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• ... that philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio (7 November 1509 – 2 October 1588) expressed anti-Aristotelian views which angered Church authorities; and that while Telesio's theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed the scientific method?

• ... that mathematician Édouard Lucas (4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) studied the Fibonacci sequence, and that the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him?