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William of Heytesbury, the Glossary

William of Heytesbury, or William Heytesbury, or William de Heytisbury, called in Latin Guglielmus Hentisberus or Tisberus (c. 1313 – 1372/1373), was an English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow.^[1]

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14th-century English mathematicians

Adam de Toneworth

Adam de Toneworth (also Toueworth or Towworth) was an English medieval university chancellor. William of Heytesbury and Adam de Toneworth are chancellors of the University of Oxford.

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Anthony Kenny

Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny (born 16 March 1931) is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor.

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Continuum (set theory)

In the mathematical field of set theory, the continuum means the real numbers, or the corresponding (infinite) cardinal number, denoted by \mathfrak.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Infinite divisibility

Infinite divisibility arises in different ways in philosophy, physics, economics, order theory (a branch of mathematics), and probability theory (also a branch of mathematics).

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Kinematics

Kinematics is a subfield of physics and mathematics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of chancellors of the University of Oxford

This is a list of chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment. William of Heytesbury and list of chancellors of the University of Oxford are chancellors of the University of Oxford.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Merton College, Oxford

Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Norman Kretzmann

Norman J. Kretzmann (4 November 1928 – 1 August 1998) was a professor of philosophy at Cornell University who specialised in the history of medieval philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

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Oxford Calculators

The Oxford Calculators were a group of 14th-century thinkers, almost all associated with Merton College, Oxford; for this reason they were dubbed "The Merton School".

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Sophist

A sophist (sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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William de Remmyngton

William de Remmyngton (also Remmington) was an English medieval monk and university chancellor. William of Heytesbury and William de Remmyngton are chancellors of the University of Oxford and English academic biography stubs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Heytesbury

Also known as De Heytisbury, Guilelmus Hentisberus, Guillelmus de Heytesbury, Hentisberus, Heytisbury, Tisberus, William Heytesbury, William de Heighterbury, William de Hetisbury, William de Heytisbury.