High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nicole Oresme (pronounced , c. 1320–5 – July 11, 1382), also known as Nicolas Oresme, Nicholas Oresme, or Nicolas d`Oresme, was a significant philosopher of the later Middle Ages. He wrote influential works on economics, mathematics, physics, astronomy, philosophy, and theology; was Bishop of Lisieux, a translator, a counselor of King Charles V of France, and probably one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century.