…During this time, speculations about infinity were occasionally made, and the Englishman R. Bacon preached that mathematics was an important subject, and that experiments were important in the study of natural science. Nicole Oresme, who became the Bishop of Lisieux, represented temperature changes on a graph and introduced fractional exponents, which were cutting-edge ideas at the time. Logarithms were discovered in the mid-16th century by the Englishmen J. Napier and Henry Briggs (1556-1631), and Briggs also assisted Kepler in his calculations, which will be discussed later. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Orem, N." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…その間にも,ときには無限についての考察がなされ,イギリスのR.ベーコンは数学が重要な学問であることや,自然学の研究では実験がたいせつであることを説いた。リジューの司教となったニコル・オレームNicole Oresmeが温度の変化をグラフに表したり,分数指数を導入したりしたのは,当時としては先端的な発想であった。対数が発見されたのは16世紀の中葉になってからイギリスのJ.ネーピアやブリッグスHenry Briggs(1556‐1631)によるもので,ブリッグスは後述するケプラーの計算にも協力した。… ※「オレーム,N.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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