Nicholas Oresme enters Navarre College
1341
The Norman prodigy began his Paris studies in natural philosophy and mathematics under the masters who would shape his thinking about the natural world. Oresme would later translate Aristotle into French, argue that the earth might rotate on its axis, graph functions geometrically, and propose probability arguments against astrology. Few medieval minds anticipated the scientific revolution so vividly.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.