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    Oronce Fine (or Finé; Latin: Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus; Italian: Oronzio Fineo; 20 December 1494 – 8 August 1555) was a French mathematician, cartographer...
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    Schöner/Finé cosmography. Armand Rainaud noted in 1893 that this appellation, "without doubt comes from the globes of Schoener and the maps of Oronce Fine"....
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  • Hapgood also examined a 1531 map by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé (aka Oronteus Finaeus). In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, he reproduces...
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    a globe was probably on Johannes Schöner's lost 1523 globe on which Oronce Fine is thought to have based his 1531 double cordiform (heart-shaped) map...
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    cent. The map of the world by the French mathematician and cosmographer Oronce Fine published in 1531 shows a large promontory attached to the continent...
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    Latinized for Oronce Finé, a French mathematician and cartographer who died in 1555. Because Fool's Cap was published so long after Finé's death, the inscription...
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    Moon's near side. It was named after 16th century French mathematician Oronce Fine. It is located to the northwest of the prominent ray crater Tycho, and...
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    attributed convincingly. He painted a portrait of the mathematician Oronce Finé in 1530, when Fine was thirty-six years old, but the portrait is now known only...
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  • American mathematician Oronce Finé (1494–1555), French mathematician and cartographer Ralph Adam Fine (1941–2014), American judge Reuben Fine (1914–1993), American...
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    Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet André Chénier Thomas Dempster Oronce Finé William Fowler Jean de Gerson Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance...
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    promontory on Oronce Fine's world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo's Greater Java with Fine's Regio Patalis...
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  • herbal printed in Britain. First woodcut map of France, produced by Oronce Finé. approx. date – Paracelsus discovers the analgesic properties of diethyl...
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    Luiz Rodrigues. 1542. De erratis Orontii Finæi (About the errors of Oronce Fine), (1546). Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera, (1566). Expanded, corrected...
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  • Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (d. 305 AD), saints Orontius Finnaeus (Oronce Finé) (1494-1555), French cartographer and mathematician Places Orontius (crater)...
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    a Burgundian nobleman, Carthusian monk and Archbishop of Tarentaise Oronce Finé (1494–1555), mathematician and cartographer Jean-Antoine Morand (1727–1794)...
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    Year subglacial studies, but only in regards to an unrelated map by Oronce Fine (Hapgood 1966, pp. 224–225). McIntosh 2000a, pp. 15–18. McIntosh 2000a...
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    de Gennes Émile Deschanel Georges Duby Georges Dumézil Lucien Febvre Oronce Fine Michel Foucault Ferdinand André Fouqué Etienne Fourmont Marc Fumaroli...
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  • first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947. 1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555) 1496 – Joseph ha-Kohen...
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    Cattigara on the west coast of South America. In this he was followed by Oronce Fine and the makers of the Dieppe Maps but eventually geographers and cartographers...
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  • nobleman (b. 1230) 1533 – Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (b. 1494) 1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (b. 1494) 1588 – Alonso Sánchez...
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    map was a slightly modified copy of a 1531 world map (and its text) by Oronce Fine. The double cordiform projection, may well have been chosen because of...
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    the 16th century and into the 17th century. It was used by Mercator, Oronce Fine, and Ortelius in the late 16th century for maps of Asia and Africa. By...
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  • 1580), Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem Oronce Finé (France, 1494–1555) Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, 1508–1555)...
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    Similar maps also based on the Reuleaux triangle were published by Oronce Finé in 1551 and by John Dee in 1580. Many guitar picks employ the Reuleaux...
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    thought to be 4,000 years old. The first map of France was drawn by Oronce Finé and printed in woodcuts in 1525. It testifies to the will of the political...
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    Woodcut from 1536 by Oronce Finé showing the Werner projection...
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    Waldseemüller 1508 Pietro Coppo 1520 D. Ribeiro 1529 (Padrón Real) Oronce Fine 1531 Oronce Fine 1536 Mercator 1538 Jean Rotz 1542 Giacomo Gastaldi 1548 File:Theatrum...
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    belonged to the order of St. Anthony. He studied under Oronce Fine and wrote on geometry and exposed Fine publishing a few books Opera Geometrica (1554), Logistica...
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  • first works, in Latin, were published by Sebastian Münster in 1531 and Oronce Fine in 1532, rapidly followed by books in French. At the end of the 17th...
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    Australis, depicted on the 1531 world map of the royal cosmographer, Oronce Fine. France-Asia relations Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean Rotz...
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