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  • | death_date = {{death date and age|1662|8|19|1623|6|19|mf=y}} ...or]]s, the study of [[fluid]]s, and clarified the concepts of [[pressure]] and [[vacuum]] by generalizing the work of [[Evangelista Torricelli]]. Pascal a ...
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  • ...ticle is mostly drawn from Dauben 1979. Grattan-Guinness 1971, and Purkert and Ilgauds 1985 are useful additional sources.</ref> ...itz Schönflies]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> blamed Kronecker's persistent criticism and Cantor's inability to confirm his continuum hypothesis" for Cantor's recurr ...
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  • <!-- Image and caption --> ...=King170>[[Peter J. King|King, P.J.]] ''One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers''. Barron's 2004, p. 170.</ref> As a ...
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  • ...nd age|1783|9|18|1707|4|15|df=y}}<br/><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]: 7 September 1783<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> |field = [[Mathematician]] and [[Physicist]] ...
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  • ...[ethnography]], [[mechanical engineering]], [[Chinese calendar|calendrical science]], [[metaphysics]], [[poetry]] ...ry)|''shi'']], [[Shape of the Universe|universe model]], [[lunar eclipse]] and [[solar eclipse]] theory ...
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  • ...ote>All astronomical quantities vary, both [[Secular phenomena|secularly]] and [[Frequency|periodically]]. The quantities given are the values at the inst | title=General Definitions and Numerical Standards ...
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  • ...on the [[celestial sphere]] were grouped together into [[constellation]]s, and the brightest stars gained proper names. Extensive [[star catalogue|catalog ..., known as a [[Hertzsprung-Russell diagram]] (H–R diagram), allows the age and evolutionary state of a star to be determined. ...
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  • | fields = [[Mathematics]] and [[Physics]] | religion = ...
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