Oresme

/ ɔrɛm /

noun

1. OresmeNicole d'?13201382MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: economistSCIENCE: mathematicianRELIGION: clergyman Nicole d' (nikɔl). ?1320–82, French economist, mathematician, and cleric: bishop of Lisieux (1378–82)

Example Sentences

However, when Oresme tried to sum the terms in the sequence, he realized that the sums got larger and larger and larger.

From Literature

“The two of them are still there,” Mario Gonzalez, 65, said Wednesday morning as he dropped off a bouquet of flowers for his longtime friend Oresme Gil Guerra, who he grew up with in Cuba, and his wife, Betty Guerra.

From Los Angeles Times

Oresme, exceptionally, held that the distance from Africa to India going west was probably less than the distance going east, so he evidently held that there were areas of dry land across more than 180 degrees of the joint sphere of earth and water near the equator, and thus that there were, as a limit case, true antipodes there; but he maintained there could be be no antipodes for higher latitudes as at least half the sphere of the earth must be covered in water.

From Literature

As it happens, Oresme’s text was never published, and cannot have circulated widely because it was written in French.

From Literature

If we look back to the Parisian philosophers of the fourteenth century, for example, to Oresme, Buridan, John of Saxony and Pierre d’Ailly, we find ourselves in a world where scholars reported each others’ arguments but failed to record who originated any particular line of argument, so that historians still cannot write the history of the school of Paris in terms of who influenced whom; being first was not what mattered to fourteenth-century philosophers.

From Literature