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Born 1548 • Brugge • Belgium
Died 1620 (aged 72) • The Hague • Leiden • Netherlands
Notable Works “De Beghinselen der Weeghconst” • “La Disme” • “La Thiende”
Subjects Of Study decimal fraction • gravity • statics

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John Napier
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Blaise Pascal
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Werner Heisenberg
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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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John von Neumann
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Giordano Bruno
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Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
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Euclid
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