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    Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (Latin: Bonaventura Cavalerius; 1598 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his...
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  • Cavalieri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647), Italian mathematician Caterina Cavalieri...
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    In geometry, Cavalieri's principle, a modern implementation of the method of indivisibles, named after Bonaventura Cavalieri, is as follows: 2-dimensional...
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    adds a second angular coordinate. Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Bonaventura Cavalieri independently introduced the system's concepts in the mid-17th century...
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  • work was a treatise, the origin being Kepler's methods, written by Bonaventura Cavalieri, who argued that volumes and areas should be computed as the sums...
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    century, Bonaventura Cavalieri applied the philosophy of modern integral calculus to calculate the volume of any object. He devised Cavalieri's principle...
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    later at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Castelli introduced Bonaventura Cavalieri to Galileo, leading to extensive correspondence between the latter;...
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    mathematician and clergyman from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained...
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    in Rome, Torricelli became also the student of the mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri, with whom he became great friends. It was in Rome that Torricelli...
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    In calculus, Cavalieri's quadrature formula, named for 17th-century Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri, is the integral ∫ 0 a x n d x = 1 n +...
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  • been attributed to Laurent Cassegrain, but was already known to Bonaventura Cavalieri in 1632 and Marin Mersenne in 1636. Cartesian duality: Named for...
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    1674) December 24 – Margaret Stuart, Scottish princess (d. 1600) Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647) Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in...
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    credit of the discovery as he kept his method for his own use, while Bonaventura Cavalieri published a similar method which he independently invented. Another...
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    by Niccolò Zucchi and James Gregory and theoretical designs by Bonaventura Cavalieri, Marin Mersenne, and Gregory among others Hall, A. Rupert (1992)...
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    the existence of indivisibles. Guarini comments on the works of Bonaventura Cavalieri, praising his method of indivisibles. He cites both the objections...
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    Telescope. Allen & Unwin. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-74176-392-8. works by Bonaventura Cavalieri and Marin Mersenne among others have designs for reflecting telescopes...
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    support of the practitioners of the method of indivisibles, including Bonaventura Cavalieri and his students: this method was fiercely opposed by the rival...
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    lives and Cavalieri was present at the artist's death. Tommaso dei Cavalieri was the son of Cassandra Bonaventura and Mario de' Cavalieri. Cavalieri was born...
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  • was a treatise inspired by Kepler's methods published in 1635 by Bonaventura Cavalieri on his method of indivisibles. He argued that volumes and areas...
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    of Siena from 1629 to 1671. Ascanio was a mathematics pupil of Bonaventura Cavalieri. He hosted Galileo in Siena. According to Dava Sobel, Galileo's...
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    in the 16th century prepared the ground for the real continuum. Bonaventura Cavalieri's method of indivisibles led to an extension of the results of the...
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  • first demonstrated in a geometric form by Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri in the early 17th century for all positive integer values of n {\displaystyle...
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    theology, law and mathematics. His mathematics professor in Rome was Bonaventura Cavalieri and in Bologna his mathematics professor was Benedetto Castelli...
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    and Cavalieri's principle, using the method of indivisibles and infinitesimals, paved the way for integral calculus (e.g. Bonaventura Cavalieri solved...
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    designs using convex secondary mirrors have been found in the Bonaventura Cavalieri's 1632 writings describing burning mirrors and Marin Mersenne's 1636...
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  • Cassini (France, 1625–1712) Jacques Cassini (France, 1677–1756) Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598–1647) Anders Celsius (Sweden, 1701–1744) Vincenzo Cerulli...
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    order was suppressed by Pope Clement IX. Angeli was a student of Bonaventura Cavalieri. From 1662 until his death he taught at the University of Padua...
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    who was his teacher; wrote an important work on fluids in motion Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) – Jesuate (not to be confused with Jesuit) known for...
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    he put in a large effort soliciting help and testimonials: from Bonaventura Cavalieri, his patron Sir Charles Cavendish, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes...
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  • Andreotti, Enrico Betti, Vincenzo Brunacci, Cesare Burali-Forti, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Giovanni Ceva, Luigi Fantappiè...
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