Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...
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Poncelet is the remains of a lunar impact crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon. It lies to the east-northeast of the crater Pascal...
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The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz. It roughly doubled the efficiency...
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Giant spiny skink (redirect from Poncelet's helmet skink)
The giant spiny skink or Poncelet's helmet skink (Tribolonotus ponceleti) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the...
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Rome in 1880 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1880 Poncelet Prize in 1883. Honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg in 1882...
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Poncelet's giant rat or Poncelet's naked-tailed rat (Solomys ponceleti) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on Bougainville Island...
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groups, was published in 1870; this treatise won for Jordan the 1870 prix Poncelet. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1920 in Strasbourg. The asteroid...
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and algorismic methods.[citation needed] To Poncelet's French contemporaries, it was something new. Poncelet used it, not for any applied purpose, but as...
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general theorems. During the early 19th century the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Lazare Carnot and others established projective geometry as an independent...
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of negative curvature. For his cumulative work, he was awarded the Prix Poncelet in 1898. After the Dreyfus affair, which involved him personally because...
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Poncelet was a French Navy Redoutable-class submarine of the M6 series commissioned in 1932. She participated in World War II, first on the side of the...
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Bicentric polygon (section Poncelet's porism)
"Poncelet's Porism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PonceletsPorism.html Flatto, Leopold (2009), Poncelet's Theorem...
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Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy. Minneanpolis: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-8006-9796-9. Poncelet, Albert (1910). "St. Irenaeus" . In Herbermann, Charles...
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of the Order of the Crown (Württemberg). 1869 Mayer received the prix Poncelet. The Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium and the Robert-Mayer-Volks- und Schulsternwarte...
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of Gabon, in which she damaged the Vichy French submarine Poncelet so severely that Poncelet scuttled herself. After training duty in 1944 and 1945, Milford...
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reinforcements arrived on the Cap des Palmes, escorted by the submarine Poncelet: a troop of marines from the aviso Bougainville and the defence of Port-Gentil...
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Luxembourgish actress and dancer. Sometimes she used the stage name Ria Poncelet. She started her career as an acrobat and played in nearly 30 German films...
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and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet, an amalgam of Sonnier and Willie. Her book was also adapted as an opera...
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vapeur (horsepower); based on a 100 kgf⋅m/s standard, it was called the poncelet and was abbreviated p. Tax or fiscal horsepower is a non-linear rating...
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universal joint. By 1845, the French engineer and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet had analyzed the movement of the universal joint using spherical trigonometry...
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Development of the Canon of the New Testament. Retrieved 4 March 2009. Poncelet, Albert (1910). "St. Irenaeus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York City: Robert...
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80665 N). The hyl is a unit of mass equal to 1 kgf⋅m−1⋅s2 (9.80665 kg). The poncelet (p) is a unit of power equal to 1 kgf⋅m⋅s−1 (980.665 W). The technical...
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London: Blackie Academic. ISBN 978-0412298004. Dulieu C, Moll M, Boudrant J, Poncelet D (2000). "Improved performances and control of beer fermentation using...
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sections (and related shapes) by mathematicians such as Leibniz, Kepler, and Poncelet. The concept was an early attempt at describing, through geometry rather...
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Calculating Engines. New York: Dover Publications. xxxiv. ISBN 0486200124. Poncelet, Jean-Victor, Travaux de la Commission Française. L’Exposition Universelle...
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PMID 10231034. Ducarme, G; Uzan, M; Hugues, J; Cedrindurnerin, I; Poncelet, C (October 2006). "Management of hydrosalpinx before or during in vitro...
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Lebrun (1871–1950) Robert Schuman (1886–1963) Jack Lang (1939–) Christian Poncelet (1928–) (French politician, President of the Senate 1998–2008) Aurélie...
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integers: the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history. Running Press. pp. 1041–87. ISBN 978-0-7624-1922-7. McElroy, Tucker (2005). A to Z of...
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Soldier in Warsaw, with the inscription SMOLENSK 17 VIII 1812. Jean-Victor Poncelet Jakob Walter Bodart 1908, p. 436. Clodfelter 2017, p. 164. Chandler 1996...
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northeast inner wall. Just to the north of Pascal is Poncelet C, a satellite crater of the lava-flooded Poncelet to the east. The rim of this crater is bisected...
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