We have already authorized all of our resources to coordinate with the French in trying to discover where the plane went down and to find as much information as possible.

WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

Before Galileo began running balls down an inclined plane to measure changes in velocity, and before Descartes developed his coordinate system, the German Jesuit Christoph Clavius, designed the mathematics curriculum for the major universities of Europe.

FORBES: A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution