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 Burgundian nobleman, Carthusian monk and Archbishop of Tarentaise Oronce Finé (1494–1555), mathematician and cartographer Jean-Antoine Morand (1727–1794)...
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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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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 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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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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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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writer Nathan Fine (1916–1994), American mathematician Oronce Finé (1494–1555), French mathematician and cartographer Ralph Adam Fine (1941–2014), American...
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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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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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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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Pierre Fatou Hervé Faye Charles Fehrenbach Louis Feuillée Agnès Fienga Oronce Finé Camille Flammarion Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion Honoré Flaugergues Jean...
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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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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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Projections also based on the Reuleaux triangle were published by: 1549 – Oronce Finé 1556 – Le Testu 1580 – John Dee 1616 – Nicolaas Geelkercken 1894 – Fiorini...
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Woodcut from 1536 by Oronce Finé showing the Werner projection...
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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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1494 in France Monarch – Charles VIII Francis I of France (died 1547) Oronce Finé, mathematician and cartographer (died 1555) Jean Parmentier, navigator...
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Pérez Barcelona : Base, 2022. Octant projection Leonardo's world map Oronce Finé Henry Harrisse L'esborrany Jose Luis Espejo Perez (14 February 2013)...
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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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was named by Bulgaria after the French cartographer Orontius Finaeus (Oronce Finé, 1494-1555) whose 1531 world map features a vast southern continent named...
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technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Oronce Finé publishes Quadrans astrolabicus in Paris. April 20 – September 5 – Expedition...
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40°22′S 3°58′W / 40.37°S 3.96°W / -40.37; -3.96 (Orontius) 121.02 1935 Oronce Finé (1494–1555) WGPSN Osama 18°37′N 5°16′E / 18.61°N 5.27°E / 18.61; 5...
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insignia is illustrated by the mathematician and cartographer, also French, Oronce Finé, in the volume Giuoco d'armi dei sovrani e stati d'Europa, a didactic...
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Bovelles publishes La Geometrie practique in Paris, with assistance from Oronce Finé. Girolamo Gabuccini publishes the first separate treatise on parasitic...
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prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He was also a physician. Oronce Finé, mathematician and cartographer. Michel Rolle, mathematician, best known...
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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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