James Gregory
1638 CE–1675 CE · The Manse, Drumoak Kirk, Drumoak
James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions. In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis (1668) Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus (stated from a geometric point of view, and only for a special class of the curves considered by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow.
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- Otto von Guericke· 1602 CE–1686 CE
- Pierre de Fermat· 1607 CE–1665 CE
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- Marcello Malpighi· 1628 CE–1694 CE
- Christiaan Huygens· 1629 CE–1695 CE
- Isaac Barrow· 1630 CE–1677 CE
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek· 1632 CE–1723 CE
- Christopher Wren· 1632 CE–1723 CE
- Robert Hooke· 1635 CE–1703 CE
- Jan Swammerdam· 1637 CE–1680 CE
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