Medieval · c. 1320–1382
Who influenced Nicole Oresme?
Influences
Bishop-mathematician who graphed motion and let the Earth spin in thought.
Nicole Oresme was influenced by Jean Buridan. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Nicole Oresme?
Nicole Oresme was a French philosopher of the later Middle Ages and one of the most original thinkers of 14th-century Europe.
He wrote on economics, mathematics, physics, astronomy and theology, translated texts, served as counsellor to King Charles V of France and became Bishop of Lisieux.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Nicole Oresme?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Jean Buridan c. 1300–1361
The line of teachers behind Nicole Oresme
The longest documented line of influence ending at Nicole Oresme runs 17 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Nicole Oresme
Indirect influences
- Through Jean Buridan: William of Ockham
Contemporaries of Nicole Oresme
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nicole Oresme, with no direct line between them.
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Julian of Norwich c. 1342–1416
Nicole Oresme by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 50
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 43 — #46 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Nicole Oresme
- Who influenced Nicole Oresme?
- Jean Buridan.
- Who did Nicole Oresme influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Nicole Oresme.
- When did Nicole Oresme live?
- c. 1320–1382. The map files Nicole Oresme under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Nicole Oresme card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Nicole Oresme in 43 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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