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    Simon Stevin (Dutch: [ˈsimɔn steːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various...
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    The ship RV Simon Stevin is used to perform coastal oceanographic research in the Southern Bight of the North Sea and in the eastern part of the English...
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  • are Zhu Zaiyu (also romanized as Chu-Tsaiyu. Chinese: 朱載堉) in 1584 and Simon Stevin in 1585. According to Fritz A. Kuttner, a critic of the theory, it is...
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    Flemish polymath Simon Stevin performed a demonstration for Jan Cornets de Groot, a local politician in the Dutch city of Delft. Stevin dropped two lead...
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    mathematician and physicist Simon Stevin and Jan Cornets de Groot (the father of Hugo de Groot). The experiment is described in Stevin's 1586 book De Beghinselen...
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    Varro (1584), Simon Stevin (1586), and Galileo Galilei (1592). Although it was not the first, the derivation of Flemish engineer Simon Stevin is the most...
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    one-dimensional steady flow. In 1586, the Flemish engineer and mathematician Simon Stevin published De Beghinselen des Waterwichts (Principles on the Weight of...
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  • Simon Stevin was a Dutch language academic journal in pure and applied mathematics, or Wiskunde as the field is known in Dutch. Published in Ghent, edited...
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    HSM Oldenbarneveldt - Simon Stevin HSM 190 - 193...
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    by Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment: 19–21  but earlier by Simon Stevin who dropped lead balls of different masses off the Delft churchtower...
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    In 1586, scientists Simon Stevin and Jan Cornets de Groot conducted an early scientific experiment on the effects of gravity. The experiment, which established...
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    Weighing") is a book about statics written by the Flemish physicist Simon Stevin in Dutch. It was published in 1586 in a single volume with De Weeghdaet...
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    Bhaskara's formula. Irving 2013, p. 42. Struik, D. J.; Stevin, Simon (1958), The Principal Works of Simon Stevin, Mathematics (PDF), vol. II–B, C. V. Swets & Zeitlinger...
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    would otherwise eventually reach a uniform terminal velocity. In 1586, Simon Stevin (commonly known as Stevinus) and Jan Cornets de Groot dropped lead balls...
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    player Simon Stevin (1548–1620), Netherlandish mathematician, physicist and engineer Simon Tahamata (born 1956), Dutch and Belgian footballer Simon Terry...
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  • De Thiende, published in 1585 in the Dutch language by Simon Stevin, is remembered for extending positional notation to the use of decimals to represent...
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    in all the connected vessels. This was discovered by Simon Stevin as a consequence of Stevin's Law. It occurs because gravity and pressure are constant...
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    Ages onwards, to drain land for agricultural or building purposes. Simon Stevin's work in the waterstaet involved improvements to the sluices and spillways...
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  • p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-31536-4. Struik, D. J.; Stevin, Simon (1958), The Principal Works of Simon Stevin, Mathematics (PDF), vol. II–B, C. V. Swets & Zeitlinger...
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  • Bruijn, N. G. (1951). "Circuits and trees in oriented linear graphs". Simon Stevin. 28: 203–217. Euler, L. (1736), "Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs...
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    anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens and mathematician Simon Stevin among the most influential scientists. Chemist Ernest Solvay and engineer...
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  • currency systems where units are related by factors of ten was suggested by Simon Stevin who in 1585 first advocated the use of decimal numbers for everyday purposes...
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  • different from [the] three aforesaid [powers or magnitudes]. [...]" in 1586, Simon Stevin uses the Dutch term staltwicht ("parked weight") for momentum in De Beghinselen...
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    Lodewijk, he studied in Heidelberg and later in Leiden where he met Simon Stevin. The States of Holland and Zeeland paid for his studies, as their father...
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    1570s; other sources attribute the invention to the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin, who calculated and published decimal tables in the 1580s. William Webster...
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  • relationship to musical tuning in 1580 (drafted, rewritten 1610) by Simon Stevin. In 1581 Italian musician Vincenzo Galilei may be the first European...
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    reasoned that it was the older language. His work influenced that of Simon Stevin (1548–1620), who espoused similar ideas in "Uytspraeck van de weerdicheyt...
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    Stevinus is mapped as part of the Copernican System. It is named for Simon Stevin, a 16th-century Belgian mathematician and engineer. LRO image Oblique...
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    conducted experiments in physics and explored natural philosophy. Along with Simon Stevin he experimented on the time taken for lead of different weights to fall...
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    was invented in the summer of the year 1600 by the Flemish scientist Simon Stevin in Flanders as a commission for Prince Maurice of Orange. It was used...
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