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    Henry Oldenburg (also Henry Oldenbourg) FRS (c. 1618 as Heinrich Oldenburg – 5 September 1677) was a German theologian, diplomat, and natural philosopher...
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    German-English scientist Henry Oldenburg (c. 1618–1677) made experimental connections between alkahest and this liquid. Helmont, Oldenburg, and Goddard raised...
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    used as a teaching tool to help students improve writing assignments. Henry Oldenburg (1619–1677) was a German-born British philosopher who is seen as the...
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  • Oldenburg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), Swedish-American sculptor Henry Oldenburg (c. 1619–1677)...
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    of the Royal Society, de Graaf wrote to the editor of the journal, Henry Oldenburg, with a ringing endorsement of Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes which...
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    difficult to be rid of. The term was also used during the 17th century by Henry Oldenburg, the first Secretary of the Royal Society and founding editor of Philosophical...
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    and Melchisédech Thévenot at the time and has some grounding in that Henry Oldenburg, the society's first secretary, had attended the Montmor Academy meeting...
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  • Egilmar I (c. 1060–1112) was the first Count of Oldenburg and thus founder of the House of Oldenburg. He reigned from c. 1091 to 1108. Count Egilmar I...
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  • Werl-Rietberg, daughter of Henry, Count of Rietberg, and had: Christian I, Count of Oldenburg Eilika of Oldenburg (ca. 1120 -) married Henry I, Count of Tecklenburg...
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    Oldenburg in Holstein (German: [ˈɔldn̩bʊʁk ʔɪn ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ) is a German town at the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea. The nearest city is Lübeck....
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    mathematician Johannes Hudde, and Secretary of the British Royal Society Henry Oldenburg. Huygens and others notably praised the quality of Spinoza's lenses...
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    in the form of a Newton polygon, in a letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg in 1676. The term "convex hull" itself appears as early as the work...
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    Augustus II (16 November 1852 in Oldenburg – 24 February 1931 in Rastede) was the last ruling Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He married Princess Elisabeth Anna...
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    French scientist, or to the secretary of the Royal Society of London, Henry Oldenburg for English, had practically the status of a published article. The...
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    the Royal Society in the preceding year, and in 1677 he succeeded Henry Oldenburg as secretary of the society. He edited the Philosophical Transactions...
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    refurbishment in Victorian times. Among others, the German-born scientist Henry Oldenburg was buried in the churchyard in 1677. Hall Place, a former stately...
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  • Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume VIII: 1671-1672, edited by A. Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg. Volume X: June...
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  • John I, Count of Oldenburg (c. 1210 – c. 1270) was a ruling Count of Oldenburg from 1233 until his death. His father, Christian II, had ruled jointly...
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    first secretary, Henry Oldenburg, four-and-a-half years after the society was founded. The full title of the journal, as given by Oldenburg, was "Philosophical...
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    Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring...
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    moved in circles in the Netherlands which included Petrus Serrarius, Henry Oldenburg and was even directly influenced by La Peyrère. With the rise of the...
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    Brouncker and Christopher Wren in London, in 1661. What Spinoza wrote to Henry Oldenburg about them, in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, was guarded...
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    part [...]. The same year, Isaac Newton received Huygens work via Henry Oldenburg and replied "I pray you return [Mr. Huygens] my humble thanks [...]...
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    or book reviews. The purpose of an academic journal, according to Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)...
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    debated the published record of Hevelius, a controversy mediated by Henry Oldenburg. Huygens passed to Hevelius a manuscript of Jeremiah Horrocks on the...
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    Theoderic of Oldenburg (c. 1398 – 14 February 1440) was a feudal lord in Northern Germany, holding the counties of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. He was called...
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    been called the "prophet" and "prince" of pantheism, in a letter to Henry Oldenburg Spinoza states that: "as to the view of certain people that I identify...
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  • real b > 1, c, d In 1675, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in a letter to Henry Oldenburg, suggests the symbol ∫ to mark the sum of differentials (Latin: calculus...
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    save the King. He was imprisoned from 1660 until his death in 1666. Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary to the Royal Society, was imprisoned for one month...
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    (German: Paul Friedrich August von Oldenburg) (13 July 1783 – 27 February 1853) was the reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg from 1829 to 1853. Augustus was...
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