Nicole Oresme
Nicole Oresme | |
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Portrait of Nicole Oresme: Miniature from Oresme's Traité de l'espère, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, fonds français 565, fol. 1r. | |
| Born | 1 January 1325 Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 11 July 1382 (aged 57) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | College of Navarre (University of Paris) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Medieval philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Nominalism |
| Institutions | College of Navarre (University of Paris) |
| Main interests | Natural philosophy, astronomy, theology, mathematics |
| Notable ideas | Rectangular co-ordinates, first proof of the divergence of the harmonic series, mean speed theorem |
Nicole Oresme (/ɔːˈrɛm/; French: [nikɔl ɔʁɛm]; 1 January 1325 – 11 July 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d'Oresme, was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astrology, astronomy, philosophy, and theology. He was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and one of the most original thinkers of 14th-century Europe.