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    Frans van Schooten Jr. also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (15 May 1615, Leiden – 29 May 1660, Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known...
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    Van Schooten's theorem, named after the Dutch mathematician Frans van Schooten, describes a property of equilateral triangles. It states: For an equilateral...
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    Joris van Schooten (1587–1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the uncle of the Leiden mathematician Frans van Schooten. According to Houbraken he was...
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    games of chance and the problem of points in Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck, which Frans van Schooten translated and published as De Ratiociniis in...
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    mathematics under the influence of his teacher Frans van Schooten. From 1654 to 1663 he worked under van Schooten. La Géométrie (1637) by René Descartes provided...
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    have received. In 1648, the corpus of mathematical works printed by Frans van Schooten, professor at Leiden University (Elzevirs presses). He was assisted...
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    From 1653 he studied at Leiden University where he interacted with Frans van Schooten, Johannes Hudde, and Christiaan Huygens. In 1658 he and Hudde left...
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    after Descartes' La Géométrie was translated into Latin in 1649 by Frans van Schooten and his students. These commentators introduced several concepts while...
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    Descartes was interviewed by Frans Burman at Egmond-Binnen in 1648. Henricus Regius, Jan Stampioen, Frans van Schooten, Comenius and Gisbertus Voetius...
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    Discrete Analogs of Parabolas" (PDF). Forum Geometricorum. 13: 197–208. Frans van Schooten: Mathematische Oeffeningen, Leyden, 1659, p. 334. Planar Circle Geometries...
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  • botanist and anatomist Marie du Saar (1860–1955), ophthalmologist Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), mathematician Willebrord Snell (1580–1626), astronomer...
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    with the firm of Frans van Schooten. In 1655 Johan de Witt married Wendela Bicker, daughter of Johan Bicker and Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek, who belonged...
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    different meaning in the English literature (see Director circle). Frans van Schooten: Mathematische Oeffeningen, Leyden, 1659, p. 327 E. Hartmann: Lecture...
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    about musical notes, geometrical propositions from François Viète and Frans van Schooten, annotations out of John Wallis's Arithmetic of Infinities, together...
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    Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (b. 1635) May 29 Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615) George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare...
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  • original usage. The vinculum, in its general use, was introduced by Frans van Schooten in 1646 as he edited the works of François Viète (who had himself...
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  • machines and devices. Nicasius le Febure, French chemist (died 1669) Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician who popularizes the analytic geometry of Descartes...
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    1613, Pietro Cataldi (Italian) 1615, Denis Henrion (French) 1617, Frans van Schooten (Dutch) 1637, L. Carduchi (Spanish) 1639, Pierre Hérigone (French)...
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    after Descartes' La Géométrie was translated into Latin in 1649 by Frans van Schooten and his students. These commentators introduced several concepts while...
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    was Blaise Pascal who encourages him to write Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck, which Frans van Schooten translated and published as De Ratiociniis in...
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    "Ellipse", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press Trammel according Frans van Schooten "Why is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽" on YouTube...
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  • Blaeu's son Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672), German-born Dutch physician Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), Dutch mathematician Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (1618-1651)...
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  • f) Patricia Schonstein (born 1952, S Rhodesia/S Africa, f/p/ch) Frans van Schooten (1615–1660, Netherlands, nf) Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860,...
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    Ludolph van Ceulen (German: [fan ˈkɔʏlən], Dutch: [vɑŋˈkøːlə(n)]; 28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim...
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    Huygens's De ratiociniis in aleae ludo, Descartes' La Géométrie and Frans van Schooten's supplements of it. He also studied Isaac Barrow and John Wallis,...
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    Exercitationum Mathematicarum Decas Prima Marin Getaldić Denis Henrion Frans van Schooten Wikisource:Anderson, Alexander (1582-1619?) (DNB00) Chalmers, A. (1812)...
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  • Mercurius van Helmont (1614–1698), Flemish alchemist and writer Franciscus "Frans" van Schooten (1615–1660), Dutch mathematician Franciscus van der Steen...
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  • Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (b. 1635) May 29 Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615) George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare...
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  • Scotland (b. 1494) 1593 – John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559) 1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615) 1691 – Cornelis Tromp...
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  • Schröder publishes two methods for the production of elemental Arsenic. Frans van Schooten publishes the first Latin version of René Descartes' La Géométrie...
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