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    Oronce Fine (or Finé; Latin: Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus; Italian: Oronzio Fineo; 20 December 1494 – 8 August 1555) was a French mathematician, cartographer...
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    Schöner/Finé cosmography. Armand Rainaud noted in 1893 that this appellation, "without doubt comes from the globes of Schoener and the maps of Oronce Fine"....
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    a globe was probably on Johannes Schöner's lost 1523 globe on which Oronce Fine is thought to have based his 1531 double cordiform (heart-shaped) map...
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  • Hapgood also examined a 1531 map by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé (aka Oronteus Finaeus). In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, he reproduces...
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    Latinized for Oronce Finé, a French mathematician and cartographer who died in 1555. Because the publication of Fool's Cap was so long after Finé's death, the...
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    cent. The map of the world by the French mathematician and cosmographer Oronce Fine published in 1531 shows a large promontory attached to the continent...
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    promontory on Oronce Fine's world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo's Greater Java with Fine's Regio Patalis...
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  • American mathematician Oronce Finé (1494–1555), French mathematician and cartographer Ralph Adam Fine (1941–2014), American judge Reuben Fine (1914–1993), American...
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    proved to be his. He painted a portrait of the mathematician Oronce Finé in 1530, when Fine was thirty-six years old, but the portrait is now known only...
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    Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet André Chénier Thomas Dempster Oronce Finé William Fowler Jean de Gerson Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance...
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