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    Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni dʒiˈrɔːlamo sakˈkɛːri]; 5 September 1667 – 25 October 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest...
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    A Saccheri quadrilateral is a quadrilateral with two equal sides perpendicular to the base. It is named after Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, who used it extensively...
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  • 1730 – James Stirling publishes The Differential Method. 1733 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if Euclid's fifth postulate...
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    Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Witelo, Gersonides, Alfonso, and later Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, John Wallis, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Legendre. Their attempts...
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    algebraic curve Giovanni Ceva (1647–1734) – Euclidean geometry Johann Jacob Heber (1666–1727) – surveyor and geometer Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri (1667–1733)...
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  • refracting lens is invented by English barrister Chester Moore Hall. Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if the parallel postulate...
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  • connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers, 1733 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if Euclid's fifth postulate...
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    influences on logic and epistemology, and of the non-Euclidean geometry of Gerolamo Saccheri. He was particularly interested in the ways in which what might be...
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    the second oldest known printed representation of the New World Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667–1733) – Jesuit mathematician and geometer who was perhaps...
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  • oceanography Giovanni Ceva (1647–1734), mathematician, widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667–1733)...
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    playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), Gerolamo Cardano, mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri (1667–1733), Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta the inventor...
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  • earlier than Borlaug laid the foundations for the Green Revolution Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667–1733), philosopher and mathematician who did early work...
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    the very end of the 17th century, the Italian Giovanni G. Saccheri resumed the concept of Khayyam–Saccheri quadrilateral in order to prove the fifth postulate...
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    university stagnated, but there were still prominent scholars such as Gerolamo Saccheri who was still involved with the university. The rebirth of the university...
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