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{{Short description|Italian mathematician and physicist (1707–1775)}} | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] ...

This is a '''list of notable Italian scientists''' organized by the era in which they were active. ...tician, author of many of the best books on arithmetic written in the 15th Century ...

...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...

...focused on the [[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric rati ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...s by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], on the use of the golden ratio in art. Another Italian painter, [[Piero della Francesca]], developed [[Euclid]]'s ideas on [[Persp ...

...[[history of Islam]], traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.<ref name=Saliba>{{cite book|last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George ...phor of a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]] began to be applied in 19th-century literature about [[Islamic history]], in the context of the western aesthet ...

...tle= Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late 18th Dynasty |location= Hoboken |publisher= John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 97804717435 ...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} [[Mathematicians]] seek and use [[pattern]]s<ref> ...