Questions tagged [17th-century]
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Where was statistics taught in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Here is a fragment from Anders Hald's book.
The original meaning of statistics is thus a collection of facts of interest to a statesman. Statistics was used in this sense in Italy in the 16th century,...
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Who was “Urbino d'Aviso” that described how to fold paper into a pentagon?
I have found this in David Wells' "Curious and Interesting Puzzles" (1992), Penguin books, page 36:
"The next problem occurs first in Urbino d'Aviso's treatise on the sphere (1682):
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What was the first “scientific”, non-photographic depiction of Earth as seen from outside of Earth?
For a long time now, I've been thinking about this: when was the first painting, illustration or depiction of any kind where our planet Earth is seen as a sphere in space? Possibly even from the Moon?
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How was the term speed treated in the 16th and 17th centuries?
What did people in the 16th and 17th centuries mean by the term speed? Did they have
$$\text{speed} = \frac{ \text{distance} }{ \text{time} }$$
back then? Or did they have some other notion of speed ...
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Why did 92% of cases of simultaneous discovery in the 17th century end in dispute?
I read on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing :
One of the earliest research journals is the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society, created in the 17th century. At
that ...
