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[[File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|thumb|175px|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."<br>—J. Robert Oppenheimer | [[File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|thumb|175px|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."<br><br>—J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967)]] | ||
• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician '''[[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]]''' Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (''jadhb''): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"? | • ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician '''[[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]]''' Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (''jadhb''): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"? | ||
• ... that mathematician [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] formalized the definition of the [[continuity of a function]], proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals? | |||
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• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (jadhb): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?
• ... that mathematician Karl Weierstrass formalized the definition of the continuity of a function, proved the intermediate value theorem and the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, and used the latter to study the properties of continuous functions on closed bounded intervals?