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Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier FRS (also
spelled Faccio or Facio; 16
February 1664 – 10 May 1753) was a mathematician,
natural philosopher, astronomer, inventor...
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Duillier (French pronunciation: [dɥije]) is a muni****lity in the
district of Nyon in the
canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Duillier is
first mentioned in...
- criticism. He was
close to the
Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier. In 1691,
Duillier started to
write a new
version of Newton's Principia, and corresponded...
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Duillier Castle is a
castle in the muni****lity of
Duillier of the
Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a
Swiss heritage site of
national significance...
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Characters include Sir
Isaac Newton,
Gottfried Leibniz,
Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier,
William of Orange,
Louis XIV of France,
Oliver Cromwell,
Peter the Great...
- is a
kinetic theory of
gravity originally proposed by
Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier in 1690 and
later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748. The
theory proposed...
- 1943 to
avoid getting arrested by the Germans. He died at his home in
Duillier, Switzerland, in 1952, aged 73. When Seán
Lester replaced him as secretary-general...
- were
developed to make
better use of sunlight. In 1699,
Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier even
suggested using a
tracking mechanism which could pivot to
follow the...
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bearings were
invented in 1704 for use in
watches by
Nicolas Fatio de
Duillier,
Peter Debaufre, and
Jacob Debaufre, who
received an
English patent for...
- Jean-Christophe
Fatio de
Duillier (17
November 1656 – 18
October 1720) was a
Genevan engineer, politician, and
natural philosopher, who
became Fellow of...
