Early Modern (15th-18th Century)

This is a partial list of some of the leading Muslims. Major Muslim contributions continued beyond the fifteenth century. Contributions of more than one hundred other major Muslim personalities can be found in several famous publications by Western historians.

This Section of ELibM is devoted to the electronic publication of mathematical works of enduring interest. Among these are the collected works of distinguished mathematicians, as well as other classical works in selected editions.
The works in this Section are published under the auspices of the Electronic Publishing Committee of the EMS and the editions have been prepared by recognized mathematicians or historians.

In questo sito viene presentata l'edizione "elettronica" dell'opera scientifica di Francesco Maurolico (1494-1575).

L'interesse verso la figura e l'opera di Maurolico si è molto sviluppato negli ultimi decenni. In particolare, in seguito a una serie di workshops tenutisi presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Pisa (All'alba della matematica moderna. Francesco Maurolico e il ritorno dei classici, 1993-96), è emersa la necessità di un'edizione completa dei suoi scritti matematici, circa 5000 pagine fra manoscritti e stampe. Si è costituito cosí un gruppo di ricerca, formato da studiosi di vari paesi allo scopo di tentare di condurre a buon fine questo progetto.

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Thomas Wright (1711-1786) of Byers Green, Co Durham, astronomer, architect and antiquary
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METEOROLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS and CONJECTURES. By BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D F. R. S. and acad. reg. Scient. Paris. Soc. etc. Communicated by Dr. PERCIVAL. Read December 22, I784.,
T H E R E seems to be a region higher in the air over all countries, wbere it is always winter, where frost exitfls continua1ly, fince, in the midf of fummer on the furface of the earth, ice falls often from above in the form of hail. Haiftones, of the great weight we fometimes find them, did not probably acquire their mag nitude before they began to dercend. The air, being eight hundred times rarer tnan water, is unable to fupport it but in the fhape of vapour a ftate in which its particles are feparated. As foon as they are condenfed by the cold of the upper region, fo as to form a drop, that drop begins to fa11. If it freezes into a grain

An unusually fine collection of manuscripts representing primarily British and American literary, political, and historical figures has been received from a number of donors. These include letters from Mms. de Sévigné, Voltaire, George III, Virginia Woolf, Sherwood Anderson, and John Steinbeck

SCIENTIST, inventor, innovator, spy, soldier of fortune--admired, despised, honored, vilified--Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, a New Englander by birth: Who was this man? If you were to saunter along the walkway from the vicinity of Observatory Hill on the Dartmouth College campus toward the rear entrance at the second level of Fairchild Tower or hasten to class along the corridor on the main level of Wilder Laboratory, you would see, straight ahead, a colorful mosaic portraying this unusual character and his unique contributions to science and society. This artistic creation was commissioned by Sanborn Conner Brown 1935, and executed by David P. Holleman of Lexington, Massachusetts. It now hangs in the tower of the Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center, along with paintings, sculptures, and photomurals, among instruments and apparatus from the Dartmouth College Collection of Historical Scientific Apparatus.

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