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The year 1700 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Simon Marius was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. He is most known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, and his publication of his discovery led to charges of plagiarism.
James Gregory FRS was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.
Paul Guldin was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution. Guldin was noted for his association with the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. Guldin composed a critique of Cavalieri's method of Indivisibles.
The year 1762 in science and technology involved some significant events.
The year 1706 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Abu Nasri Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq al-Jaʿdī was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work with the spherical sine law.
The year 1710 in science and technology involved some significant events.
The year 1616 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Johan Philip Lansberge was a Flemish Calvinist Minister, astronomer and Mathematician. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius.
Thomas Harriot, also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is attributed. Thomas Harriot was also recognized for his contributions in navigational techniques, working closely with John White to create advanced maps for navigation. While Harriot worked extensively on numerous papers on the subjects of astronomy, mathematics and navigation, he remains obscure because he published little of it, namely only The Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588). This book includes descriptions of English settlements and financial issues in Virginia at the time. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to the British Isles. Harriot was the first person to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope, on 5 August 1609, about four months before Galileo Galilei.
Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khojandi was a Muslim Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory, near the city of Ray, in Iran.
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī was an Iranian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age.
Guidobaldo del Monte, Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century.
Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.
Hippocrates of Chios was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer, and astronomer.
Zenodorus was an ancient Greek mathematician.
Edmund Frederick Robertson is a professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
William Braikenridge (c.1700–1762) was a Scottish mathematician and cleric, a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1752.
Xu Yue was a second-century mathematician, born in Donglai, in present-day Shandong province, China. Little is known of his life except that he was a student of Liu Hong, an astronomer and mathematician in second century China, and had frequent discussions with the Astronomer-Royal of the Astronomical Bureau.