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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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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12 equal temperament (section Simon Stevin)
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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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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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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History of gravitational theory (section Simon Stevin)
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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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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HSM Oldenbarneveldt - Simon Stevin HSM 190 - 193...
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History of fluid mechanics (section Simon Stevin)
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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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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St Andrews 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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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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player Simon Stevin (1548–1620), Netherlandish mathematician, physicist and engineer Simon Tahamata (born 1956), Dutch and Belgian footballer Simon Terry...
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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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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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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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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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anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens and mathematician Simon Stevin among the most influential scientists. Chemist Ernest Solvay and engineer...
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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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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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Contemporaneously, Huygens, who played the harpsichord, took an interest in Simon Stevin's theories on music; however, he showed very little concern to publish...
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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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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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by Amerigo Vespucci and subsequently by Galileo Galilei, as well as Simon Stevin, but they did not realize what they contributed. Though Galileo determined...
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sphaericis libri (in Latin). Bern: Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna. 1561. Simon Stevin, in his book describing decimal representation of fractions (De Thiende)...
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than one, a fraction, is often credited to Simon Stevin through his textbook De Thiende; but both Stevin and E. J. Dijksterhuis indicate that Regiomontanus...
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that the influence was caused by lunar rays heating the ocean's floor. Simon Stevin in his 1608 De spiegheling der Ebbenvloet (The Theory of Ebb and Flood)...
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introduction to the theory of numbers, Oxford 1938. Simon Stevin. l'Arithmétique de Simon Stevin de Bruges, annotated by Albert Girard, Leyde 1625, p...
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