The French Clergyman scientist, economist, and translator Nicholas of Oresme (ca. 1320-1382) is best known for his treatise on money, "De moneta," and for his services to King Charles V of France. Nicholas of Oresme was born at Allemagne in Normandy....

The French Clergyman scientist, economist, and translator Nicholas of Oresme is best known for his treatise on money, De moneta, and for his services to King Charles V of France. Nicholas of Oresme was born at Allemagne in Normandy. Little is known of...

. During the 12th century, improvised and composed or notated vocal polyphonic music began to take on a distinct stylistic change that ultimately divided it into two types. In discant, one or more parts were added mostly note-against-note to a...

(ca. 1320/25–1382). A writer known mainly for his mathematical, scientific, and economic treatises and for his vernacular translations of Aristotle. Educated in arts and theology at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, Oresme was in 1356...

1323-1382 French Mathematician Nicole d'Oresme, sometimes referred to as Nicole Oresme or Nicholas of Oresme, pioneered the use of fractional exponents, and developed a type of coordinate geometry centuries before René Descartes...

c. 1325-1382 French mathematician who developed an early type of coordinate geometry and discussed Earth's rotation. In Questiones super libros Aristotelis de anima (c. 1370), Oresme addressed Aristotle's ideas concerning the...

Nicolas Roeg Op het nieuwe label van de Filmfreak, Mæ lstrom, zijn drie dvd's uitgegeven die mooi met elkaar verbonden zijn. In 1969 maakten Donald Cammell en voormalig cameraman Nicolas Roeg de cultklassieker Performance, met Edward Fox en Mick Jagger. Roeg ging zijn...

Denby Richards talked with the new BBC Young Musician of the Year Watching the semi-finals and then the Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year I felt certain that Nicola Benedetti would be the winner. While all the players were...