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Stevin Ste·vin

Spelling: [stuh-vahyn]
IPA: /stəˈvaɪn/

Stevin is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in Stevin (einstv).

Definitions for Stevin

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  1. Simon [see-mawn] /ˈsi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.

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Stevin also built a smaller sail vehicle, similar to the one just described, that carried from five to eight persons.

Stevin supposed a chain to be placed over two inclined planes, and to hang down in the manner represented in the figure.

He translated the Portuum investigandorum ratio of Stevin in 1599.

Stevin was a noted mathematician, and also experimented in the construction of wheel vehicles about 1600.

It is interesting to note that Wright translated Stevin's work into English.

Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue.

A curious account of this early project is to be found in the library of the British Museum, under the name "Stevin, 1652."

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