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    The Oxford Calculators were a group of 14th-century thinkers, almost all associated with Merton College, Oxford; for this reason they were dubbed "The...
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  • Calculator spelling is an unintended characteristic of the seven-segment display traditionally used by calculators, in which, when read upside-down, the...
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  • Calculator (character), DC Comics villain Oxford Calculators, a group of 14th-century philosophers Calculator (band), an American emo band Richard Swineshead...
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    French philosopher Jean Buridan and the Oxford Calculators (the Merton School) of the Merton College of Oxford rejected the Aristotelian concept of gravity...
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  • This work and others was developed in 14th-century England by the Oxford Calculators such as Thomas Bradwardine, who studied and formulated various laws...
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  • one of the Oxford Calculators William of Heytesbury (1330), one of the Oxford Calculators John Dumbleton (1338), one of the Oxford Calculators Richard Swineshead...
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  • - Ontology - Ontotheology - Open individualism - Organicism Oxford Calculators - Oxford Franciscan school - Paganism - Pakistani philosophy - Pancasila...
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    Mean speed theorem (category Merton College, Oxford)
    of uniform acceleration, was discovered in the 14th century by the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, and was proved by Nicole Oresme. It states that...
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  • was followed up by his pupil Albert of Saxony (1316–1390) and the Oxford Calculators, who performed various experiments which further undermined the Aristotelian...
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    geodesics in this curved spacetime. John Dumbleton of the 14th-century Oxford Calculators, was one of the first to express functional relationships in graphical...
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    (however, these claims are disputed). Other early fellows include the Oxford Calculators, a group of 14th-century thinkers associated with Merton who took...
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    mechanical calculators were comparable in size to small desktop computers and have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the electronic calculator and the...
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  • within time-velocity space. These geometric procedures anticipated the Oxford Calculators, including the mean speed theorem, by 14 centuries. South of Egypt...
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  • notions of continuity of functions and motion were studied by the Oxford Calculators and other scholars. The historical relevance of the fundamental theorem...
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  • 1340-1358 - Jean Buridan develops the theory of impetus 14th century - Oxford Calculators and French collaborators prove the mean speed theorem 14th century...
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    Richard Swineshead (category Fellows of Merton College, Oxford)
    logician, and natural philosopher. He was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow certainly by 1344 and possibly...
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  • developed the theory further. Nicole Oresme, one of Oxford Calculators at Merton College, Oxford, provided the mean speed theorem using geometrical arguments...
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    Thomas Bradwardine (category Alumni of Merton College, Oxford)
    one of these Oxford Calculators, studying mechanics with William Heytesbury, Richard Swineshead, and John Dumbleton. The Oxford Calculators distinguished...
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    Sinclair Oxford was a range of low-cost scientific calculators manufactured and sold by Sinclair Radionics in England from 1975 until 1976. In November...
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    William of Heytesbury (category Fellows of Merton College, Oxford)
    English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow. Heytesbury had become a fellow...
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  • Bochenski, p. 266 Peirce 1896 See Bochenski p. 269 Oxford Companion p. 499 Edith Sylla (1999), "Oxford Calculators", in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy...
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  • ISBN 978-0-618-45504-1. John L. Heilbron (14 February 2003). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Oxford University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-19-974376-6...
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    made, when such scholars as Jean Buridan, Nicole Oresme, and the Oxford Calculators challenged the work of Aristotle. Buridan developed the theory of...
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