Nicolas Fatio de Duillier FRS (also spelled Faccio or Facio; 16 February 1664 – 10 May 1753) was a mathematician, natural philosopher, astronomer, inventor...
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of Geneva in 1647. Pierre Fatio was a cousin and contemporary of mathematician and inventor Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Fatio enrolled at the University...
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Fatio is a surname, and may refer to: Francis Philip Fatio, 18th–19th-century Swiss colonist of Florida Jean-Christophe Fatio de Duillier, 17th–18th-century...
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Le Sage's theory of gravitation (section Fatio)
gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748. The theory...
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Georges-Louis Le Sage (section Fatio)
gravitation; a treatise on final causes; a biographical note on Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. However, some of them were posthumously published by his pupil...
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The Baroque Cycle (redirect from Moseh de la Cruz)
"modern". Characters include Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, William of Orange, Louis XIV of France, Oliver Cromwell, Peter...
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and criticism. He was close to the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. In 1691, Duillier started to write a new version of Newton's Principia...
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mechanical explanation, and was developed for the first time by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690, and re-invented, among others, by Georges-Louis Le Sage...
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watches. Jewel bearings were invented in 1704 for use in watches by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Peter Debaufre, and Jacob Debaufre, who received an English patent...
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English inventor (d. 1729) February 26 – Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician (d. 1753) March 4 – Juan de Esteyneffer, Moravian German lay Jesuit...
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bearings, introduced in England in 1702 by the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, also came into use for quality watches during this period. Watches...
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Baillie, Clutton & Ilbert 1969, p. 280. "Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753)". Famous Watchmakers. Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie. 2019. Archived from...
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of time, the deterioration of his relations with his protégé Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Newton documented the first performed alchemy experiment during...
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Newton had almost severed connections with one would-be editor, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and another, David Gregory seems not to have met with his approval...
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Clockmaker of the city Ulm, longcase clock. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753), Swiss mathematician, Duillier, drilled rubies. Bernardo Facini (1665–1731)...
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Other sources state that it was first explained this way by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, in 1684, whom Cassini advised to study the zodiacal light. The...
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there was no reason to suspect Leibniz's good faith. In 1699, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the zodiacal light...
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he was able to meet several famous people like John Locke and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Newton was able to form life-long bonds with these two figures...
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opera composer and conductor Nicolas Faccio (1664–1753), Swiss mathematician; alternative name for Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Ricardo Faccio (1907–1970)...
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walls were developed to make better use of sunlight. In 1699, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier even suggested using a tracking mechanism which could pivot to...
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took Val de Barre (Nîmes) from royalist Count de Broglie. February: Count de Broglie relieved of his duties and replaced by Field-Marshal de Montrevel...
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Quicksilver (novel) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Fellow of the Royal Society, and diplomat for the House of Stuart. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Judge Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor of England Robert Hooke, English...
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History of gravitational theory (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
gravitation is the result of bodies emitting waves in the aether. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1690) and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1748) proposed a corpuscular...
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1660s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
English inventor (d. 1729) February 26 – Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Swiss mathematician (d. 1753) March 4 – Juan de Esteyneffer, Moravian German lay Jesuit...
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of the Académie de Genève from 1679 to 1681. Among Chouet's students were the astronomer and mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, as well as polygraphs...
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higher than the earlier trigonometric measurement of Mont Blanc by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, and made the Mont Blanc the highest peak in Europe. Deluc also...
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of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Antoine Favre-Salomon Edmond H. Fischer (nobel prize), describing...
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history of elliptic functions, and the re-publication of a paper by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier on the cause of gravitation. Under his supervision many dissertations...
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Jean-Christophe Fatio de Duillier (17 November 1656 – 18 October 1720) was a Genevan engineer, politician, and natural philosopher, who became Fellow...
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(1660–1718) John Clayton (1657–1725) Joannes Adamus Stampfer (d. 1743) Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664–1753) "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship...
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