669, to ascertain...
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    sinistram" (to the left) rather than "ad dextram", as does a letter from Nicolaus Mercator to Samuel Hartlib, quoting directly from Horrocks's own writing. Hevelius...
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  • 727 to 49 MR1193164 2008: David Gregory at Encyclopedia.com 2008: Nicolaus Mercator at Encyclopedia.com 2014: "And John Napier created logarithms", Journal...
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    Vasco da Gama Prince Henry Willem Janszoon Ferdinand Magellan Gerardus Mercator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco Pizarro Marco Polo Juan Ponce de León Abel...
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    earth. During his life, Mercator published five volumes of his atlas, the last one being published by his son Rumold. After Mercator's death, the Amsterdam...
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