1. Oronce Fine was a French mathematician, cartographer, editor and book illustrator.
19 Facts About Oronce Fine
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Oronce Fine's father in addition to being a physician was a strong student in astronomy.
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Oronce Fine had created many astronomical instruments and published a treatise which was one of the few astronomical incunabula of French origin.
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Oronce Fine's university was known as a leading center at Paris for the study of scholastic philosophy and theology.
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Oronce Fine was known by his peers to be much more than just a mathematician, though.
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Oronce Fine taught at the French College Royal as the first Royal Lecturer in mathematics, he made instruments, and oversaw Paris's printing houses.
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Oronce Fine was influential to the lives of students, particularly Pedro Nunes and Petrus Ramus as well as many others, and inspired them to continue their scholastic endeavors.
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Oronce Fine worked as an illustrator and proof reader for Paris's print houses in hopes relieving the financial strain brought on by his six children and his father's death.
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Oronce Fine was the first mathematics teacher to be a royal lecturer, and popularized mathematical teaching all over France.
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Oronce Fine was tasked with making math more transparent and to reform the curriculum that was being taught in France at the time.
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Oronce Fine was faced with having to incorporate practical branches of math that could be used in other areas like medicine, law, and theology.
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In 1542 Oronce Fine published the astronomy textbook De mundi sphaera, which included woodcut illustrations.
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Oronce Fine described more recent innovations, such as an instrument he called a metheoroscope.
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Oronce Fine constructed an ivory sundial in 1524, which still exists.
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Oronce Fine attempted to reconcile discoveries in the New World with old medieval legends and information regarding the Orient.
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Oronce Fine used the toponym "America" for South America, and thus Marco Polo's Mangi, Tangut and Catay appear on the shores of the present-day Gulf of Mexico.
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Oronce Fine's cosmography was derived from the German mathematician and cosmographer Johannes Schoner.
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The lunar crater Orontius and Finaeus Cove in Antarctica are named after Oronce Fine, using his Latinized name.
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In May 2016, a square named after Oronce Fine was inaugurated in Paris, France, opposite the Ecole Normale Superieure, behind the Pantheon.