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...>This approach is often favoured by (pure) mathematicians and mathematical physicists.</ref> e.g., the notion, due to [[Bernhard Riemann|Riemann]] and others, th ...al beauty]]), a notion sometimes called "[[Occam's razor]]" after the 13th-century English philosopher [[William of Ockham|William of Occam]] (or Ockham), in ...

...mbursky (ed. 1974) ''Physical Thought from the Presocratics to the Quantum Physicists'' {{ISBN|0-87663-712-8}}</ref> ...l Sambursky (1974) ''Physical thought from the Presocratics to the Quantum Physicists'' {{ISBN|0-87663-712-8}}</ref> ...

...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...

The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...

...irst=Jon |year=2012 |publication-date=2012 |title=Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond |location=Cambridge |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-0-7456-346 ...miltonian mechanics]]). These advances, made predominantly in the 18th and 19th centuries, extended beyond earlier works; they are, with some modification, ...

...actions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios<ref group="Note">ratios of 1 between mag ...irst practical realisation of the metric system came in 1799, during the [[French Revolution]], after the existing system of measures had become impractical ...

.... The problem is indeterminate, but it is made strictly determinate by the century of its utterance and the limit to a man's life. Those born in 1722 (1764–42 ...''The Elements of Algebra'' (1828),{{sfn|Bourdon|1828}} a translation of a French textbook by {{interlanguage link|Louis Bourdon|fr}}, followed by ''Elements ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

...562]. ([[Macquorn Rankine]] in the same year used the same symbol. The two physicists were in correspondence at the time, so that it is difficult to say which of ...ermodynamic work, the caloric theory was, around the end of the eighteenth century, replaced by the "mechanical" theory of heat, which is accepted today. ...

...on has noted that Einstein's reminiscences were probably colored by a half-century of hindsight. Norton lists several problems with Einstein's recounting, bot :2. A 19th century [[Aether theories|aether theorist]] would have had no difficulties with the ...

[[File:NIST-F2 cesium fountain atomic clock.jpg|thumb|NIST physicists Steve Jefferts (foreground) and Tom Heavner with the NIST-F2 caesium founta ...ectroscopy With Coherent Radiation |series=World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics |volume=21 |pages=115–127 |publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC |doi=10.1142/ ...

...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...st 1915"}} She then joined the [[sixth form]] and won the school prize for French in December 1916.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 16 December 1916"}}{{Efn|Dent's siste ...

...ed in heat transfer calculations. It is named after the eighteenth century French physicist [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] (1774–1862), and gives a simple index of t ...mar |title=Pollution Prevention: The Waste Management Approach to the 21st Century |publisher=CRC Press |year=1999 |isbn=1-56670-495-2 |at=section 27, p. 15}} ...

...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...designed by [[Mario Calderara]] and financed by [[Ambroise Goupy]] at the French firm [[Blériot Aéronautique]].<ref>Mario Calderara, Commander Calderara Gla ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...]]s which describe the motion of [[viscous fluid]] substances, named after French engineer and physicist [[Claude-Louis Navier]] and Anglo-Irish physicist an ...