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Adam Adamandy Kochański

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He wrote many scientific papers, mainly on mathematics and mechanics, but also on physics, astronomy and philosophy. The best known of his works,
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among them. He was apparently the only one of the contemporary Poles to know elements of the newly invented
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Observationes Cyclometricae by Adam Adamandy Kochański - Latin text with annotated English translation
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Kochański, Adam Adamandy (1685), "Observationes Cyclometricae ad facilitandam Praxin accomodatae",
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Observationes Cyclometricae ad facilitandam Praxin accommodatae
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Kochański cooperated and corresponded with many scientists,
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He began his education in 7: 687:17th-century Polish Jesuits 657:"Kochanski's Approximation" 10: 748: 384:, physicist, clock-maker, 717:Vilnius University alumni 712:People from Lipno County 359:Adam Adamandy Kochański 128:Congregatio de Auxiliis 50:more precise citations. 537: 528:3.14153333870509461863 395:Kochański was born in 322:Catholicism portal 179:Ad maiorem Dei gloriam 604:Fukś, Henryk (2011), 538: 491: 470:, is devoted to the 150:General Congregation 697:Squaring the circle 624:2011arXiv1106.1808F 474:(or alternatively, 472:squaring the circle 423:). 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