Bonaventura Cavalieri
1598 CE–1647 CE · Milan
Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (Latin: Bonaventura Cavalerius; 1598 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri's principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus.
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- Francis Bacon· 1561 CE–1626 CE
- Xu Guangqi· 1562 CE–1633 CE
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- Johannes Kepler· 1571 CE–1630 CE
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- Willebrord Snell· 1580 CE–1626 CE
- Marin Mersenne· 1588 CE–1648 CE
- Pierre Gassendi· 1592 CE–1655 CE
- René Descartes· 1596 CE–1650 CE
- Otto von Guericke· 1602 CE–1686 CE
- Pierre de Fermat· 1607 CE–1665 CE
- Evangelista Torricelli· 1608 CE–1647 CE
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli· 1608 CE–1679 CE
- Thomas Sydenham· 1624 CE–1689 CE
- Robert Boyle· 1627 CE–1691 CE
- Marcello Malpighi· 1628 CE–1694 CE
- Christiaan Huygens· 1629 CE–1695 CE
- Isaac Barrow· 1630 CE–1677 CE
- Jan Swammerdam· 1637 CE–1680 CE
- James Gregory· 1638 CE–1675 CE
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- Chongzhen Emperor· 1611 CE–1644 CE
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- Shunzhi Emperor· 1638 CE–1661 CE
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