Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum

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In Nicholas Oresme
…mathematics are contained in his Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum (“Treatise on the Configurations of Qualities and Motions”). In this work Oresme conceived of the idea of using rectangular coordinates (latitudo and longitudo) and the resulting geometric figures to distinguish between uniform and nonuniform distributions of various quantities, even…
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