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    Roger Joseph Boscovich SJ (Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković, pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ]; Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; Latin: Rogerius...
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    designated Rimae Boscovich that extends for a diameter of 40 kilometres. The crater is named after Croatian physicist Roger Joseph Boscovich. By convention...
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    Indian cricketer Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian-Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, and Jesuit Roger Boylan, American...
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    a super-powerful calculating intelligence was also proposed by Roger Joseph Boscovich in his 1758 Theoria philosophiae naturalis. According to chemical...
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    Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria...
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  • circumstances to the averaging of groups of similar equations. Roger Joseph Boscovich in 1755 based in his work on the shape of the earth proposed in...
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    geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has...
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    The earliest recommendation of the median dates to 1757, when Roger Joseph Boscovich developed a regression method based on the L1 norm and therefore...
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    replenishment due to the high rate at which its gases are lost into space. Roger Joseph Boscovich was the first modern astronomer to argue for the lack of atmosphere...
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  • errors have a Laplace distribution. It was introduced in 1757 by Roger Joseph Boscovich. Suppose that the data set consists of the points (xi, yi) with...
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  • included in Illyricum sacrum. He is best known as the father of Roger Joseph Boscovich (Ruđer Bošković). Franjo Rački wrote, based on a manuscript from...
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    regression analysis, as a measure of goodness of fit, in 1757 by Roger Joseph Boscovich. The interpretation of it as a distance between points in a geometric...
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  • more fundamental even than being. Another important influence was Roger Joseph Boscovich, whom Nietzsche discovered and learned about through his reading...
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    Lambert 1728–1777 (France) Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711–1787 (Venetian Republic) Pierre Méchain 1744–1804 (France) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749–1822 (France)...
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    constructed by Giovanni Angelo Cesaris and Francesco Reggio, with Roger Joseph Boscovich acting as a consultant. Following the incorporation of Milan into...
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    Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria...
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    2023 the airport was renamed to honor the astronomer and polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich (Ruđer Josip Bošković, 1711–1787). Dubrovnik Airport consists of...
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    which every cause and effect should be connected to one another. Roger Joseph Boscovich rejected Leibniz take considering that bodies would have discontinuous...
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    then renamed Boscovich Square (Croatian: Poljana Ruđera Boškovića) in honor of the former college's most famous alumnus, Roger Joseph Boscovich. Nicholas...
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  • and likewise he regarded Le Sage's theory as highly speculative. Roger Joseph Boscovich pointed out, that Le Sage's theory is the first one, which actually...
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    Clavius, Francisco Suarez, Roberto Bellarmino, Mutio Vitelleschi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Francisco de Toledo. In some cases,...
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    February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (b. 1708) February 13 Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist, diplomat (b. 1711) Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes...
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  • According to Serbian sources, the Bošković brotherhood (ancestors of Roger Joseph Boscovich), originally surnamed Pokrajčić, had settled the village from the...
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  • professional wrestler Jeff Hardy Nera Bošković, Great granddaughter of Roger Joseph Boscovich Nera Plateau, Russian Far East Nera Gorge-Beușnița National Park...
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  • causal determinism. Roger Joseph Boscovich developed a more physical version of the same thought experiment, known as Boscovich's demon, based on position...
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    method of least absolute deviation. It was notably performed by Roger Joseph Boscovich in his work on the shape of the Earth in 1757 and by Pierre-Simon...
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  • reforms and maintained until the 20th century. Ruđer Josip Bošković (Roger Joseph Boscovich) 1711–1787 Ragusan A physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher...
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  • Rodolphus Agricola Roger-Pol Droit Roger Bacon Roger Caillois Roger de Piles Roger Fry Roger Garaudy Roger Joseph Boscovich Roger Marston Roger North (17th century)...
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  • Roger Joseph Boscovich, born Ruđer Bošković, was an 18th-century scientist. Boscovich may also refer to: Boscovich (crater) on the Moon Bošković (surname)...
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    as inventing one of the first prototypes of an analog computer. Roger Joseph Boscovich was a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician and polymath...
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