The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with...
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circle)." Kurt Vogel, "Diophantus of Alexandria." in Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com, 2008. Quote: The symbolism that Diophantus...
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Archimedes (redirect from Archimedes scientific achievements)
Archimedes. New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. pp. 85–91.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Rorres, Chris. "Death of Archimedes:...
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Abbas ibn Firnas (category Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world)
(ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 5. Marshall Cavendish Reference. Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim...
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of Henry VIII. John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1563), better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, was essentially the first dictionary of the biography in...
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Jean-Antoine Nollet (category Academic staff of the University of Paris)
(1974). "Nollet, Jean-Antoine". In Gillespie, C. C. (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 145. Retrieved 27 April...
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Al-Farghani (category Year of birth unknown)
shortcut to Asia. List of Iranian scientists and scholars Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1970). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Scribner in New York...
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Diophantus (redirect from Diophantus of Alexandria)
Retrieved August 23, 2022. Kurt Vogel, "Diophantus of Alexandria." in Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com, 2008. Allard, A. "Les scolies...
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Encyclopaedia Iranica Pingree, David E., “Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī,” Dictionary of Scientific Biography, editor-in-chief Charles Coulston Gillispie, New York: Charles...
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Ptolemy (redirect from Ptolemy of Alexandria)
Ptolemaeus)". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 January 2013. Heath, Sir Thomas (1921). A History of Greek Mathematics...
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The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the...
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Otto Hesse (category Academic staff of the University of Königsberg)
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Otto Hesse", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St...
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Drachmann, A. G. (1972). "Hero of Alexandria". In Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 6 (Hachette–Hyrtl). New York:...
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Charles C. (ed.), Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 1, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 413–414. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia...
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Eratosthenes (redirect from Erastothenes of Cyrene)
University Press, 2013. Dicks, D.R. "Eratosthenes", in Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. "Ask an Astronomer"...
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appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography...
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Francis Hauksbee (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
source, hence the one used here. "Hauksbee, Francis". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 24 April 2018. "Fellow Details:...
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Al-Khwarizmi (redirect from Al-Khwarizmi (biography))
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā". In Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. VII. Scribner. pp. 358–365. ISBN 978-0-684-16966-8....
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Étienne Bézout (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
Mathematics Grabiner, Judith (1970–1980). "Bezout, Etienne". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 111–114. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9...
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Spherical Earth (redirect from Curvature of the earth)
D. Pingree: "History of Mathematical Astronomy in India", Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 15 (1978), pp. 533–633 (554f.); Glick, Thomas F., Livesey...
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Ernan (2008). "Robert Bellarmine". In Gillispie, Charles (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Scribner & American Council of Learned Societies....
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Irène Joliot-Curie (category Biography with signature)
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 17 March 2012. Denis Brian (August 2005). The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial...
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André-Marie Ampère (category Biography with signature)
"Ampère". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. United States of America: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1970. ISBN 9780684101149...
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Bartholin's gland (redirect from Greater vestibular glands of Bartholin)
Gillispie (ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography, New York 1970.[page needed]. "Viscera of the Urogenital Triangle". University of Arkansas Medical...
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Muḥammad ibn Mūsā". In Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 7. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-16962-2...
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Calvin Bridges (category History of genetics)
believed to have been a case of syphilis.[citation needed] "Bridges, Calvin Blackman." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. Detroit: Charles...
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Fibonacci (redirect from Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa)
Britannica article "Leonardo of Pisa". "Fibonacci, Leonardo, or Leonardo of Pisa." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (April...
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History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews. Pingree, David (1975). "Śrīdhara". In Gillispie, Charles C. (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography...
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François d'Aguilon (category University of Douai alumni)
William A History of the Society of Jesus. St. Louis: St. Louis Institute, 1972 Gillispie, Charles. C. ed., Dictionary of Scientific biography. 16 vols. New...
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(1971) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Linda Hall Library. Knowles Middleton, W. E. (1973). "Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and the Invention of the...
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