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    Nicolas Fatio de Duillier FRS (also spelled Faccio or Facio; 16 February 1664 – 10 May 1753) was a mathematician, natural philosopher, astronomer, inventor...
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  • Fatio is a surname, and may refer to: Francis Philip Fatio, 18th–19th-century Swiss colonist of Florida Jean-Christophe Fatio de Duillier, 17th–18th-century...
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    of Geneva in 1647. Pierre Fatio was a cousin and contemporary of mathematician and inventor Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Fatio enrolled at the University...
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  • gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748. The theory...
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    gravitation; a treatise on final causes; a biographical note on Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. However, some of them were posthumously published by his pupil...
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    "modern". Characters include Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, William of Orange, Louis XIV of France, Oliver Cromwell, Peter...
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    and criticism. He was close to the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. In 1691, Duillier started to write a new version of Newton's Principia...
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  • mechanical explanation, and was developed for the first time by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690, and re-invented, among others, by Georges-Louis Le Sage...
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    watches. Jewel bearings were invented in 1704 for use in watches by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Peter Debaufre, and Jacob Debaufre, who received an English patent...
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    English inventor (d. 1729) February 26 – Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician (d. 1753) March 4 – Juan de Esteyneffer, Moravian German lay Jesuit...
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    bearings, introduced in England in 1702 by the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, also came into use for quality watches during this period. Watches...
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    Baillie, Clutton & Ilbert 1969, p. 280. "Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753)". Famous Watchmakers. Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. 2019. Archived from...
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    of time, the deterioration of his relations with his protégé Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Newton documented the first performed alchemy experiment during...
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    Newton had almost severed connections with one would-be editor, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and another, David Gregory seems not to have met with his approval...
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  • Clockmaker of the city Ulm, longcase clock. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753), Swiss mathematician, Duillier, drilled rubies. Bernardo Facini (1665–1731)...
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  • Other sources state that it was first explained this way by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, in 1684, whom Cassini advised to study the zodiacal light. The...
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    there was no reason to suspect Leibniz's good faith. In 1699, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the zodiacal light...
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    he was able to meet several famous people like John Locke and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Newton was able to form life-long bonds with these two figures...
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  • opera composer and conductor Nicolas Faccio (1664–1753), Swiss mathematician; alternative name for Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Ricardo Faccio (1907–1970)...
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    walls were developed to make better use of sunlight. In 1699, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier even suggested using a tracking mechanism which could pivot to...
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  • took Val de Barre (Nîmes) from royalist Count de Broglie. February: Count de Broglie relieved of his duties and replaced by Field-Marshal de Montrevel...
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    Fellow of the Royal Society, and diplomat for the House of Stuart. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Judge Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor of England Robert Hooke, English...
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    History of gravitational theory (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    gravitation is the result of bodies emitting waves in the aether. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1690) and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1748) proposed a corpuscular...
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    English inventor (d. 1729) February 26 – Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician (d. 1753) March 4 – Juan de Esteyneffer, Moravian German lay Jesuit...
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    of the Académie de Genève from 1679 to 1681. Among Chouet's students were the astronomer and mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, as well as polygraphs...
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  • of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Antoine Favre-Salomon Edmond H. Fischer (nobel prize), describing...
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    higher than the earlier trigonometric measurement of Mont Blanc by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and made the Mont Blanc the highest peak in Europe. Deluc also...
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  • history of elliptic functions, and the re-publication of a paper by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier on the cause of gravitation. Under his supervision many dissertations...
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  • Jean-Christophe Fatio de Duillier (17 November 1656 – 18 October 1720) was a Genevan engineer, politician, and natural philosopher, who became Fellow...
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  • (1660–1718) John Clayton (1657–1725) Joannes Adamus Stampfer (d. 1743) Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753) "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship...
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