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François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect.
D'Aguilon was born in Brussels. He became a Jesuit in 1586. In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics, in Antwerp, which was intended to perpetuate mathematical research and study in among the Jesuits. This school produced geometers like André Tacquet and Jean Charles della Faille.
His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles (Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens. It was notable for containing the principles of the stereographic and the orthographic projections, and it inspired the works of Desargues and Christiaan Huygens.
He died at Tournai, aged 50.[citation needed]
See also
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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External links
- Faculty.fairfield.edu
- BEIC digital library: François d'Aguilon, Opticorum libri, Antwerpen, Jan Moretus widow & son, 1613.
Further reading
- Morère, J. E. (1970). "Aguilon, François d'". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 81. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
- Kuehni, Rolf G. (2003). "On the Source of d'Aguilon's Arc Color Mixture Diagram" (PDF).
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- 1617 deaths
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